PLoS Blog

Jeremy Farrar, from the Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam has published seven articles with PLoS ONE which makes him one of our most frequently published authors.

We had an outage on our PLoS.org domain resources yesterday due to a DNS issue. As a result, www.plos.org and all of the plos.org subdomains were intermittent as well. The issue was addressed promptly but there was a 2-10 hour delay while DNS servers were updated and ~24 hour delay before a comprehensive international DNS update. Most people were able to access www.plos.org within a few hours.

As the month of September is coming to a close, and the topic of the month in PLoS ONE is bats, we decided to end the focus with a Journal Club.

PLoS (in the form of myself) took a little time off last week to attend the press opening of the California Academy of Sciences, and got a sneak peek of their brand new, completely re-designed, and all-around very shiny aquarium, natural history museum, and planetarium.

PLoS Pathogens is getting ready for Prion 2008 (Madrid, Spain, October 8-10), where you’ll find us at Booth 6 in the exhibition area of the Auditorium Hotel.