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August 2008
Research misconduct in Austria
A new Resource for Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Avoiding rejection of high-quality grant proposals
Europe's science forum
Horizons: Life, logic and information
The week on Nature Network: Friday 15 August
SciFoo blogged
Nature Genetics and Wellcome conference on common diseases
Nature Chemical Biology on scientists without borders
New look, new functions for Nature Precedings
How to say no, nicely
The week on Nature Network: Friday 8 August
Nature Asia-Pacific website news
Creating a digital library of mathematics
A golden age for microbial ecology
Texas educator sues over job loss and creationism
The week on Nature Network: Friday 1 August
July 2008
Challenge yourself, says Paul Smaglik
Nature Publishing Group's partners
Researcher suspended for falsifying data
Stockpiling vaccines and fighting 'flu: online discussion
The week on Nature Network: Friday 25 July
Science and the media survey
Employment conditions for UK academics
How journals can help enforce research integrity
Presentations at the nanoscale
The week on Nature Network: Friday 18 July
Reality lags behind rhetoric in building interdisciplinary work
Classic papers in membrane fusion
Importance of archiving for authors in developing countries
Molecular Systems Biology: Life science on the semantic web
The week on Nature Network: Friday 11 July
Training for human studies may become mandatory
NPG will archive for authors
Sign up for the Nature Network Berlin Dinners
Changing the publication landscape with Nature Precedings
The week on Nature Network: Friday 4 July
Sailing for a stretched lithosphere in Nature Geoscience
Mathematicians report on use and misuse of citation statistics
Genomics of common diseases, September 2008
June 2008
Online news aggregator for scientists
The week on Nature Network: Friday 27 June
Nature Chemical Biology on retractions and their communication
Careers advice online forum for the Source Event
Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors?
Solutions, not scapegoats
The week on Nature Network: Friday 20 June
New communication channels in biology workshop, 26 and 27 June
Faked images in research papers submitted to journals
2007 Journal Impact Factors are announced
Preservation of content in electronic journals
Nature Physics advice on giving a talk
Nature's Managing Director on future trends in publishing
SciDevNet's practical guides for science communication
The week on Nature Network: Friday 13 June
Location of authorship and quality in nanotechnology research
Navigating the geography of citation indices
In the Field: on board the Amundsen
Nature Methods focus on single-molecule techniques
European life scientists' conference in Nice
The week on Nature Network: Friday 6 June
Nature Neuroscience on web traffic and citations
Collection of articles on neurotechniques
Surnames and citation indexes
A 3D revolution in communicating science
Is there a loophole in start-up funding?
May 2008
The week on Nature Network: Friday 30 May
How to succeed in science
More digital journals available from British Library
Nature Insight on regenerative medicine
Nature Chemical Biology on the role of Correspondence
Web focus on smoking, nicotine and addiction
Calling all young physiologists
The week on Nature Network: Friday 23 May
American Journal of Gastroenterology to be published by Nature Publishing Group
A second take on 'ghost' authorship
Development of RNAi as a therapeutic strategy
Royal Society shortlist suggestions for holiday reading
How to promote creativity and innovation
Virtual networking for microbiologists
The week on Nature Network: Friday 16 May
Physical science research gets boost in South Africa
Decline of animal laboratories in medical schools
Whistle-blower in court to seek reinstatement
Stimulating progress by changing research direction
How to give a good presentation
The week on Nature Network: Friday 9 May
Researchers need to explain why they use animals
UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway seeks renewed funding
Special issue of Heredity on experimental evolution
More access to Nature publications in Latin America, Africa and Asia
The week on Nature Network: Friday 2 May
Evolution and science education
Science blogging conference set for 30 August
April 2008
Choices in neuroscience careers
New publications for NPG Asia-Pacific
Charles Darwin has a blog
Nature chemistry ready for take-off
The week on Nature Network: Friday 25 April
Women physicists suffer gender bias
Animal research essential until alternatives are found
Alzheimer's poster from Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Biotechnology presents a bioentrepreneur round-table
Ghost authorship of research articles
The week on Nature Network: Friday 18 April
Writing a clear and engaging paper
Publishing models and publication statistics
European science bloggers' conference, and microblogging
British Library surveys researchers' attitudes to copyright
Focus on micro RNAs and cancer
A toe in the water for biotech companies
The week on Nature Network: Friday 11 April
Policing international scientific misconduct
Nanotechnology, science fiction, and society
