NPG journal club: How has Earth’s climate changed in the past 2,000 years? #NPGjclub
On May 9th May we hosted our very first NPG journal club. The topic of conversation was: How has Earth’s climate changed in the past 2,000 years? This big climate question tied in with the recent publication of a progress article in Nature Geoscience. You can watch the journal club below:
nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG
Every Wednesday, the Indigenus blog host an ‘Away from home’ post featuring an Indian postdoc working in a foreign lab. This week’s contribution is from Atrayee Banerjee, talking about how marriage catapulted her further into her scientific pursuits. She offers some top tips for aspiring postdocs:
1. Make sure you know what you are getting into, what the expectations are and how long the position is funded. Ask plenty of questions, especially about your long term career growth, and make sure that your mentor is invested in your career and wants you to be successful in life and not be a life-long post doc.
This week’s Soapbox Science post, by Dan Drollette, looks at the human side of research:
It’s about connecting the dots between the raw fieldwork and the dry abstract. It’s about the human side of research.
It’s about passion.
It’s about showing, not telling.
For a summary of the week’s blogging content, check out the best of NPG blogs, including news from NASA, quantum computers and how to measure health.
Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs
Scitable has formally announced the launch of over 10 new blogs on its network in two weeks’ time. The new blogs will cover a range of topics including neuroscience, geology, oceanography, physics and more.
In anticipation, Scitable’s group blog Student Voices will feature previews with guest contributions from some of Scitable’s new bloggers.
Last week, Mark Stokes blogged about how neuroscientists are beginning to decode our dreams.
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Science reporters cover mostly peer-reviewed research. But there are benefits in covering grants too says Matt Shipman: “It dawned on me that […] a great reason to promote grants [is] to raise awareness in the research community of emerging research initiatives, thus creating opportunities for formal or informal collaboration.”
Don’t miss the past week’s best science writings curated by Malcolm Campbell here. And, if that’s not enough, all SciLogs.com blog post from last week are in here.
SpotOn NYC
Details of June’s event will be announced soon, so do stay tuned on the #SoNYC hashtag.
You can also relive last month’s birthday celebrations by checking out our social media case studies, they can all be found here. We will also be hosting more case studies in the next few weeks, so keep an eye on the #reachingoutsci conversations.