Nature Network featured in Guardian Unlimited last week. “Welcome to Facebook for professors, postdocs and PhDers in the sciences — otherwise known as Nature Network,” states the article.
Although Guardian reporter Jessica Shepherd can’t resist leading with the network’s more imaginative possibilities, notably romantic ones, the article sums up the service nicely, including this quote from Matt Brown, editor of Nature Network London: “Traditionally scientists have met, collaborated and swapped ideas through conferences and the pages of scholarly journals. These can be time consuming and rely to some extent on serendipity. Our vision for Nature Network is that every scientist in the world will have a personal profile on the site. Who knows, many years from now, traditional activities such as writing an academic paper could be peer-reviewed online.”
You can join Nature Network to blog, meet and discuss online for free. We hope you will try it out, as a hub for collaboration, to help your career prospects, or even to find a partner.

Nature 448, xi; 12 July 2007