Recent replies to "Welcome to London newcomers"

Reply from Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:12:22 -0000

Jump right in, James. Feel free to ask questions or give responses in any of our forums or blogs.

Reply from James stern

James stern — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:41:04 -0000

Hello all, am new to Nature, I hope to participate and learn in the process!

Reply from Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:43:50 -0000

Cheers Martin – you’d be more than welcome.

Sayandip – there are many routes into science writing. The two commonest ways would be:

1) Write for whoever you can, for free, to build up a portfolio. Good places to start are university magazines and even blogs (if well written and informative). Once you have a few ‘clips’ under your belt, you can approach more professional sources.

2) Join a course, such as Imperial’s Sci Com course (London). (You could ask questions on their forum: http://network.nature.com/london/group/ImperialSciCommers)

These give you plenty of experience and can often be taken as evening classes.

Hope that helps, and feel free to contact me directly if you’d like further advice (you can send me a message by clicking on my profile and following the link at top).

Reply from Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:36:32 -0000

Hello. I’ve just moved to London to work as an adviser on physical sciences, IT and communication in the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Prior to that I was writing and editing for Physics World magazine in Bristol, and before that doing a PhD in particle physics. I hope to come along to the next monthly drinks.

Reply from Sayandip Mukherjee

Sayandip Mukherjee — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:41:31 -0000

Hi Matt,

Seems like networking might be finally of some use outside killing the ” my samples are spinning” and “my media is warming up” times :-))...

I read the book called ” Outside the Ivory Tower” towards the end of my Ph.D from the States (Rutgers, NJ) and was very interested to consider an alternate career as a science-writer. Wondering if you could possibly shed some lights on the avenues available in and around London for that. Anyone else who is reading this, if you guys know anything, you are more than welcome to share it! Thanks in anticipation. Have a good week everyone.

Reply from Davide Rizzo

Davide Rizzo — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:47:49 -0000

Hi there! I am part of the Astrophysics group of Imperial College London and joined the Network literally minutes ago!
I am still taking my first tentative steps here, and look forward to meeting more people soon.
Davide :-)

Reply from Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:35:34 -0000

Hi Hsien. Good to see you on the Network. Feel free to ask any questions here.

Reply from Hsien-Hsien Lei

Hsien-Hsien Lei — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:25:23 -0000

Hello! Just wanted to say hi from Eye on DNA. I’m a biotech consultant based in London and wondering how everyone uses Nature Network.

Reply from Li Kim Lee

Li Kim Lee — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:51:00 -0000

It is rather useful to have this forum: I am hardly new to Nature Network but still have outstanding questions, or worries, I should say, about my degrees of freedom.

How informal can I be when writing on this site?

And how closely related to science does the content have to be?

Thanks!