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Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples, which is part of the PLoS Global Ocean Sampling Collection. Please join in the discussion.

Open Students is a new blog for students about open access to research. It is run by Gavin Baker (who also recently joined Peter Suber at Open Access News - Congratulations!) and sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, as part of its student outreach activities.

The blog will cover the issues of Open Science as it affects the college students and will have frequent guest-bloggers (students, librarians, researchers, publishers...) - of which you can be one if you contact Gavin.

Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog.

If you look at any individual post you will see that we added the "e-mail this page" and "Printer-friendly version" buttons on the bottom of each post.

Members of the Rodriguez lab and the Otero lab, both of Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Spain) have just posted their first Journal Club commentary on the PLoS ONE article High-Pass Filtering of Input Signals by the Ih Current in a Non-Spiking Neuron, the Retinal Rod Bipolar Cell.

Check their discussion and join in - respond to their comments or post your own discussions, annotations and ratings and keep the conversation going!

Last week's PLoS ONE article Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur has received a huge and positive response by the news media and bloggers. The story was featured on the radio, on NPR's Morning Edition ('Mesozoic Cow' Rises from the Sahara Desert) and on television, on ABC's Good Morning America.

As of this writing, Google has registered 583 news reports and 1,855 blog posts about Nigersaurus (only three of which, unfortunately, were trackbacked to the article itself). Under the fold is a choice collection of links to some of the most interesting reports and blog posts, but this should not stop you from adding your ratings, discussions and annotations to the article itself.