– to our brand-new blog! We’re starting this with some trepidation, but hope that we – and you – will soon be comfortable in this online medium. Why a Nature Neuroscience blog? Don’t we have enough on our plate already? Trust me, we do…

However, putting together a monthly journal and meeting our readers and authors at conferences, we gradually realized that we ought to offer some sort of simple, easy, low-threshold feedback and dialogue mechanism for our audience. “Action Potential” is going to be it. We’ll be posting links to new NN papers as they go online, so you have a chance to comment on them easily. We’ll try to stir up discussion about our editorials. We’ll offer links to material published elsewhere that we find interesting. We’ll blog about exciting findings in neuroscience, science politics, developments in science publishing, etc, etc. Anything neuroscience may show up on the blog, and we’ll always invite your comments. We look forward to hearing from you.