Nature Pastcast: A hole in the ozone layer above Antarctic
The latest Nature Pastcast, a monthly podcast that digs deep into the Nature archives, focuses on when Jonathan Shanklin made the startling discovery of a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica.
In this podcast, he and others recall events in the mid-1980s and discuss how the ‘ozone hole’ became the poster child for environmentalism.
“Disqus” on Nature News
At the end of last week, we replaced our home-grown commenting system with Disqus, so that nature.com registrants can now leave a comment on Nature News using an interface that is familiar and extensively used across the Internet. More details can be found here.
nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG
Nature Jobs continue their Windback Wednesdays series where they dig into their archives to find nuggets of advice that never grow old. This week is all about networking:
Think networking is a dirty word? Think again. Although the prospect terrifies the best of us, this month we will be sharing top tips from the Naturejobs archive to prove that if you tackle it in the right way, networking can feel natural and easy.
In this week’s Soapbox Science post, Liz Neeley reflects on public and private responses to the ideas presented in a COMPASS paper published in PLOS Biology. The paper shared experiences in science communication over the past decade:
For example, think about how seriously engaging in science communication remains a challenge for so many scientists. The much-cited Ecklund et al. and the Royal Societies surveys match what we at COMPASS hear from our colleagues: researchers keenly feel a lack of skills, institutional incentives, and time.
You can also see the online conversations around the subject using the #reachingoutsci hashtag.
This week’s best of NPG blogs includes: lasers, neon gas, spider copulation, plus a very funny comic!
Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs
Rainforest Action Network (via Flickr)
This week, eighteen science bloggers join Scitable blogs. The new bloggers will contribute to ten new blogs and one new forum, which will launch throughout the course of the week, starting today! As part of the rundown to the anticipated launch, some of the new bloggers have guest posted on Scitable’s group blog Student Voices.
Charles Ebikeme wrote about how human policies affect the environment. Sarah Jane Alger looked at spider copulation and a technique employed by male spiders to improve their chances of not getting eaten by the females. Jordan Gaines detailed a curious phenomenon which leads to uncontrollable rage stemming from seemingly random sounds.
SciLogs.com – an NPG network of science bloggers
SciLogs.com bloggers won two of the eleven Science Seeker Awards, which were announced last week. The Science Seeker Awards reward the very best science bloggers. Nathalia Holt and Pete Etchells won the Best medical sciences post and the Best post about peer-reviewed research respectively. SciLogs.com bloggers Nsikan Apkan and Jalees Rehman were finalists in the two categories as well. It goes without saying that their blogs are must-reads!
As always, Malcolm Campbell has curated the past week’s musts in science here. All SciLogs.com blog post from the past week are all here.