By nature.com Communities Team on 28 Nov 2011
Happy Thanksgiving Scitable’s blogger Eric Sawyer has been wishing his readers happy Thanksgiving, a traditional US celebration involving lots of eating. He looks at the merriments with a scientific twist explaining that, thanks to science, we now know the DNA sequences of many of the dishes sitting on the Thanksgiving table. He summarises a few of the foodie delights in his post: Turkey is the obvious place to start. The genome of the domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was reported in PLoS Biology in 20101, finding about 16,000 genes. As part of the analysis, they compared the genomes of turkeys and … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 18 Nov 2011
Ornithology This week, GrrlScientist discusses how Natural History collections are important and can be used to research diseases. She presents us with a video which takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour through the largest and most complete ornithology collection in the world: Birds of paradise, courtesy of AMNH, 9 November 2010. Image: Matthew Wills (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License). Safe Spaces This week’s guest blogger is Rosemary Randall, a psychotherapist, founder of the community-based charity Cambridge Carbon Footprint and the nationally acclaimed Carbon Conversations project. She argues for the importance of Safe Spaces when tackling difficult-to-discuss … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 17 Nov 2011
For those who are interested in scientific events in France, we would like to alert you to a new public calendar detailing events in and around the Paris area. Read more
Posted in Science calendars | Tagged calendars, Paris
By nature.com Communities Team on 17 Nov 2011
Neuroscience 2011 is this year’s key conference for neuroscientists across the globe. Arranged by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the event took place from November 12th – 16th, in Washington, DC. To complement this event, NPG’s Neuroscience blog, Action Potential been hosting a special series of guest posts from some of the attendees. Action Potential’s editor, Noah Gray, has created a Google + circle listing the guest bloggers and you can also follow the hashtag #NPGsfn11 on Twitter to share in the discussion. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 16 Nov 2011
Neuroscience 2011 is this year’s major event for neuroscientists from around the world. Organised by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the event took place from November 12th – 16th, in Washington, DC. To tie in with this, some of the attendees have been sharing their observations from the event in an exclusive series of guest posts on NPG’s Neuroscience blog, Action Potential. Here we share a round-up of some of the #NPGsfn11 guest posts. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Nov 2011
This is the weekly round-up of the best content on the Nature Network, Scitable and NPG staff blogs. We now also create a weekly Communities Happenings post where you can read more about events such as Science Online NYC, tweetups, and which conferences NPG staff are attending. We also include social media news and occasional science writing-related job opportunities at NPG. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Nov 2011
Conference updates This month you can find editors from Nature Publishing Group at some high profile conferences. Firstly we will be attending Neuroscience 2011, this year’s main event for neuroscientists from around the world. Organised by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the event is taking place from November 12th – 16th, in Washington, DC. To tie in with this, editors, research scientists and bloggers will be sharing their insights on varied topics and sessions from the event through a special series of guest posts on the Nature Neuroscience blog, Action Potential. A team from Nature Publishing Group will also have … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Nov 2011
On Thursday evening, we hosted the sixth installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. The topic for debate this month was, “In the news, but not reviewed” and the panel featured: … Read more
Posted in SpotOn NYC (SoNYC) | Tagged #SoNYC, peer review
