By nature.com Communities Team on 31 Mar 2010
We’re now on day three of the Nature Network Easter Egg hunt. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 26 Mar 2010
Because Easter is coming, we’ve been hatching plans to host an Easter egg hunt with a difference. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 26 Mar 2010
Blogs This week’s great highlight was Ada Lovelace Day on March 24th. The day celebrates the contribution women have made to science and technology, and is an encouragement for bloggers everywhere to write about inspiring female researchers. Nature Network contributors didn’t disappoint. Eva Amsen champions Beatrix Potter, who initially attempted a career in botanical science: Beatrix Potter could draw scientifically accurate lichens as well as fluffy bunnies, but it was the latter that was more acceptable for women a century ago. Today, she would have been encouraged to study, to submit papers, attend meetings. Some fields are perhaps further behind … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 23 Mar 2010
Tomorrow (24 March) is Ada Lovelace Day. The second annual event celebrates the achievements of women in the fields of science, technology and engineering through the medium of the blog post. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 19 Mar 2010
Blogs We were delighted to welcome three new bloggers onto Nature Network this week. In no particular order… Grrl Scientist is a molecular evolutionary biologist with a side-penchant for birds. Even her profile picture is of an ornithological nature. You know just from the name of her blog, Maniraptora:Tastes Like Chicken, that you’re in for something a little different. Her early entries include a report on gender-bending chickens, a salvo against embargoes, and the mating habits of pipefish (which presumably do not taste of chicken). Kausik Datta, a postdoc at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, investigates host immune responses to … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 12 Mar 2010
Nature Network’s bloggers have been making good use of the new software we launched last week. The quality and quantity of new posts has been a joy to behold. So brace yourself for a long but excellent reading list. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Mar 2010
If you’ve been visiting Nature Network for a while, to write a blog, leave a comment, or simply to read, you will have noticed some rather obvious changes recently. Last week, our blogs moved to a new blogging platform: Movable Type 4. MT4 is a powerful platform with dozens of new features for bloggers, and commenters, to try out. We have compiled this guide to highlight some of these new features. The post is mostly aimed at current Nature Network bloggers, but some of the sections (such as embedding content) may also be of interest to commenters. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 05 Mar 2010
The week on Nature Network was dominated by a major transformation in our blogs section. For three years, we’ve been using a homegrown piece of software to present the daily scribblings of our bloggers. But the site is growing and required more sophisticated technology to handle everyone’s needs. So we’ve introduced a new blogging platform called Movable Type 4 (MT4) that allows bloggers to do much more with their posts. At the same time, the content has been moved into the same site as Nature’s staff blogs. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 02 Mar 2010
Nature Network turned three last month. During our early years, we’ve enjoyed thousands of illuminating, entertaining and sometimes controversial posts from our diverse pool of bloggers. Now, exciting new changes are afoot. Read more
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