Here’s a summmary of posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers:

Peer to Peer reports Journal of Biology’s new type of peer-review system, with highlights of various different systems.

The Sceptical Chymist features Nature Chemical Biology‘s announcement of the journal’s new Primer section.

Climate Feedback points readers to an interview with Andrew Gouldson, head of a new UK climate change policy and economics centre.

Nascent posts about Scitable, the new interactive online site for genetics students from Nature Education.

Peer to Peer has an outburst about trial by media or internet of published scientific research.

The Niche amusingly reports on wrong claims for cosmetics made in the name of science.

The Great Beyond adds a “Gallileo DNA twist” to the story about Tycho Brahe’s exhumation that you may have read about in the general media.

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