A Little Bit Meta

Episode 2 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where we summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the February 2022 issue of PLoS biology. Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i02 Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, ocean acidification, meta-analysis SHOW NOTES Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries Episode Cover Art - February 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit - Fredrik Jutfelt Cutting Edge (0:43) Pollack R, Cobb M (2022) Are there any good experiments that should not be done? PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001539. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001539 Jargon Jungle (09:11) Journal Club (18:05) Clements JC, Sundin J, Clark TD, Jutfelt F (2022) Meta-analysis reveals an extreme “decline effect” in the impacts of ocean acidification on fish behavior. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001511. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001511 Cell Culture (35:09) Outer Wilds - https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html Bite-Size Discoveries (53:19) Abdill RJ, Adamowicz EM, Blekhman R (2022) Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001536 Chang C-c, Cox DTC, Fan Q, Nghiem TPL, Tan CLY, Oh RRY, et al. (2022) People’s desire to be in nature and how they experience it are partially heritable. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001500. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001500 Finch E, Lowe R, Fischinger S, de St Aubin M, Siddiqui SM, Dayal D, et al. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 antibodies protect against reinfection for at least 6 months in a multicentre seroepidemiological workplace cohort. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001531 Vanderplow AM, Kermath BA, Bernhardt CR, Gums KT, Seablom EN, Radcliff AB, et al. (2022) A feature of maternal sleep apnea during gestation causes autism-relevant neuronal and behavioral phenotypes in offspring. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001502 Otte WM, Vinkers CH, Habets PC, van IJzendoorn DGP, Tijdink JK (2022) Analysis of 567,758 randomized controlled trials published over 30 years reveals trends in phrases used to discuss results that do not reach statistical significance. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001562