We’ve had quite a few new bloggers added to our comfy NN roster in the last few weeks. I thought I would put the new kids on the block all in one place, give you an idea of who they are and what they will be writing about, so that you can check them out and welcome them to the NN blogspace. Here we go.

Loredana Vaccaro, a post-doc in Grenoble France. Loredana will be blogging about multidrug resistant strains of bacteria, as well as new sources of clean energy, the current subject of her post-doctoral research. Read her first post, Bacteria and Computers.

Robert Pinsonneault is a post-doc at University of California, San Francisco, USA. Most excellently timed with the upcoming US election, Robert will be blogging about politics and science policy, although quite pointedly, not about the science of politics. His first introductory post on his blog, The Political Animal, is A New Wonk in Town.

Heather Etchevers, a most lovely and active member of the NN community decided to cave into peer pressure (from myself and others) and start a blog on NN. She has been writing about science in France (she runs a lab at INSERM), developmental biology and stem cells, and other interesting science bits that she comes across. Her blog is called A Developing Passion.

Having completed a degree in film at University College for the Creative Arts, Farooq Khan went on to build a career in strategic research and analysis. He is now studying to be a complexity scientist and has been a member of the London School of Economics Complexity Group Network for over 6 years. His Complexity Science Blog will explore the field of complexity science. His first post is The journey begins. Destination: Unknown. With any luck, I will finally figure out what complexity science means after reading his blog.

Christoph Schmitt has just moved across an ocean for a post-doctoral position at University College London. He just finished his PhD work in Pharmacy in Vienna, and will be blogging about the transition to a new country, a new institution – and if that weren’t enough upheaval – a new lab. His first post, Entering the Blogosphere, can be found here. His blog is called A European Perspective, for, well, obvious reasons.

Caio Maximino is a neuroscience graduate student in Brazil, studying comparative psychology, neuroethology, and evolutionary physiology. He is currently researching the comparative psychology of predator avoidance in fish. He will be writing about the evolution of the brain and behavior (both things I personally need some schooling in). Go over and drop Caio a hello on his new NN blog, The Descent of the Brain.

I cannot pretend to write a better blurb than Carol Minton Morris, so I won’t. Here is a description of her new blog, Content Sausage, in her own words: “Excellent sausage can be made from unsavory bits of the whole hog, but does anyone really want to see how that’s done? Expect posts here from a web content maker’s kitchen prepared for those who are (mysteriously) eager to see how web content is made.”

Please go have a look, when you have a chance. Make the new kids feel welcome.