Vision for Chinese neuroscience research
Seven papers now in good paper journal club
In the Field: American Chemical Society
Creating a research highlight
The week on Nature Network: Friday 4 April
Nature Insight Molecular Cancer Diagnostics
EMBO Reports on research ranking metrics
Good paper journal club: Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs
Announcing NPG Asia Materials website
2008 Nature mentoring awards to be held in Germany
Science news in the United States
Nature Neuroscience focus on decision-making
March 2008
Analogies to describe science to nonscientists
The week on Nature Network: Friday 28 March
Good paper journal club: stomatal signalling in plant guard cells
Nature Reviews stem cell collection
Proposal for a centralized grant repository
Hall and Keynes join Arbor in the citation indexes
Chasing biotech across Europe
Immunology around the world
The week on Nature Network: Friday 21 March
Nature Reviews Genetics: Heritability in the genomics era
Constructive solutions needed to stem illegal animal activism
Editor needed for the Protein Structure Initiative knowledge base
Making research papers clearer
This month in stem cells
Nature Network journal club for well-written scientific papers
Register this month for multiple sclerosis symposium
Nature Network posts, events and good reading
Nature editors at Euroscience Open Forum 2008
Boost your career at Nature Network NatureJobs forum
Consistent guidelines for clinical interventions
New features for Nature Precedings authors and readers
Call for nominations for the Keio medical science prize
Europe needs to be bolder in supporting synthetic biology research
Language of scientific publishing
Nature Methods recommends deposition of proteomics data
Nature news stories on animal-rights "extremists"
Write about science books today, World Book Day
Non-traditional publishing choices for biologists
Visit us at the American Physical Society this month
One woman is still not enough
Nature Insight on cardiovascular disease
Nature Reviews Immunology focus on allergy and asthma
Social network for nephrologists
February 2008
Naked Scientists at Second Life this weekend
Nature Milestones in spin
A multitude of authors
Harvard adopts opt-out open-access policy
Nature Medicine's Q and A with Frankie Trull
Horizons of future science
Nature Network advice on writing style
Nature Events directory 2008 -- digital edition
Research Information Network on data stewardship
Due credit for Asian authors
Production tracking system for Nature journals
Telling science like it is, with conviction
Happy birthday, Nature Network
Using preprints to accelerate research
Protein structures in the public domain
Research networks on the African continent
Nature Network bloggers feature in anthology
Perceived and actual conflicts of interest
Nature Nanotechnology on responsible promises
Targeting lipid signalling in disease
Nature Physics seeks views on online communication tools
Under-representation of women in geoscience
Nature Materials editorial on authorship policy
Nature is seeking a managing editor
January 2008
American Journal of Hypertension at NPG
Happy birthday Nature Photonics
What's in a Jane?
Ask the Nature editor about all kinds of subjects
Trying to hold civilised discourse
Author guidance on plagiarism and duplicate publication
Language and languages of science
No takers for prize to "prove" the paranormal
Declaring conflicts of interest
Citation rates not appropriate for funding assessment
All of Nature available in German academic institutions
NPG partners with Sermo, a physicians' online community
NCP Cardiovascular Medicine to publish original research
A 'third way' for privatizing biomedical research
Bone Marrow Transplantation special issue on myeloma
Thinking of writing fiction about science?
Where did the scientific method go?
Flies, glia and sexual preference at Nature Network
Seymour Benzer's approach to science
How to keep Europe's pipeline full
Opportunities for scientists at the museum
NSMB tribute to Arthur Kornberg
Progress report on Archon X prize for genomics
Astronomy quiz for the weekend
The neuroscience gateway has moved
Mucosal Immunology is published
Earnings of life-science researchers
The single author as endangered species
SciBX, a new electronic publication
Nature Publishing Group is publishing Obesity
Alexandra Witze at American Astronomical Society
Nature's early archive is online
Character or word limits for stylish brevity?
Backstory of Nature Geoscience papers
Free digital editions of Connections, Science and Politics essays
Method of the year and methods to watch
A new citation tool, and disagreements about impact factor
Early 2008 programme of Nature conferences
December 2007
Happy holiday season to all Nautilus readers
Stimulate your brain in more ways than one
Steps required for good mentoring
Nature's alternative climate-change conference
Formatting research proposals and statements
Nature Insight on proteomics freely available online
First publications from Nature Geoscience
Latest news from Nature Reports Stem Cells
Nature China "recommendation of the month" award
Leslie Orgel on publication principles
Web focus on antiviral research, development and discovery
Who's worrying about nanotechnology risks?
