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Reach out and teach someone
If anyone thinks that the taxpayers who underwrite tens of billions of dollars of scientific research don’t care about getting access to that research, they’re not paying attention. A U.S. petition...
View ArticleCommunity responds to PLoS Biology article on teaching genetics
We’ve been following with interest the ongoing discussion on Twitter in response to Rosie Redfield’s recent Perspectives article in PLoS Biology published earlier this week, in which she argues that we...
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Fractaltastic Evolution
One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have for how species relate to each other in evolutionary time. In a perspective article last year, David...
View ArticleDarwin’s Tangled Bank in Verse
Editor’s note: PLOS Biology is delighted to post this ode to nature on behalf of PLOS cofounder Mike Eisen. My daughter has to memorize a poem for a school performance, and asked me if I knew a good...
View ArticleTranslational Bioinformatics: PLOS Computational Biology presents an...
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce the launch of a new collection of Education articles: “Translational Bioinformatics”. This collection is presented as an online “book” which could...
View ArticleLet’s Make Those Book Chapters Open Too!
Following the launch of ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, a PLOS Computational Biology collection presented as an online book, in December 2012, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Editor-in-Chief Phil...
View ArticleTranslational Bioinformatics: Call for papers
Following the successful launch of the PLOS Computational Biology collection ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, we are delighted to announce the continued development of this collection with a call for...
View ArticleWhat does peer review mean when applied to computer code?
A new experiment by the Mozilla Science Lab seeks to explore the interface between software engineers’ code review and the peer review of scientific articles that include code. At a time when the use...
View ArticleOne Million Views
The Ten Simple Rules series of articles has been one of the unexpected surprises and pleasures arising from the community journal PLOS Computational Biology. That the collection has reached one million...
View ArticleBuilding a community resource: the ISCB Wikipedia Competition
Educating current and future generations of computational biologists is one of the main objectives of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the society has come up with an...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Education at PLOS Computational Biology
In January 2006, Fran Lewitter, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Education Editor, announced the launch of a new Education column in the journal. This new column recognised the need for...
View ArticleUnderstanding allostery, constructing structural pathways and exploring a new...
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for February. The capacity of biological molecular data acquisition is growing faster than our ability to understand the relationships...
View ArticleWhat’s the Most Important Lesson You Learned from a Teacher?
Five mornings a week, Keith gets up before dawn, puts on one of his geekiest bow ties (think Space Invaders, DNA helices, and daVinci’s Vitruvian Man), and drives half an hour down the freeway to teach...
View ArticleFledgling
When the patient jokingly touched my nose, I knew I had muddied the boundaries between us too much and it was too late to go back. (Note: Except for the aforementioned sentence, all of the patient’s...
View ArticleWhite House Appointee Ari Ne’eman on the Power of Autistic Community
Editor’s note: I’ve never been a fan of campaigns that propose to get people talking about important issues by telling them to shut up. (No “Day Without A Gay” in my name, thanks.) That’s why, when I...
View ArticleLike a patient etherized upon a chair
“Is it hot in here, or is it just me?” The patient interrupts himself mid-interview as he shifts in his chair. He’s sitting directly in the afternoon sun. He’s squinting. He fiddles with the zipper...
View ArticleControl
If Harvard had a habit of failing its students, I would have failed my observed patient interview last week. Take a patient history and do a physical exam. It was the same exercise we had been doing...
View ArticleAutism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World
In 2007, the United Nations passed a resolution declaring April 2 World Autism Awareness Day — an annual opportunity for fundraising organizations to bring public attention to a condition considered...
View ArticleWalls
Last Monday I sat in a chilly exam center for eight hours and took a very important test. When I arrived home, I looked at the walls surrounding my desk. They were cluttered with upwards of seventy...
View ArticlePassion and 3D printers reinvent STEM learning
Do the words “science class” evoke unhappy memories of struggling to memorize arcane facts unrelated to anything in the world you cared about? Did your teacher’s mastery of the science only accentuate...
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