{"id":1048,"date":"2011-12-20T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:04:37","slug":"introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-iv-%e2%80%93-the-stepwise-blog-by-nature-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2011\/12\/20\/introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-iv-%e2%80%93-the-stepwise-blog-by-nature-protocols","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the nature.com blogs IV \u2013 the Stepwise blog by Nature Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Over the next week or so here on Of Schemes and Memes we\u2019re introducing you to all the blogs on the new nature.com blogs site. We started off with the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2011\/12\/16\/introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-i-the-news-blog\">\u00a0News blog<\/a>, followed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2011\/12\/19\/introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-ii-%E2%80%93-the-spoonful-of-medicine-blog-by-nature-medicine\">Spoonful of Medicine<\/a>, from\u00a0<em>Nature Medicine <\/em>and\u00a0the <a title=\"Introducing the Sceptical Chymist\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2011\/12\/19\/introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-iii-%E2%80%93-the-sceptical-chymist-blog-by-nature-chemistry\">Sceptical Chymist<\/a> from <em>Nature Chemistry<\/em>. Now we hear from the team at Nature Protocols who present the renamed Stepwise blog&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stepwise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Firstly: \u00a0Welcome to<a title=\"Stepwise\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Stepwise<\/a>, an essential stop on your journey to finding and sharing great scientific protocols! Around the table on our end are: \u00a0Chris Surridge (The Chief), Katharine Barnes, Dot Clyde, Hannah Clarke and Bronwen Dekker, the editors from <a title=\"Nature Protocols\" href=\"https:\/\/www.natureprotocols.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Protocols<\/a> and the guardians of the <a title=\"Protocols Exchange\" href=\"https:\/\/protocols.nature.com\" target=\"_blank\">Protocol Exchange<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe first blog post for the Nature Protocols blog was in May 2010, and asked the very important question: <a title=\"What should we call our blog?\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2010\/05\/24\/hey-look-nature-protocols-has-blog\" target=\"_blank\">What should we call our blog<\/a>?\u00a0While we all agreed that out blog should have an outstanding name, we were not able to get terribly much further than \u201cNature Protocols Blog\u201d until Dot looked up from her computer in a commissioning meeting and said: *Stepwise*!<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to share news, helpful hints on how to use our site, comments about our protocols, or give updates from conferences.<br \/>\nThese are handily organised into the following categories:<br \/>\n&#8211; Hints and Wrinkles<br \/>\n&#8211; News and Updates<br \/>\n&#8211; Spotlights<br \/>\n&#8211; There and Back Again<\/p>\n<p>Here are some example posts that highlight what we are all about:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Recipes for research\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2010\/08\/22\/recipes-for-research\" target=\"_blank\">Recipes for Research<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The arrival of guidelines for reporting experiments\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2011\/03\/18\/the-arrival-of-guidelines-for-reporting-experiments\" target=\"_blank\">The arrival of guidelines for reporting experiments<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Focusing on stem cells\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2011\/05\/17\/focusing-on-stem-cells\" target=\"_blank\">Focusing on stem cells<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Nature Protocols Roundup\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2011\/08\/22\/nature-protocols-roundup\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Protocols Roundup<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Notes from EMBO meeting\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2011\/09\/27\/notes-from-the-3rd-embo-meeting-vienna\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from the 3rd EMBO meeting, Vienna<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Update on inserting images into Exchange Protocols\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/stepwise\/2011\/09\/13\/update-on-inserting-images-into-exchange-protocols\" target=\"_blank\">Update on inserting images into Exchange Protocols<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have quite an active twitter account for up-to-the-minute news about published protocols, and other things we happen to find interesting.\u00a0Follow us \u00a0at: <a title=\"Nature Protocols Twitter account\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NatureProtocols\" target=\"_blank\">@NatureProtocols<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to contact us you can also email: protocols@nature.com:protocols@nature.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next week or so here on Of Schemes and Memes we\u2019re introducing you to all the blogs on the new nature.com blogs site. We started off with the\u00a0News blog, followed by the\u00a0Spoonful of Medicine, from\u00a0Nature Medicine and\u00a0the Sceptical Chymist from Nature Chemistry. Now we hear from the team at Nature Protocols who present the renamed Stepwise blog\u2026&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2011\/12\/20\/introducing-the-nature-com-blogs-iv-%e2%80%93-the-stepwise-blog-by-nature-protocols#wpn-more-1048\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-com-blogs-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}