#reachingoutsci – scientists and science communicators share their social media case studies
For the next week, content on the SpotOn website will be focused on a series of case studies about using social media for science outreach. For details of what to expect from the series, check out our overview. The full list of these #reachingoutsci posts, as they’re published, can be found here.
Also, don’t forget to tune into Thursday’s SpotOn NYC event. We’ll be celebrating SpotOnNYC’s second birthday with similar discussions about how to effectively use social media. As always, we’ll be live-streaming if you can’t join us in person.
PastCast – delve into the Nature archives!
There’s a new monthly series from the Nature podcast team which explores some unusual stories around the archives of Nature journal. We spoke to Kerri Smith about PastCast and asked her what we can expect in the coming months.
nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG
Last week, Nature Video posted a film to accompany a new technique on brain imaging. In light of the video’s unusual soundtrack, we hosted a guest post by Adam Rutherford who asked our readers:
“Should we add music to science films?”
Place your votes here – results will be revealed later this week.
For a round-up of the rest of the content across the NPG blogs, check out Friday’s summary, which includes bioengineered kidneys, a giant Hawaiian telescope and some biological punning.
Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs
The embargo in Cuba was, and continues to be, a great source of suffering for the Cuban people. But if there is one bright side to it, it’s the mini health revolution it spurred: “From 1991 to 1995, Cuba was hit particularly hard by international embargo. Its population suffered. But scientists have now identified the only benefit of the embargo: it lead to a population-wide weight loss, and with this a decrease in cases of diabetes and heart diseases.”
SciLogs.com – an NPG network of science bloggers
Young chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Image via WikimediaCommons
This week, two new bloggers joined SciLogs.com! Make sure you welcome public health student Tania Browne who blogs about epidemiology on Epilogue and filmmaker and journalist Kerstin Hoppenhaus who is blogs from the heart of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on I, EVA.
Anne-Marie Hodge covers a new paper which explores the effect primate hunting by humans has on an entire forest ecosystem, across generations. The post is a good reminder of how interconnected all life is.
You can also find the best science writings from last week curated by Malcolm Campbell here, and SciLogs.com’s weekly roundup here.