Nature offers a completely objective and unbiased review of PLoS

A recent naturenews piece by a Declan Butler takes a hard hitting look at the business practices of the Public Library of Science (PLoS). PLoS, as most scientists are aware by now is one of the more obvious examples of the open-access-publishing thing. The Nature empire of science publishing, of course, is an even more obvious standard bearer for the pay-access publishing model.
Since they are in science however, we can expect Nature to be totally objective and to eschew blatantly self-serving editorials and news focus pieces that gratuitously bash the competition. Can’t we?

Mo' Money for the NIH in a Supplemental Appropriations Act

President George W. Bush signed H.R. 2642, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 on June 30th. This little bit of mid-year pork includes, yes, a little sniff for the NIH. Schweet.
[ Agent writedit is all over the case, as one would expect. ]
So what’s the NIH cut? The text of the bill which refers to the NIH says:

Welcome ChemicalBiLOLogy To Science Blogtopia

Please welcome Arlenna’s new blog ChemicalBiLOLogy to the science blogosphere! Arlenna is a biomedical scientists who is starting as a new tenure-track faculty member at a major research university this Fall. As an example of the great work she is already doing on her new blog, check out this outstanding post on how to write a good K99/R00 grant application.