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- Mark Fischetti – U.S. Hurricane Forecasts Could Be Better

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- Hilda Bastian – Dissecting the controversy about early psychological response to disasters and trauma

- Mark Farmer – Winning the War against Cervical Cancer

- Edward Frenkel – An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics

- Kate Clancy – Your Lady Parts Don’t Like It When You Get Sick: Relationships Between Immune Health and Reproductive Hormones

- David Wogan – What unconventional fuels tell us about the global energy system

- Kristen Weiss – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: A New Faculty Member on the Team

- Darren Naish – Wild wallabies in the UK

- Bora Zivkovic – Scitable blog network just got bigger and better than ever!

- Carin Bondar – 500 Million Years of Evolution in Under 4 Minutes

- DNLee – My Heart is in Oklahoma now #OklahomaStrong

- Kalliopi Monoyios – The SciArt Buzz: ScienceArt On Exhibit In May/June 2013

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik – Fat Tuesday: Hungry for love

- The Editors – Physics, Metaphysics and Cosmology Collide in New E-Book, Possibilities in Parallel: Seeking the Multiverse

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You may remember a few months ago when Nature Network and English-language version of SciLogs fused into a much better network, which you really should be following (and it’s easy, as we have a widget for them on our sidebar, scroll down a little and look to the right), the SciLogs.com.

The NPG editorial blogs can be found here. And there are also SciLogs networks in other languages and countries, including: German, Spanish and Dutch.

Today, I am very pleased to announce a big relaunch and expansion of one of our sister networks, the Nature Education’s blog network – Scitable.

Khalil A. Cassimally (who you already know as my co-blogger on The SA Incubator, and you may know is also the community manager of SciLogs.com) is the community manager of Scitable network. In his blog post today, Khalil describes what is new – 18 fantastic new bloggers were added to the already stellar line-up, making Scitable one of the most important blog networks to watch!

All the blogs – old and new – are now on the site, but individual new bloggers will publish their first posts gradually over the next few days, so keep a close eye on the network for the updates. Here are the new blogs:

Earthbound, geology group blog by Jon Tennant and Jane Robb

Saltwater Science, oceanography group blog by Sara Mynott, Alexis Rudd and Jessica Carilli

Why Science Matters, experimental biology blog by Luke De

Accumulating Glitches, evolution group blog by Sedeer el-Showk and Sarah Jane Alger

Eyes on Environment, environment group blog by Kate Whittington and Charles Ebikeme

The Success Code, mentorship blog by Bhavana Wiedmann

Brain Metrics, neuroscience group blog by Mark Stokes and Bradley Voytek

Mind Read, psychology group blog by Jordan Gaines and Dana Smith

Genetics Generation, ethics of genetics forum moderated by Laura Rivard

Pop, physics blog by James Keen

Postcards from the Universe, cosmology and astronomy blog by Bruce Braun

And don’t forget the old Scitable blogs either:

Student Voices, group blog which hosts students of all ages, managed by Kyle Hill (who you are already familiar with from his Overthinking It blog)

Bio 2.0, a synthetic biology blog by Eric Sawyer

Labcoat Life, analysing and putting science in perspective by Khalil A. Cassimally

Bioscience eLearning, the future of teaching using technology by Nick Morris

Green Science, a young conservationist’s take on, well, “green science,” by Samantha Jakuboski

Green Screen, technology’s potential impact on the environment-the good and the bad-by Whitney Campbell

The Promethean Cell, regenerative medicine blog by Ada Ao

Our Science, a blog about the science in everyday life by Naseem S

Cognoculture, a psychology and culture blog by Taylor Burns

The Artful Brain, a blog about our neural machine by Dave Deriso

Science In Africa, a forum moderated by Doaa Tawfik

Women in Science, a forum in association with the American Association of Univeristy Women (AAUW) co-currated by Laura Hoopes

ScholarCast, a blog contributed by invited science communicators and managed by Khalil A. Cassimally

ConferenceCast, conference blog managed by Jonathan Lawson

You can follow Scitable blogs on Twitter, as well as the Twitter list of all Scitable bloggers. Bookmark, subscribe, and keep checking in. This is a network to pay attention to!

- Patrick Mustain – Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry

- Gayle Sulik – Angelina Jolie and the One Percent

- Kacy Karlen – Sharing Science Research in the Age of Social Media

- Jeffrey A. Lieberman – DSM-5: Caught Between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice

- Jim Haw – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The 2013 Guam and Palau Expedition Begins

- Maureen McCarthy – Chimps in Uganda: Resilience

- Jennifer Frazer – For Plants, Polyploidy Is Not a Four-Letter Word

- Julie Hecht – Dogs and Cats in the Home: Happiness for All?

- Scicurious – Becoming an individual twin isn’t about genetics or environment, but how you experience them and Friday Weird Science: What’s your fart volume?

- Ashutosh Jogalekar – Cancer, genomics and technological solutionism: A time to be wary

- Ferris Jabr – Why Feeling Anxious About a Vaccine Makes It More Effective (And Other Benefits of Short-Term Stress)

- Judy Stone – The s**t hits the fan – FDA, INDs, and fecal microbiota transplants

- Dana Hunter – 33 Years Ago Today…

- Kyle Hill – The Overwhelming Odds Of Climate Change and Science in Aggregate: Week 20

- Katherine Harmon – Unusual Offshore Octopods: The See-Through “Glass” Octopus [Video]

- Katie McKissick – Self-Publishing Tools for Science Artists

- Christina Agapakis – A Beautiful Fungus Graveyard

- John R. Platt – Deadly Snakes, Ugly Critters, Leonardo DiCaprio and Other Links from the Brink

- Jennifer Ouellette – Physics Week in Review: May 18, 2013

- John Matson – See Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Tightest Night Sky Cluster until 2026

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- Jag Bhalla – What Rational Really Means

- Samuel Jones – Bush-crow diaries: Settling in with the Borana

- Kalliopi Monoyios – Is Homosexuality Natural? Yes. So is male lactation.

- Jamil Zaki – Eliminating political divides through morality: The case of climate change

- Kyle Hill – Treebeard Joins the NRA

- Alex Wild – On not overdiffusing flash in macro photography

- DNLee – #DispatchesDNLee: Giant African Land Snails

- Ashutosh Jogalekar – An invasive ladybug uses a biological weapon to kill off competitors

- Jennifer Ouellette – C’mon Baby Light My (Magnetic) Fire

- Bora Zivkovic – Bora’s Picks (May 17th, 2013)

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik – Vision is all about change

- Eric R. Olson – Why Barns Are Red, and More – The Countdown, Episode 22

- Larry Greenemeier – With Drones Circling, How Should Lawmakers Respond?

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- Dennis Waters – Why Do Sequences Think They Are So Special?

- Kyle Hill – Death By Lens Flare: Drink Into Darkness

- Scott Barry Kaufman – Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special

- Maria Konnikova – Want to be happier and live longer? Protect green spaces

- David Wogan – Why we know about the greenhouse gas effect

- Robynne Boyd – Summer of the Mosquito

- John R. Platt – What Do Tigers and Kiwi Have in Common? The Answer Lies in Their Genes

- DNLee – Charges dropped against #KieraWilmot, now let’s shower her with science love

- Darren Naish – These skulls are for talking about

- Ashutosh Jogalekar – Who’s the greatest American physicist in history?

- John Horgan – Should Research on Race and IQ Be Banned?

- Alex Wild – Thrifty Thursday: The Digital Herbarium

- John Matson – Citizen Scientists Track Light Pollution as Humanity Loses Touch with the Night Sky

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