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Just to show that we scientists a) have a sense of humour, and b) can laugh at ourselves, here is one of my favourite lists, the Guide to Translating Scientific Papers Into Plain English.

In the continuing drive to make papers as accessible as possible, NPG is now introducing a 'creative commons' licence for the reuse of such genome papers. In particular, users are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the contribution, provided this is for non-commercial purposes...

Ed Yong has written a great post on a new paper on how blue whales snarf up half a million calories in every gulp. The paper is the latest in a series put out by Jeremy Goldbogen of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and his colleagues.

Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web. To explore research trends and connect to other academics in your discipline. Mendeley Desktop organizes your research paper collection and citations.

As PLoS ONE publishes a large number of articles every week, we presume that many of you would appreciate getting your attention drawn to that subset of articles that the media found most interesting.

Fringe ideas often get a poor reception from mainstream scientists, but can still appeal to the public and influence policy debates. Some recent examples of papers that delve into the fringes of science provide a nice example of why not all fringe ideas are created equal.

A US university launches yet another inquiry into research after New Scientist raises further concerns about papers that seem to contain duplicated and manipulated images.

viXra.org is a new site that wants your papers. All of them. Regardless of quality, quantity or sanity, the organizers promise they will post your paper to their site.