I've joined the Editorial Board of @PLOSBiology
As an Academic Editor, I encourage people to submit high quality cell biology manuscripts to us.
PLOS Biology is the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences. It supports selective, equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster.
Dans le cadre de l’#OpenAccessWeek 2025, la BU de l'Université Gustave Eiffel met en lumière quelques ressources électroniques entièrement en libre accès. Retrouvez-les, ainsi que les autres ressources électroniques de la BU, sur la liste de A à Z [https://bu.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/ressources_electroniques_a_z]
#episciences
#hal univ.eiffel
#hypotheses
#mirabel
#persee
#theconversation
#doab
#doaj
#plos
https://bu.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/cms/articleview/id/258
Update. In response to this problem (previous post, this thread), some publishers are desk-rejecting papers based on open health datasets. The problem is not the quality of the data, but the absence of additional work to validate findings.
Two reports:
1. "Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets," Science, Oct 8, 2025.
https://www.science.org/content/article/journals-and-publishers-crack-down-research-open-health-data-sets
2. "AI: Journals are automatically rejecting public health dataset papers to combat paper mills," BMJ, Oct 15, 2025.
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2170
(#paywalled)
Agree; other features and modules, such as integration with #PLOS #PublicLibraryOfScience
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uuldy3vsgp44fqidvyr2ifgd/post/3lzki3lyxss2j
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Oh and #PLOS has a #TeXLaTeX template, which is a hard requirement for me. Journals not accepting LaTeX in physics fields is just silly. #PLOS's template is a bit funny though. No provided class, and you're supposed to submit it self-contained by manually pasting-in the auto-generated bibliography and included files, etc and weirdly excluding figures. I wrote a tool that does this automatically:
It seems the academic world thus seems (?) to see #PLOS papers as "lesser quality", because also negative or non-results are allowed.
I never was into any of these reading or citing metrics, #OpenAccess is my top priority. I am funded by public money, so I'd find it unaccptable if my publications were paywalled. None of them have many reads or citations, though... Too niche a subject I guess. 🤷
So I think we should publish good stuff to journals like #PLOS and boost their reputation. 🚀
The current academic publishing system is a terrible mess of quasi-monopolys, ridiculious publishing costs, #PhD's suffering from #publishOrPerish pressure, godawful paywalls, unpaid reviewers, authors waiving rights on their own work, and more...
#PLOS being a nonprofit brings some fresh air into this: They have no interest in accepting only sensational results - just good old peer review.
Interview: #AI, Open Science, and the Future of Research Integrity (Dave Hansen, Exec. Director of the #Authors Alliance Talks with Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS (Public Library of Science))
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/08/04/ai-open-science-and-the-future-of-research-integrity-an-interview-with-alison-mudditt-of-plos/ #PLOS @AuthorsAlliance #openscience #scholcomm
Bluesky and Wikipedia could interact to provide even more, along with #PLoS #PublicLibraryofScience #SharedFacts
#SharedConcepts for #HumanReasoning and #CollectiveBehavior
#OnePlanet #OneWorld #OneSociety
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o6mwalnwq5acb4hkiohurmxr/post/3luvnj6ck6s27
I sent @PLOS a mail with a fix for their #BibTeX style so that @misc entries (e.g. preprints) include a DOI (if any).
I always find it super frustrating when looking through a references list, then finding no DOI for an entry, when there definitely exists one - you see that the journal's bibliography style ignores DOIs for anything but @article etc. Don't really understand why.
Haven't had much success with other journals in this regard. We'll see if #PLOS is better 😀
Man I do hate #PLOS's citation style with only these numbers. You don't see names, you don't see years, no context at all. 😠
Contrary to ... expectations, evolution experiments with microbes recurrently show that the early stages of adaptation often proceed via large-effect, highly pleiotropic mutations [4,5].
Cool paper
#plos #plosbiology #regevolution #pleiotropy #nettwork evolution
Https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002922
Oh that's fun; the Public Library of Science (#PLOS) is posting a job opening for a "fully remote/home-based" position — and those words are a quote from the ad — which also
...requires that you live in one of seven specific US states.
(All of which are on the eastern seaboard ... but not *all* of the eastern-seaboard states....)
Hashtag #Science !
Disappointed in PLOS ONE. Why do they allow this statement, but fail to check if it is actually true?
#PLOS #PLOSONE #PhD #science #academia #publishing #scientificintegrity
Everything is worrying at the moment but something I am wondering is if we should worry about the scientific publishers. Elsevier, Nature, #PLoS, maybe even #BiorXiv and others - is it possible that the US government forces them to either stop publishing, delete some or all of their published papers, or only accept papers that correspond to specific criteria?
Edited because I thought most of these were US-based but they are not.
Please tell me there is nothing to worry about on that front at least..
#Academia #Science #AcademicPublishing
#PLOS warnt vor neuen US-Executive Orders, die die wissenschaftliche #Freiheit und #Integrität gefährden könnten.
Einschränkungen bei #Forschungsthemen, Sprachvorgaben oder das Entfernen wissenschaftlicher Daten untergraben den Fortschritt.
PLOS betont, dass es keine Kompromisse bei der #Qualität und #Transparenz von #Forschung geben wird. 🔬📖
#Wissenschaftsfreiheit #Forschungspolitik #Science #OpenScience #academicmastodon
Update. "PLOS [@PLOS] statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity"
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/
"We are deeply concerned about a range of recent US Executive Orders that collectively have the potential to dismantle the US scientific enterprise as it has existed for the past 70 years…We will not approve changes to terminology or removal of data that compromise the scientific accuracy of content. Requests to remove legitimate authors from manuscripts violate our authorship policies which are grounded in principles of credit, accountability and transparency…We are actively working to understand the evolving implications of these directives and the disruption they have brought…We remain dedicated to the advancement of #OpenScience."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #PLOS #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
#PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity
February 21, 2025
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/ #science #trumpocalypse
https://next.ink/166421/sauver-les-donnees-du-climat-tant-quil-est-encore-temps
Les chercheurs et militants #écologistes américains ont peur d'une nouvelle suppression de #données concernant le #climat stockées par les agences publiques américaines alors que #Trump entame son deuxième mandat
En 2021 des chercheurs dans la revue scientifique #PLOS One, 20 % du site de l'EPA avait été supprimé. Notamment, la page qui rassemblait les ressources d'informations sur le changement climatique, le climat, les mesures d'atténuation et d'adaptation
