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Nature Outlook – Sleep
The latest Nature Outlook is all about sleep and it’s free online for six months:
Researchers are defining the various functions of sleep, from how we learn to the regulation of metabolism and immunity. Insufficient sleep, a growing problem in modern society, can knock our biological clocks out of kilter, sometimes leading to chronic disease and neurodegeneration. New ways to treat troubled sleeping are being developed, and better sleep practice can help people with mood disorders.
An Extra Dimension to Protocols
Nature Protocols are happy to announce that they can now display videos right in the text of Protocols:
This may seem like a small change but we hope that this way of handling videos will make them more useful to readers and we hope will encourage authors to think creatively about the use of videos in their protocols. We will certainly be encouraging authors to take advantage of the possibilities this facilitates.
nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG
This week we hosted a special Soapbox Science series, expanding on the online #reachingoutsci discussions. You can find information about the guest authors here and follow the links below:
- Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1
- The Twenty-fifth Hour of the Day: Finding Time for Outreach: Part 2
- Unclogging institutional conduits between research and outreach: Part 3
Check out this week’s best of NPG blogs, including career advice, Alvin updates, canyon geology, plus lots more!
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Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs
It’s been a long time coming! Scitable has officially launched ten new blogs and one new forum this week. Check out all the debut posts here. They include “If a black hole is a dead star, how do they die?”, “Do species really exist?”, “What’s the time?”, “Does love involve addiction pathways?” and more.
Plus, to tie in with Scitable’s relaunch, Of Schemes and Memes hosted a Q&A with Ilona Miko.
SciLogs.com – an NPG network of science bloggers
The Cleanroom
Charles Darwin is blogging on SciLogs.com! Or at least, SciLogs.com blogger Joe Dramiga is highlighting some of Darwin’s most remarkable paragraphs, taken from his numerous travelogues and books, on his blog The Sankoré Scriptures. The series “Raw and Uncut” showcases the brilliance of Darwin not just as a scientist but also as a writer.
SciLogs.com blogger Kerstin Hoppenhaus is a journalist currently embedded at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. She chronicles her experiences in the institutes, giving readers a view into how scientists go about doing science. In her latest blog post, she talks about the importance of… the cleanroom!
Curator extraordinaire Malcolm Campbell has the past week’s best writings in science here. All SciLogs.com blog post from the past week are all here.
SpotOn NYC
We reignited May’s birthday celebrations by featuring some more social media case studies on the SpotOn site. This week we heard about campaign Twitter accounts, the TEDMED Great Challenges conference and how biology students blog about their independent research projects. All the social media case studies we have featured can found here and check out the #reachingoutsci conversations.