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World View |
Scientists: don’t feed the doubt machine
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
- Cecília Tomori
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Career Column |
Tips for collaborating with scientists, from a philosopher
Make language inclusive and agree on your aims in advance.
- Michael Paul Nelson
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News |
Climate change, science and COP26: have your say
As countries prepare to negotiate over climate action at the COP26 summit, Nature takes readers’ temperature and questions.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Technology Feature |
Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness
Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.
- Alla Katsnelson
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News |
African languages to get more bespoke scientific terms
Many words common to science have never been written in African languages. Now, researchers from across Africa are changing that.
- Sarah Wild
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Correspondence |
Richly resourced researchers: work with developing-world scientists
- Brady Lund
- & Amrollah Shamsi
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World View |
Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless
Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands.
- Lee McIntyre
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Career Column |
Radio days: science-communication tips from a panel-show scientist
Psychologist Ann-Marie Creaven regularly discusses her research on Ireland’s most listened-to station.
- Ann-Marie Creaven
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Career Column |
How to get media coverage and boost your science’s impact
A good communications strategy can get your research seen by decision makers, says Rebecca Fuoco.
- Rebecca Fuoco
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Career Column |
Seek diversity to solve complexity
A wide range of perspectives brings unique insight to societal problems, says Katrin Prager.
- Katrin Prager
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Technology Feature |
Digital secrets of successful lab management
Group leaders say these tools keep their research groups running smoothly.
- Kendall Powell
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Article |
Past, present and future stars that can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet
The Gaia database is used to identify stars from which astronomers on orbiting planets could see Earth transiting the Sun in the past, present and future.
- L. Kaltenegger
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Career Column |
Better together: collaborative spaces can inspire scientists of all ages
An area where researchers can gather and informally discuss ideas is the best way to produce innovative inventions, argues Ethan N. Gotian.
- Ethan N. Gotian
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Career Feature |
‘We need to talk’: ways to prevent collaborations breaking down
Scientists who plan to partner on a research project should identify pressure points and consider a team charter at the outset.
- Virginia Gewin
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Correspondence |
Deploy international satellite monitoring to safeguard forests
- Ricardo M. O. Galvão
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News |
‘It’s a minefield’: COVID vaccine safety poses unique communication challenge
Poll on vaccine hesitancy demonstrates the extraordinary predicament researchers face in transmitting risk information during a pandemic.
- Ariana Remmel
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Book Review |
From spoons to semiconductors — we are what we make
Through a tour of ten materials, a scientist explores knowing through doing.
- Anna Novitzky
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Correspondence |
India: draft science policy calls for public engagement
- Abhay S. D. Rajput
- & Sangeeta Sharma
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Career Guide |
Linguistic tricks to grab your online audience’s attention
Virtual meetings can suck the life out of a presentation. Pausing, probing and varying your pitch will keep your muted listeners hooked.
- Valerie Fridland
- & Ruth Gotian
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Article |
Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
Surveys and a field experiment with Twitter users show that prompting people to think about the accuracy of news sources increases the quality of the news that they share online.
- Gordon Pennycook
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Career Column |
Five tips for understanding and managing your emotions to build flourishing connections
Emotional intelligence is a crucial component of successful professional relationships. Here’s how to boost yours.
- Michelle Shirak
- & Ruth Gotian
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Career Column |
How I advocate the importance of vaccines to my Black family
My community has a deep-rooted, justified, historical mistrust of human experimentation and scientific programmes. Here’s how I’m making a difference.
- Ty Fletcher-Beals
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Correspondence |
Pandemic: public feeling more positive about science
- Eric Allen Jensen
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News |
Scientists want virtual meetings to stay after the COVID pandemic
A Nature poll shows that a year of online research conferences has brought big benefits, but blending them with in-person meetings in future will be a challenge.
- Ariana Remmel
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Editorial |
Collaborations with artists go beyond communicating the science
Scientists and artists are working together as never before, finds a Nature poll. Both sides need to invest time, and embrace surprise and challenge.
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A year of virtual science conferences: how are you managing?
Nature is polling readers about the move to online meetings during the COVID pandemic.
- Ariana Remmel
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Career Feature |
How to shape a productive scientist–artist collaboration
Researchers and artists reflect on the partnerships that have created career opportunities and forged a deeper public understanding of science.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
The future of grant proposals is video
Written grant proposals are inefficient to prepare and review, and scoring is notoriously unreliable. It’s time to consider audio-visual alternatives.
- Michael Doran
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Career Column |
Lifelong lessons from my unexpected encounter with a synchrotron
Biomedical scientist Vladimira Foteva didn’t imagine she would be working with physicists at an Australian particle accelerator when she began her PhD, but the experience taught her the value of collaboration across disciplines.
- Vladimira Foteva
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Career News |
Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Referees for the US National Institutes of Health report engaging less during virtual panel meetings — but most think review quality doesn’t suffer.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Correspondence |
Storytelling can be a powerful tool for science
- Joshua Ettinger
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Nature Podcast |
Our podcast highlights of 2020
The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Career Feature |
Ways to look after yourself and others in 2021
Scientists offer their views on what’s important for the coming year.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
Five steps for networking during a pandemic
Here’s how to build your professional support team when you can’t meet others in person.
- Zachary Turnbull
- & Ruth Gotian
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Career Feature |
How to shift into COVID-19 research
Scientists who aren’t virologists or vaccinologists can still make crucial contributions to the global effort to battle SARS-CoV-2.
- Amy DePaul
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Comment |
Five rules for evidence communication
Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade.
- Michael Blastland
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World View |
To counter conspiracy theories, boost well-being
It is better to stop misinformation taking root than to try to weed it out.
- Aleksandra Cichocka
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Correspondence |
Satellite megaclusters could fox night-time migrations
- Chris Lintott
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Career Column |
I’m not contributing to coronavirus research, and that’s okay
Deanna Montgomery realizes she doesn’t need to be at a laboratory bench to use her scientific experience — or to make a difference.
- Deanna Montgomery
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Career Q&A |
How the coronavirus pandemic is changing virtual science communication
Researchers flocked to join Skype a Scientist after COVID-19 closed their labs. The squid biologist who founded it explains how the science-communication platform has adapted.
- Nikki Forrester
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Career Column |
Coronavirus diaries: social media in an unsocial age
John Tregoning confronts social-media jealousy in the age of coronavirus.
- John Tregoning
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Comment |
Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto
Pandemic politics highlight how predictions need to be transparent and humble to invite insight, not blame.
- Andrea Saltelli
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- & Paolo Vineis