Nature Network turned three last month. During our early years, we’ve enjoyed thousands of illuminating, entertaining and sometimes controversial posts from our diverse pool of bloggers. Now, exciting new changes are afoot.

From tomorrow, Nature Network’s blogs will have a high-profile new home on the Nature.com Blogs site, where they’ll feature alongside Nature Publishing Group’s highly regarded blogs, such as The Great Beyond, Nautilus and The Sceptical Chymist. In other words, all the blogs hosted by Nature will be brought together in one scintillating web site.

Links to new blog posts, recent comments and popular posts will still appear on Nature Network’s blogs page as ever, but the real meat – the words, pictures, videos, maps, thoughts and theories of our bloggers – will now appear at blogs.nature.com.

At the same time, our bloggers will be getting some new tools to play with. Currently, they’re using fairly limited software built in-house several years ago. With the new move, we’ll be introducing a more versatile blogging platform called Movable Type 4. This will, for example, allow bloggers more freedom to use multimedia content and schedule posts – down the line, it will allow us to introduce blogs with multiple authors. (Bloggers – you’ll be receiving full instructions on using the new site by email.)

During the transition, we anticipate a period of downtime on Nature Network of several hours tomorrow afternoon starting at approximately 12 noon (GMT) and lasting for up to six hours.

Once the new set-up is in place, we’d appreciate any feedback. Whether you’re a Nature Network blogger, commenter or reader, you can join in discussion on a new forum, created to aggregate suggestions about the blogs.

Finally, if this has inspired you to start a blog, send your request/sample of writing to network@nature.com.