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SciBarCamp!! This week saw the arrival of the geek fest, “unconference” SciBarCamp. Several of our bloggers have been revelling in its success, summarising the jam-packed sciency event. Eva Amsen’s post, SciBarCamb with a bunch of boffins, is littered with entertaining pictures of the event and David De Roure’s post, Balloon DNA attends SciBarCamb, discusses some of the interesting sessions that were on offer. Scitable blog ConferenceCast, have also provided a synopsis: SciBarCamb was well received by all and is a brilliant demonstration that all you really need to get interesting dialogue going is a group of people and somewhere for  … Read more

Welcome to a new blogger A warm welcome to Tine Jassens, whose new blog, Musings and Moths, began on Nature Network this week. Tine is a veterinarian student and will be blogging about subjects related to her PhD, including veterinary medicine, pharmaceutical science, oncology, and science communication. Her first post, Can you hear that SOS? considers suicide and suicide survivors: But to survivors of suicide SOS means something entirely different. I find it quite ironic that the abbreviation for suicide survivors is regarded throughout the world as a call for help. Ironic, and suitable. Because survivors of suicide tend to  … Read more