This month PLoS ONE has unveiled an exciting new program. Every month they will highlight the best blog post written about one of the articles published in their journal. To enter, you just need to sign up for ResearchBlogging.org and write about peer-reviewed research on PLoS ONE while following our guidelines.
This month the winner is Ed Yong, whose blog Not Exactly Rocket Science is one of the most prolific blogs on ResearchBlogging.org:
I was blown away by the latest post by Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science (so much so I even e-mailed the link to my Mother):
Ballet postures have become more extreme over time
The blog post, which I hope that you will find time to go and read, as well as a very interesting discussion in the comment thread, describes the research from a recent PLoS ONE article A Dance to the Music of Time: Aesthetically-Relevant Changes in Body Posture in Performing Art
Congratulations, Ed! PLoS’s Bora Zivkovic also had great things to say about the quality of posts on ResearchBlogging.org:
This is the first time I systematically read ONLY the posts aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org and the experience was overwhelming – all the posts are of extremely high quality, suggesting that this service is an excellent filter for the best of what science blogging has to offer. But such universally high standards also made it difficult for me to pick the winner for this month. Every one of the posts could have won and deservedly so.
So congratulations to all our bloggers for maintaining such exceptional standards. Let’s make Bora’s job this difficult every month!
