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Blogs Anne-Marie Hodge kicks off this week with a ‘furry’ start by introducing us to the new mammals of 2010, presenting us with an unusual creature that has sparked a lot of interest due to its bizarre features: A snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, from Myanmar (Geissmann et al. 2011) that apparently can’t help sneezing in the rain. This Himalayan simian has inflated lips and almost no external nose, really, just nostril cavities. Locals (who have known of this species for a long time, as is usually with species “new” to science), claim that when it rains, these cavernous nostrils are  … Read more

Blogs A warm welcome to Tara LaForce, whose blog A question of energy began on Nature Network this week. Tara is a researcher in a CO2 storage research group at Imperial College and has previously worked with Lou Woodley and Joanna Scott organising a series of lectures in Second Life on low carbon energy. Her first post Love miles and carbon credits considers the moral dilemmas associated with the carbon footprint you accumulate when travelling to see loved ones over the festive period: . … So, what is an ardent supporter of low-carbon lifestyles to do about my love miles?  Read more

Blogs A warm welcome to Karen Vancampenhout, whose blog Down to Earth began on Nature Network this week. As her blog title hints, Karen is a soil scientist, working at postdoc level in the University of Leuven, Belgium. Before digging into her subject in more detail, one of Karen’s opening posts shared tips on dealing with tricky reviewer comments : …you start changing the easy stuff until you’re left with a few stubborn comments. Those probably are very accurate but would take weeks to put right… So you invoke the first big escape button of scientific writing: “The reviewer raises  … Read more