By nature.com Communities Team on 29 Apr 2013
Thursday was #SoNYC’s 2nd birthday and we celebrated in style with a social media-themed event! Read more
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By Chris Clough on 26 Apr 2013
It’s high time for another Friday quiz – and have your passports at the ready as we go globetrotting this week, with each round based on a different country’s science and scientists. We start off with a trip to France. Bon voyage, quizzers. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 23 Apr 2013
For the next week, content on the SpotOn website will be focused on a series of case studies about using social media for science outreach. For details of what to expect from the series, check out our overview. The full list of these #reachingoutsci posts, as they’re published, can be found here. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 23 Apr 2013
A few weeks ago, we announced our intention to celebrate SpotOn NYC’s 2nd birthday with our biggest event-related series of blog posts yet: curating a collection of case studies of how scientists and science communicators have been using social media for science outreach. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 19 Apr 2013
Bioengineered kidney makes urine after transplantation … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 18 Apr 2013
Kerri Smith presents and produces Nature’s podcasts and the award-winning NeuroPod, and occasionally reports for the News section. She joined Nature as an intern in 2006 after completing an MSc in science communication at Imperial College London. In the past she has contributed to New Scientist and the Times. Kerri has a degree in human sciences and another MSc, in neuroscience, both from the University of Oxford. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 15 Apr 2013
Guest post by Adam Rutherford … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 15 Apr 2013
SciLogs.com, which will celebrate its first anniversary in July, launched on the premise that bloggers elicit discussions around which communities form. Creating communities not only adds value to discussions, by allowing various people to contribute their opinions and expertise, but also helps to propagate science to more people. SciLogs.com is part of the wider SciLogs initiative, a collection of science blogging networks in different languages, including English, German, Dutch, Spanish with more in the pipeline. SciLogs.com, the English language branch, is spearheaded by German publisher Spektrum der Wissenschaft in collaboration with nature.com and is one of Nature Publishing Group’s four science blogging networks. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 15 Apr 2013
In a jam-packed blogging week, we hosted two Soapbox Science guest posts. Firstly, we heard from Dr Gianni Lo Iacono, a mathematical modeller at the University of Cambridge. He talks about interdisciplinary research and what it means to him. Secondly, Sharon Levy a freelance science writer, looks at whether it’s possible to raise the woolly mammoth from its Pleistocene grave: … Read more
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By Chris Clough on 12 Apr 2013
Welcome to another Friday quiz, and apologies for the somewhat intermittent service of late. If your brow has been stubbornly unfurrowed for longer than you’d wish, then today’s selection of testers ought to rectify that. We begin with the cheery subject of death. Read more
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