Expanded licence for reuse of genome papers
Repaying the rewards of research
Climate change talks at Second Life
EMBO Reports on hope, hype and hypocrisy
New standard for indexing by search engines
Cell biology web focus
November 2007
How would you like to be portrayed on film?
Keeping protests within the law
Do you want to write for Nature's Postdoc Journal?
Successful collaborations and their authorship
New phase for environmental research literature project
Science, film and art at Nature Network
Why scientists write and read blogs
Changing the way scientists are trained
Authors' one-page summaries
How to find the instructions to authors
Join a Nature Network group
Nature Protocols and Nature Methods
University researchers and patent infringements
Tribulations of women in academic research
Scientific engagement and harvest
A perfect seasonal gift
US Congress vote on NIH publishing options
Renaissance people quiz
Perceptions of author listings
Online tour of the Darwin centre, 16 November
Upcoming popular science conferences
Value of visually striking presentations
Technologies of humility and other essays
Maths Plus on Nature Network
Is the term 'nanotechnology' being diluted?
Assessing the value of the PhD
Nature's prize donated to philanthropic fund
How to plan a conference, Nature Physics style
Nature Materials Insight on information storage
Nature focus on biotechnology and pharmacology
Nature Neuroscience focus on glia and disease
Second Nature lecture tonight
Author contributions audit
Tim O'Reilly visits Nature Publishing Group
Molecular Systems Biology's new author licence
The brain in glorious Technicolor
October 2007
Accountability of authors
New diagnostics supplement from Nature Reviews Microbiology
National Academy members' biographies
Journey to Spain
Call for scientists to speak up for human rights
Recommend research from China and Hong Kong
Global poverty and human development at nature.com
Naming the first scientist
Nature Chemical Biology changes article formats
Reverse marketing strategies
From village to high-tech powerhouse
Opportunities for women in early genetics
Funding basic research brings unexpected benefits
Milestones in DNA technologies
Ask the Nature editor: scientific publishing careers
Academic managers can ensure equal pay
Choose your favourite article from Nature
Science publishing forum organized by students
What's new in Stem Cells this October
Nature India website to launch next month
Browsing at the Omics Gateway
'Wisdom of the crowds' in mentoring?
Outsourcing research to third parties
Google presentations
Twenty pearls of wisdom in your life
October Cell Migration Gateway news
Nature Protocols free access during October
Essays by Lasker awardees in Nature Medicine
Video as a tool for science communication
Audit of researchers' timekeeping
Unconformity of dress, but not of ideas?
The h-index has its flaws
Nature is now accepting submissions in MS Word 2007
NPG and Portico digital archive
Nature Nanotechnology first birthday
Nature online journal clubs
Neuroscience 2007: Nature conference website
September 2007
Nature collection on ageing
Choose your favourite science blog
50 years of the clonal selection theory
Getting the story right
Are women more engaged in collaborative research?
Biotechnology publishing trends
Staying current with blogs and wikis
What's hot in science books
Focus on emotion and emotion disorders
NCP Cardiovascular Medicine to publish primary research
Choosing the editor for your submission
A rough guide to publication
Fostering responsible research
Public accessibility of scientific databases
Special issue on marine microbiology
The long hike of science research
Are there too many scientists?
Russian scientists in Soviet-style security service investigation
A badge for your Nature Network blog
Access to the literature, Nature and PRISM
Update about the Nature Geoscience website
Ethical review must be effective yet concise
Plagiarism at arXiv, and Nature journals' policies
Papers should not need supplementary information
Update on writing manuscripts in MS Word 2007
Nature Collections: Energy
Chemical neurobiology symposium in February
August 2007
Online symposia and groups to develop students' skills
Recommended bioinformatics blogs
Pros and cons of the embargo system
Finding the humour in puns
Promoting peace through science
Difficulties for women in international reserarch
Raw deal for young biology researchers
Rhetoric in scientific writing
Environmental impact of scientific conferences
Language log on citation plagiarism
What's an author?
Is EU funding worth the effort?
Journal of Investigative Biology's online journal club
Wikiversity online learning project
Nature spotlight on Canada
Women (and men) of science
Nature journal policies on proteomics data
Announcing Nature Chemistry
News for job seekers and recruiters
Nature seeks a Books&Arts editor
Making room for dissent
Nature's July top ten PDF downloads
Getting stem-cell research published in Nature
Science Foo camp 2007
Ways to engage the public in science
August editorials on sharing, naming and credit
Nobel prize nominations for physics inventions
EU visa rules need to be more scientist-friendly
Reform needed for research on human subjects
Summer edition of Nurture is now published
Styling in reference lists
Chemistry podcast from Nature
Famous fictional scientists
Deb Koen's advice on careers
Call for views on synthetic biology
Careers and events in chemistry for August
July 2007
Reading, downloading or citing?
