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Millions of people still lack safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Recent research across our PLOS Water and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases shows just how urgent and solvable these challenges are when interventions are grounded in evidence, inclusion, and community needs. Across these studies, three priorities emerge: 🌍 Evidence‑driven sanitation planning 📊 Research‑informed evidence collection in crisis settings ⚕️ Inclusive, integrated healthcare systems Together, these approaches can transform WASH interventions and advance global health equity. ➡️ Explore the full set of findings and learn how evidence-based solutions can drive lasting change: https://plos.io/4nJCXsR #WASH #Sanitation #Sustainability

Arctic cultural heritage is disappearing faster than current preservation policies can keep up. New research in PLOS One documents rapid climate‑driven destruction at a 17th‑century whalers’ burial site in Svalbard, including the near total loss of textiles and increasing coastal erosion since the 1980s. These graves preserve rare insights into the health, labour, and lived experiences of early Arctic whalers. The authors call for urgent updates to Arctic heritage management to protect these highly threatened sites before they vanish. Watch the full video and read more: https://plos.io/4v2RUbP

For 20 years, PLOS One has empowered researchers to share rigorous, transparent open science with the world. By focusing on scientific validity, strong methods, ethical practice, and reproducibility, the journal has helped build a global community where research can be shared, examined, and expanded across disciplines. Explore curated open access research and commentaries connecting evidence with real-world questions:: https://plos.io/435vrz7 #PLOSOne #OpenAccess

We are excited to announce that PLOS Global Public Health is now on LinkedIn! Follow our journal to discover open access research that helps advance health equity across all regions of the world ⬇️

As populations age across the globe, the need for essential research that helps us understand aging across the lifespan has never been more urgent. In this preview, Editors‑in‑Chief Jennifer Schrack and Sara Hägg highlight why essential research for aging worldwide is critical and how PLOS Aging and Health will support ethical, impactful, open access science across the lifespan. 🎥 Watch the full video: https://plos.io/3PbPybv #Aging #Research #AgingAndHealth

Join us at #BiblioCon26 in Berlin, 19–22 May 🤝 PLOS Regional Sales Director, Marco Castellan, will be attending to meet with librarians and institutional partners to discuss open access publishing, institutional support, and how we work with libraries to support researchers. If you are interested in arranging a meeting during the conference, please contact Marco at mcastellan@plos.org. Learn more about how we support libraries and institutions: https://plos.io/4uPSh9C

We are looking forward to this year’s Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Days showcasing medical research from fragile and conflict-affected settings, bringing together a global community of researchers, innovators, and advocates working to improve humanitarian global health. MSF Scientific Days shows that meaningful, high-quality research is not only possible in crisis contexts but vitally important for our teams to: - Strengthen the delivery and quality of care - Shape policy and humanitarian responses - Ensure communities living and working in crisis are not left out of evidence generation or the benefits it brings. Event details: 📅 Date: 20 May 2026 ⏰ Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM BST 📍 Venue: Central London Register to attend online or in person: https://plos.io/3PHfDzc See the full agenda: https://plos.io/3PBulYy In-person places are limited and assigned at the organisers’ discretion. #MSFSciDays

The future of cancer therapy depends on more than targeting tumor cells, it requires understanding the ecosystem that enables them to survive. Discover how the tumor microenvironment (TME) could shape cancer progression, immune evasion, metabolic adaptation, and treatment resistance. Explore insights into stromal diversity and tumor adaptation: https://plos.io/4dkKDgp

Today’s sustainability challenges demand more than interdisciplinary thinking, they require truly transdisciplinary approaches that bring researchers, communities, policymakers, and industry together. A new commentary in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation argues that the most effective solutions emerge when science is grounded in local realities, informed by diverse knowledge systems, and built on trust with the communities most affected. If we want research to drive real‑world change, especially for the most vulnerable, we need models that break down silos and center equity from the start. Explore how transdisciplinary science can accelerate sustainable futures: https://plos.io/4eB3NAP

This week, Renee Hoch, Maria Zalm and Clare Mc Fadden from our Publication Ethics team have been in Vancouver for the World Conferences on Research Integrity, where we are also proud to be the conference’s coffee break sponsor. If you are attending, join Maria today at 2:15pm in Session 7D (Stanley Park Ballroom 3) as she speaks on Successes and Challenges Enforcing Human Research Ethics Policies in Global Research. Clare is also presenting a poster in the conference’s poster area (#95), where she is sharing work on “Comparing AI‑Generated Text Detections in Paper Mill vs. Control Manuscripts Before and After the Introduction of ChatGPT." If you are onsite, do stop by and take a look. #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026