Peer review is not a piece of cake
On Monday Jenny Rohn published a blog post Peer review is no picnic that concludes: So the next time you hear someone asserting that scientists aren’t critical, of their own work or that of their...
Martin Fenner
BioMed Central drafts position statement on open data
Last week BioMed Central published a draft position statement on open data (PDF). Iain Hrynaszkiewicz explained the statement on the BioMed Central Blog, including the five Ws of open data: 1. Why make data more open?...
ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy?
This was the title of the session with Geoff Bilder, Gudmundur Thorisson and myself at the Science Online London Conference...
The Great Science Online London Tweetup
The 3rd Annual Science Online London Conference took place last Friday and Saturday. For me it was again a fantastic event. Matt Brown is collecting all blog posts, pictures, videos, etc. over at this Nature Network...
Flipboard: PLoS BLOGs on the iPad
The iPad owners among the PLoS BLOGs readers can use the free Flipboard application to read all the great content that is written by my fellow ploggers PLoGsters (as suggested by David Kroll). In Flipboard simply...
Unmeasurable Science
On Wednesday PLoS BLOGs launched with a splash. We (both PLoS BLOGs as a whole and me individually) got a lot of positive feedback and words of encouragement – so we are off to a good start....