February 11, 2025
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05/21/2025
Machine Learning
Time-series visual representations for sleep stages classification
Padovani Ederli and colleagues show visual representations of sleep classification data based on smartwatch data surpass traditional methods that often are reliant on raw data or extracted features, alongside artificial intelligence methods.
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05/14/2025
Communication
Characterisation of facial expressions and behaviours of horses in response to positive and negative emotional anticipation using network analysis
Phelipon and colleagues reveal distinct facial expression profiles indicating positive and negative emotional valence in horses.
05/19/2025
Cancer
Exploring fertility preservation in AYA cancer survivors: Information needs and post-cancer challenges
Vialle and colleagues explore the experiences of fertility preservation and cancer-induced infertility among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, diving into the different provisions, gender specific challenges, and the results post-treatment. This work highlights a need to develop specific information resources for AYA cancer survivors.
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05/14/2025
Archeology
From the jaws of the “Leviathan”: A sperm whale tooth from the Valencina Copper Age Megasite
Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo and colleagues report the finding of a sperm-whale tooth in a Copper Age site in Spain.
Image credit:Fig 2 by Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo et al.,CC BY 4.0
05/19/2025
EveryOne
Editor Spotlight: Rachid Bouharroud
In this interview, PLOS One Academic Editor Rachid Bouharroud discusses the varied benefits of his role as an Academic Editor with PLOS, exciting new developments in his research, and provides three top tips for early-career researchers.
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05/14/2025
The Official PLOS Blog
Updated version of the “How Equitable Is It?” tool for assessing equity in scholarly communication models
PLOS, cOAlition S and Jisc issued this press release regarding the official launch of the "How Equitable Is It?" tool in its updated version following a comprehensive review of community feedback.
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04/14/2025
EveryOne
Editor Spotlight: Eleni Petkari
In this interview, PLOS One Academic Editor Eleni Petkari shares her inspirations, her experience working across multiple countries and the insights this provided regarding different attitudes towards mental health, and her experience collaborating with PLOS One as an Academic Editor.
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05/20/2025
Health Literacy
Association of health literacy with quality of life and health outcomes among school-age children in Japan: A cross-sectional study
Ninohei and colleagues report the impact of family health literacy.
Image credit:Classroom by WOKANDAPIX f,Pixabay
05/27/2025
Ecology
Functional safeguards for conservation: Identifying climate change refugia for frugivorous and nectarivorous birds in a degraded area of Colombia
Sáenz-Jiménez and colleagues report how climate change affects the distribution of birds in Colombia.
Image credit:Fig 6 by Sáenz-Jiménez et al.,CC BY 4.0
05/16/2025
Material Science
Can laboratory-based XAFS compete with XRD and Mössbauer spectroscopy as a tool for quantitative species analysis? Critical evaluation using the example of a natural iron ore
Praetz and colleagues show lab-XAFS is suited for routine analytics.
Image credit:Mineral by György Károly Tóth,Pixabay
05/14/2025
Education
Effective remediation programs for vulnerable students to overcome learning loss
Jacobs and colleagues investigate the effectiveness of learning remediation programs addressing COVID-19 related learning loss in Dutch primary school settings.
Aging in Human Health and Disease
In this collection, PLOS One highlights multidisciplinary research in the area of aging.
Complex Systems in Healthcare
This joint collection of PLOS One and PLOS Complex Systems articles focuses on the use of complex systems research in the healthcare context.
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One Ocean Science Congress 2025
Senior Editor Miquel Vall-Ilosera Camps will be representing PLOS One at this conference in Nice, France, June 3rd-6th 2025.
30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
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7th International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications
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