A networking website aims to combine attributes of Facebook and Craigslist — enabling users to post entries and take part in discussions — to link scientists in North America and Latin America. The site (http://cienciamerica.org) was launched on 16 August by Timothy DeVoogd, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Over several months in Central and South America last year, DeVoogd discovered that Latin American and US scientists have little contact. “I met with at least 300 scientists and found that I was carrying information I thought they would know. They didn't,” he says. He created the website in Spanish and English to help scientists exchange information on findings, funding and political developments that could affect research.