Scientific Data’s first Editorial Board members
Announced this week, Scientific Data names the first scientists to join their Editorial Board:
Editorial Board members will play a central role in Scientific Data’s community-based editorial process. Board members will help determine which works are sent out for peer review, select appropriate peer referees, and then recommend a decision for each submission, based on the referees’ reports and our editorial guidelines. You can find out more about our criteria for publication here. Editorial Board members will also play a crucial role in helping us define standards in their fields of expertise.
Click here to see all of the members of their Advisory Panel and their growing Editorial Board.
SpotOn London 2013 – get your suggestions in! #solo13
A reminder that this year’s SpotOn London conference will take place on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th November. If you have a suggestion that fits into this year’s theme, please add it to the public google document – you have until July 31st!
For further information on the conference and information on how you can get involved, take a read of our blog post here . Finally, if you’re not already on our mailing list do send us an email and we’ll add you!
Webcast Alert
On July 31st, Macmillan Science Communication presents a custom webcast on: Accelerating the discovery and development of monoclonal antibodies. Discussions start at 3pm BST and will be followed by a Q&A. All are welcome to join in – you simply need to register here
nature.com blogs – a collection of blogs from editors and other staff at NPG
Environment Agency National Biodiversity Manager, Alastair Driver, is this week’s guest Soapbox Science blogger. In his post he explains why we should give conservation a chance:
The question is – are we conservationists really making any difference? The simple answer to that is – yes, but just as the environment has suffered near-death by a thousand cuts, so it requires healing by a thousand operations, and that takes time. You can’t spend 200 years damaging the environment and then expect to put it right in the blink of a government.
This week’s best of NPG blogs includes: the Cassini probe, X-ray lasers, a video, honey bees and fat’s effect on the brain.
Scitable – Nature Education’s network of science blogs
A stunning heartfelt post by guest blogger Robin George Andrews who recounts why he wanted to become a scientists who studies the stars:
“Without realising it at first, I became a scientist because I wanted to unravel the universe, to peer into creation and destruction, to see atoms, to think in grand, all-encompassing ways, to realise just how lucky we are, in this ever-expanding space through which we perpetually fall, to be alive to understand a tiny part of it.”
Credit: Robin George Andrews
SciLogs.com – a blogging network
Pete Etchells is looking at the #prereg hashtag on Twitter and curating the debate. What’s the #prereg hashtag about? It is a new type of research paper, proposed and spearheaded by a group of scientists, in which methods and analyses are peer reviewed before data are collected. Check out Pete’s blog Counterbalanced for more.
Your weekly morsels of the best science stories curated by Malcolm Campbell right is here.
Nature‘s new Impact Factor
To celebrate Nature’s new Impact Factor we are once again offering you the opportunity to subscribe at an exclusive limited time rate of only $38, £38 or €38! Details here.
