Tinker Ready here, Nature Network Boston’s new Hub Leader. I officially start tomorrow.

Among other duties, I’ll be tending to the network and offering regular updates on the scientific scene on both sides of the Charles River.

If my name sounds familiar, it is. As a health and science freelance journalist, I’ve been a steady contributor to both Nature Medicine and NNB. For more details and links to my newspaper, magazine and multimedia work, check my NNB profile or ""www.tinkerready.com"

I welcome new network members, feedback, contributing bloggers, news, comments, ideas, links, jokes, the rare corrections, photos and other items to make the network more relevant to Boston’s scientific community.

Tomorrow – Area scientists work to understand and address the increasingly catastrophic Gulf of Mexico Oil spill. Will magic Louisiana – our disgrace and our national treasure — survive this environmental assault?