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Science bloggers fleeing
#Pepsigate or otherwise looking for a new network to call their own might look to one of the world's most prestigious science publications
Nature.com to establish an online home. Hidden deep within Nature's website is a budding social network for scientists called
Nature Network. It's been 'budding' for a few years actually, but the latest incarnation features on online collection of scientist profiles, forums, and private groups called 'workbenches,' that can be created by network members. The site is intended to be a website for professional researchers, unlike Facebook or MySpace, where scientists can gather together to share information and collaborate. Curiously, the project is so under-the-radar that there isn't a single link to the network from the Nature.com homepage. Nevertheless, Nature claims to have over 25,000 members in the network, including its stable of science bloggers. Some of the more active bloggers include
GrrlScientist, formerly of ScienceBlogs, and Stephen Curry, a structural biologist at Imperial College London, who blogs at
Reciprocal Space. Even I have a new personal science blog about geophysics and being a scientist at
Propagating Waves.
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