ICYMI

PLOS has published a lot of great blog content in the past three months, and we don’t expect our readers to be up to date on everything. So, we are starting a new blog series called, ‘In case you missed it (ICYMI)’, a collection of some of the best reads or key announcements from the previous quarter. Without further ado, here you go. Happy reading!

From the Official PLOS Blog:

Extending support for preprint sharing

Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future: Announcing Essay Challenge Winners and Symposium

Open Science Helps Move Your Research Forward

The blog below is by PLOS’ Editorial Director Suzanne Farley. She talks about how publishers have a duty to the trust and integrity of the scientific record to be actively involved in bringing the distinct identities and unique perspectives, knowledge, and diversity of all researchers to the process.

Identity in Peer Review: Looking Forward, Looking Back

The Human Evolution Research Institute: Challenging traditional narratives and fostering a new generation of black women in the palaeosciences

In the blog below, we announce our new policy to mitigate ‘parachute research.’ This occurs when researchers travel to under-resourced communities, conduct their research, and leave, often with little or poor understanding or involvement of the communities they studied, and few direct benefits to local participants.

Announcing a new PLOS policy on inclusion in global research

From Speaking of Medicine and Health:

Another Code Red for Humanity: Global Vaccine Inequity

Beyond Cultural Safety in Palliative Care: How to be an Anti-Racist Palliative Care Clinician

In the blog below, contributing writer Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD., looks upon the growing decolonization movement with mixed feelings and a lot of discomfort.

It’s Time to Decolonize the Decolonization Movement

From Biologue:

5 Recommended Articles from PLOS Biology Associate Editor Richard Hodge

From EveryONE:

IsoBank – Stable Isotope Research + Open Data

From Latitude:

Climate change: the message is clear

In this blog, Emma Archer, PLOS Climate Editor-in-Chief, discusses some of the highlights of the recent IUCN World Conservation Congress.

The Climate-Ecology Nexus at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

Addressing Climate Changes with Indigenous Knowledges and Intercultural Collaborations