Here’s a summmary of some posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

In the Field: Reports from the World Science Festival in New York.

The Great Beyond: Scientists strike back at pseudoscience.

Sceptical Chymist: Q/As with Aaron Wright and with Ian Fleming.

Methagora: Nature Methods top downloads for May.

The Great Beyond: New element needs a name.

Indigenus: Western concerns about climate don’t help vulnerable populations.

Sceptical Chymist: end of the cookbook laboratory.

Nascent: Welcome to the streamosphere. And here is a Streamosphere update (7 July).

Methagora: Cover error?

The Niche: Stem cell trial to go ahead in India.

In the Field: Following the Apollo 11 moon landing in real-time – 40 years on, and reporting on the World Conference of Science Journalists.

The Niche: Chief scientific officer leaves regenerative medicine intsitute.

Climate Feedback: Reporting the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.

Sceptical Chymist: Blogging and Twittering from the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.

Nascent: “I am not a scientist, I am a number”.

Previous nature.com blogs round-ups.

Here’s a summmary of some posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

Methagora : Nature Methods announces online methods, in which the journal joins Nature in offering authors much longer methods sections which appear online but are formatted and integrated into the main paper’s online PDF.

Indigenus: Celebrating publication of a new book of biographical sketches of 98 Indian women scientists.

Spoonful of Medicine: On the annoyance to authors of having to fill out forms

The Great Beyond: Was marketing material published in the guise of peer-reviewed literature? An update is here, on the same blog, providing the publisher’s response.

Free Association: An archive of Nature Genetics Editorials published between 2004 and 2006.

Nascent: Improvements to the machine-readable interface on nature.com. For a less technical report, Nascent also provides a link to Nature Network blogger Martin Fenner’s interview with Tony Hammond of NPG.

The Great Beyond: Conflicts of interest are not being declared in some cancer research studies.

Sceptical Chymist: Q/As with Eugenio Conorado and Erin Carlson.

Peer to Peer: Websites encourage direct public funding for research proposals.

The Great Beyond: Historic lectures by Nobel laureates.

Climate Feedback: Biased media reporting of climate change conference.

Sceptical Chymist: What’s in the second issue of Nature Chemistry.

The Great Beyond: Science writer sued for libel. A related Nautilus post provides a link to an online petition at the Sense About Science website .

Nascent: Wolfram Alpha has potential but I can’t see scientists using it yet, writes Euan Adie.

Spoonful of Medicine: Good writing makes a boring healthcare topic come alive

The Great Beyond: The first science experiment on Twitter.

Methagora: Problems of reproducibility in proteomics experiments.

Nascent: Which web 2.0 services do scientists use?

The Niche: Round-up of stem cell articles in NPG journals this month.

Previous nature.com blogs round-ups.

Here’s a summmary of some posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

Sceptical Chymist: Why Johathan Clayden became a chemist.

The Great Beyond: Update on the controversial change of rules for grant applications to the UK Engineering and physical science research council.

Nautilus: Nature Structural and Molecular Biology on the NPG press office service for authors.

The Niche: NIH issues draft guidelines for stem-cell research.

In the Field: Quirin Schiermeier blogs from the 2009 European Geosciences Union conference.

The Great Beyond: "Voodoo” no more.

Climate feedback: Is climate change research really social science?

Sceptical Chymist: Questions to and answers from Alan Aspuruguzik and Shana Kelley.

The Great Beyond: Rally in support of research on live animals.

Previous nature.com blogs round-ups.

Here’s a summmary of posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

The Great Beyond: journals should routinely check for plagiarism.

The Sceptical Chymist: why Xueming Yang became a chemist.

Nascent : how to organise an unconference.

The Great Beyond: temper tantrum by a medical journal.

Methagora: Nature Methods’ most downloaded papers for February.

In the Field: A set of reports from the American Physical Society meeting.

The Seven Stones: Reason and the Internet.

The Great Beyond: tough times for medical charity research funders.

Indigenus: seeking readers’ suggestions for Nature India.

Nascent : Walls come tumbling down.

The Sceptical Chymist: how science is “communicated” to the media.

The Great Beyond: How many scientists are affected by research council’s controversial new funding policy?

Methagora: call for entries to photomicrography competition

Blogs.nature.com is an index and tracking website for all scientific blogs including, but not limited to, Nature Publishing Group staff blogs.

Previous nature.com blogs round-ups.

Here’s a summmary of posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

The Great Beyond: thirteenth entry in the Nature News blog’s series of songs about science.

Sceptical Chymist: why Lynn Loo became a chemist; and Nicholas Long receives the same treatment.

Spoonful of Medicine: economic packages to stimulate scientific research.

Nascent: a project to analyse how many, and what kind of, comments are made online to the scientific papers published in the journal PLOS One. Call for crowdsourcing help; enticing prizes for participants; results and analysis.

The Great Beyond: Galaxy Zoo 2 launches.

Spoonful of Medicine: we want your paper!

In The Field: reports from the AAAS meeting by Nature’s editors and journalists.

Sceptical Chymist: how universities can exploit their research.

Climate Feedback: call for citizen climate scientists.

The Great Beyond: Lego authorship (videos).

Methagora: scientists need to communicate more with the public.

Sceptical Chymist: thoughts on careers in chemistry arising from Univeristy Challenge disqualification.

Indigenus: Bloggers beware, in the light of a recent Indian court case.

Spoonful of Medicine: unravelling researchers’ financial ties.

Blogs.nature.com is an index and tracking website for all scientific blogs including, but not limited to, Nature Publishing Group staff blogs

Previous nature.com blogs round-ups.

Here’s a summmary of posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

Peer to Peer reports Journal of Biology’s new type of peer-review system, with highlights of various different systems.

The Sceptical Chymist features Nature Chemical Biology‘s announcement of the journal’s new Primer section.

Climate Feedback points readers to an interview with Andrew Gouldson, head of a new UK climate change policy and economics centre.

Nascent posts about Scitable, the new interactive online site for genetics students from Nature Education.

Peer to Peer has an outburst about trial by media or internet of published scientific research.

The Niche amusingly reports on wrong claims for cosmetics made in the name of science.

The Great Beyond adds a “Gallileo DNA twist” to the story about Tycho Brahe’s exhumation that you may have read about in the general media.

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