The first two lines
Summer reads at Nature Methods
Scientific advice to policymakers
Molecular Systems Biology July issue
Momentum and meritocracy?
Humour in scientific writing
A timely reminder
Molecule search in Second Life
The David Niven factor and a new journal
Value of copy editing
Functional glycomics gateway July update
Obituary: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)
Automated structured abstracts
Nature Medicine cover in Nikon competition
Lovelybooks website from Holtzbrinck
Nature Reports Stem Cells update
Stripping off the white coat
Access to journals in developing world
New rector for ETH
Pathway interactions July update
Concert for climate
Planet Nature
July Cell Migration update is live
Is citation extortion practiced?
Nature wins Principe de Asturias award
Public engagement in nanoscience
Responses to "unwise branding" Editorial
Not as good as all that for British research
Nature's science fiction issue
Futures returns to Nature this week
Calling all biologists: free market science
Nature Network in the Guardian
Nature Physics celebrates its impact factor
Google scholar as a measure of impact
Being knowledgeable about patents
Challenges for the modern public university
Timo Hannay and the Daily Transcript on "the web opportunity"
Nanotechnology in Cancer
Nature Publishing Group journals' 2006 impact factors
June 2007
Sara Abdulla reviews London's Wellcome collection
Blair's legacy to the UK scientific community
Free special issue of Nature Genetics
Mucosal Immunology launching in January
A female road of science
Nature China weekly update
What is "open science"?
History timeline for Nature
Precedings forum on Nature Network
Academic discrimination against Iran
The unsung scientific record
Starting an online conversation about your paper
Will Darwin Centre be big enough?
Focus on natural products in Nature Chem Bio
Join the discussion at Nature Protocols
Allen Brain Atlas upgrades are now live
Achieving a clearer writing style
ICSU on proposed Israeli academic boycott
Word 2007 and science publishing
Web focus on medical imaging from JCBFM
Functional Glycomics gateway June update
Science and book activities in Second Life
Update on Nature Precedings
Nature Reviews Microbiology vaccine focus
GeoChip at the Omics Gateway
Nature China's opening conferences
Nature Precedings is now launched
From the Nature Network blogs
ENCODE project web focus and poster
The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006
State of the Planet course
Corrigendum for Nature paper on stem cells
Academic diversity in universities
Stem-cell science and publishing news
Scintilla now open to all
Wellcome collection opens 21 June
Nature Nanotechnology June issue is out
Conference on translational approaches to cardiovascular research
Nature's Washington office renovations
Tim Berners Lee on video
Selfish factoids in scientific writing
Convolute or convolve?
Patent information could aid replication
British Library report on archive digitization
Nature Geoscience: call for papers
Community service: stem cells and climate research
Emergence and convergence mini-symposium
Creating an interdisciplinary research culture
Animal rights, human wrongs?
Molecular Systems Biology and ICSB
Awards and nominations for Nature
Focus on Cytokines and Cytokine Therapies
How many flawed papers go unretracted?
EMBO award for communication in the life sciences
Strengthening gender equity for physics researchers
Nature Nanotechnology calling for papers
Molecular Therapy
Avian Flu blog and e-newsletter
Podcast on science publishing and the web
Oncogenes and human cancer conference
Photonics at NPG
May 2007
Academics strike back at spurious rankings
Gotham prize for cancer research
Nature China conference on "how to get published"
A new look for chemical information
Science in virtual worlds
Nature Medicine symposium in October
Nature's journal club blog
Update on Live Search Academic
HINARI now includes 2,500 institutions
Don't brand animal-activist criminals as terrorists
Nature in Second Life: back to the past
The Source Event careers fair for scientists
Your lab website is your shop window
By the Sea at Lablit.com
Animal-welfare sections in papers not the way
Code of ethics conduct for scientists
Geological Society opens up Lyell Collection
Plea to expand UN journal programme
Love and money in biomedical philanthropy
Glycomics updates for May
Copyright Clearance Center enhancements
Nature Collections: Metagenomics
Back to the Futures
Would you like to give a talk at Second Nature?
