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SciLogs.fr launches

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The SciLogs international network of science blogs expands today with the launch of Scilogs.fr, a new French language site. Scilogs.fr is a blogging platform dedicated to science news, scientific research and the wider world of science in France and beyond.

Scilogs.fr allowing scientists and anyone interested in science to interact and discuss the science in all its forms: research, practical application, ethics, politics, etc..

If you want to start a blog on the platform, you can submit your idea or existing blog to scilogs@pourlascience.fr. You can also follow all their news on Twitter @SciLogsFr.

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2013

This year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is taking place from 30th June. You may remember that the meeting is an annual event where promising young scientists from around the world have the opportunity to spend a week on the island of Lindau, hearing advice from Nobel laureates in science and sharing their own ambitions and ideas. As usual, all the plenary lectures will be covered on Twitter – keep an eye on the #lnlm13 hashtag – and don’t forget to check out the Nobel Community website for blog posts from Beatrice Lugger, SciLogs.com’s Akshat Rathi and Scientific American blogger, Kathleen Raven, plus many others.

World Conference of Science Journalists

Another event that some NPG staff will be attending is The 8th World Conference of Science Journalists, which is taking place this week in Helsinki. You can see the full programme here and can follow the online conversation using the #wcsj2013 hashtag.

The Nature Publishing Index

On Thursday, the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) went live. The index ranks scientific research institutions according to the number of papers that they’ve published in Nature or the Nature monthly research journals in 2012.

2012 Global Top 200 - Nature Publishing Index - Nature Publishing Group


Where does your institution rank?

 

Double blind peer review trial

Double blind peer review (where both the reviewers of a paper and its authors remain anonymous during the paper’s review process) is being trialed by Nature Climate Change and Nature Geoscience journals. Chief Editor of Nature Geoscience, Heike Langenberg, explains more and shares a Storify of online reactions to the announcement of the trial.  The results of the experiment will be shared in due course too.

nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG

Getting the conversation started is half the battle ISTOCKPHOTO/THINKSTOCK

Catherine de Lange offers up some networking tips for graduate students in the Nature Jobs Blog:

1) Jump in on the conversation—Even though you may feel awkward, silly, or rude, you must join in on conversations. The first time I approached a scientist at a social mixer, I waited for what felt like 20 minutes for her to turn from her colleague and acknowledge me. I actually considered backing away slowly and then making a run for it. 

Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change are running a double blind peer review trial, allowing authors to choose to keep anonymous for the duration of the peer review process. Check out  some of the initial responses in a guest post from Heike Langenberg, the Chief Editor of Nature Geoscience – the post includes a Storify.

This week’s round-up of NPG blogs includes: impact factors, career advice from Athene Donald, archetypes at work, plus lots more.

NPG journals and products on Twitter

NPG Asia Materials is now on Twitter, they’re @AsiaMaterials:

NPG Asia Materials is aimed at an audience of scientists and researchers across the full spectrum of materials research, and publishes articles from the physical and chemical sciences, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The journal welcomes high-quality review and research articles from all over the world.

You can find a list of all NPG journals and products on Twitter here.

Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs 

To tie in with the Fight for the Reef campaign ran last week, Jessica Carilli has a short but comprehensive post about the importance of coral reefs. Five reasons why coral reefs are important.

SciLogs.com – an NPG network of science bloggers 

The Frontier Scientists blog has a really great #longread which comprehensively looks at the relationship between the Arctic ecosystem, and its glaciers, and climate change. It’s an ideal blog post to get a grasp of the devastating effects of climate change on the Arctic… and Earth itself.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

The biological warfare series continues. In its latest installment, Annelie Wendeberg looks at how people used insects as a weapon. Not pretty: “These armies of female soldiers – flying miniature suicide bombers courageous enough to protect the life of the queen with their own – can raise a full fledged panic among a group of humans hiding in a cave.”

Malcolm Campbell has you covered if you missed any science last week. Every SciLogs.com blog posts from week are here.

 

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