Rough Guide to Climate Change
Review on DNA nanomachines in Nature Nanotechnology
Congratulations to Annette Thomas
Journal publishing awards announced
An early review of Nature Network
Free Nature technology feature on cell biology
Integrating scientific cultures
Nature web focus for the marsupial genome
Starting at the top
Nature China's research highlights this week
Key narrative
Making names and descriptions available to all
New edition of Nurture is out
Nature's spring book reviews
Breaking barriers project for women in science
Praising or lamenting the brain drain?
Welcome to Climate Feedback blog
A round-up from the Sceptical Chymist
Online resource for stem cell biology.
Contributing more to science
Share your lab notes
This week's Nature China updates are available
Right to cite, or citing not right?
A word about Nature Clinical Practice
Electronic paper rewrites the rulebook for displays
Scopus to incorporate h-index
April 2007
Nature Protocols volume 2 free access all May
Scientific podcast review
When an editor discovered the Hobbit
Nature Immunology focus, free all May
NCP Rheumatology on flaws in the Impact Factor criteria
Nature Genetics conference on common diseases
Accountability of citation databases
New study of old brains: podcast and news@nature.com
Free online access to Nature Reviews Neuroscience for May
Science outreach by online video sharing
Why so few women speakers at scientific conferences?
Journals need to unify their style requirements
Language clinic: to prey is not to predate
E-book developments for researchers
Ordering reprints, issues and posters
Special issues of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Rsk1, molecule of the week
What a good laboratory home page looks like
A short time in science publishing
Through glasses clearly for Nature Chemical Biology
World premiere of Cocktail, a play about HIV
Choosing your words carefully
Nature Reports Stem Cells
Welcome to The Seven Stones
A doctoral thesis is not "prepublication"
Lecture on D'Arcy Thompson on Wednesday 18 April
Length of time to write, and publish, a manuscript
Nature's scientific mentoring awards 2007
Save your notes, drafts and printouts
Agreement on the scholarly communication process
Nature publishes full methods sections
Nanotech 2007: focus on clean technologies
Woodstock of physics podcast
Nature reports --- avian flu
Application notes email update
Nature special feature on cancer research
Nature Publishing Group at BIO Convention
Chemistry round-up from Nature Publishing Group
March 2007
Do you understand your error bars?
Molecules of the month
A new metric of journal quality: please help
Technical writing in ten easy steps
Calling all cognitive neuroscientists
Awash with bioinformatics
Sticking to the point
New look for NPG catalogue of journals and publications
Embargo policies and online publication
Fluorescence imaging collection from Nature Reviews
Nature Network London
Happy 300th birthday Linnaeus
Making the paper: Jeffrey Moore
3D compounds on the Nature Chemical Biology website
Nature Reviews Neuroscience Poster on pain mechanisms
Nature Reviews Genetics focus on epigenetics
Macular degeneration articles from Eye
A podcast primer
NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database — March update
Blogs as part of your c.v.?
Proposal for journals to include animal welfare details
Getting your international paper published in a Nature journal
Journals' picture copyright policies compared
Library Journal's science books of 2006
Update on The ISME Journal
Nature Methods on sharing of software
Enduring history of a fraud
Science publishing blogs
Nature Biotechnology: democratizing proteomics data
More news about Nature China
Cause for (anonymous) concern
Seeing science in colour, or not
Nature Materials has a new online look
Word counts in cell biology journals
Quality assessment tools, and Connotea
Methods in full
February 2007
Cell Death & Differentiation special issue on capsases
Copyright assignment for work presented at conferences
Nature network: connecting scientists worldwide
Chemists' and biologists' mechanistic middle ground
Nature Geoscience: a new Nature journal
The online edited "book"
Free online access to Nature Reviews Microbiology in March
Nature China is born
Calling all immunologists
Making figures comprehensible for colour-blind readers
Biology databases go wiki
New NPG journal for mucosal immunology
Martyn Daniels on science journal publishing
Methagora and citizen readership
Scientists advise, ministers decide
Piped music ensemble of NPG blogs
Milestones in Cutaneous Biology
For how long should data be archived?
Languages of science
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology on Joshua Lederberg
Guide to receptors and channels
Futures at Nature Physics
Nurture crossword solution
NPG's Signaling Gateway research library
Lectures on polymathy and science
Nature Podcast on Amazon conservation...and more
January 2007
Footprint, weight, or is there a better term?
Who is reading what at your institution
Q&As about Q&As, from Nature's News and Views Editor
Call for papers for The ISME Journal
Question of the year for genetics researchers
Breakaway journals improve quality but need subscriptions
Community consultation at Nature Biotechnology
Scopus adds older citation data and abstracts
Active is better than passive or neutral
Citing submitted but not published papers
Connections: a series of Nature essays