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Nature Network takes a bite out of the Big Apple
PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
27 January 2009
Contact: Grace Baynes
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Nature Network, the professional networking website for scientists, today launches a 'hub' dedicated to New York City at http://network.nature.com/hubs/nyc/. The Nature Network New York City hub offers a dedicated blog, forum, jobs and event listings for the city's thriving scientific community.
New York City (NYC) joins London and Boston as the third Nature Network city hub, and is the first new hub since the global launch of Nature Network in March 2007. "We decided to launch a hub in New York because, of all the local communities using Nature Network, the NYC one has been the largest and most active," says Corie Lok, Nature Network's senior editor. "For the past nine months, New York scientists have been meeting monthly in pubs to socialize and network, and it's all been organized and advertised through Nature Network."
Two Columbia University-based scientists will help bring the community together by chronicling the NYC scientific scene. Caryn Shechtman, a fourth-year graduate student, and Barry Hudson, an associate research scientist, will blog about scientific life in the city, by covering scientific events, writing about local research, and profiling local researchers.
Nature Network is Nature Publishing Group's community website to help scientists meet, communicate and collaborate. The site, which has blogs, discussion forums, groups, and personal profiles, continues to enjoy steady growth, attracting about 1000 new registered users a month from around the world.
The Nature Network NYC forum will be the place where local scientists can, for example, share tips on living in the Big Apple. Researchers looking for a job in the NYC area can use the jobs feed from sister service
The Nature Network NYC events calendar will list local seminars, lectures, talks, and conferences of interest to scientists. Nature Network NYC users will be spoilt for choice as the city has an established science culture scene, including the annual World Science Festival and a concentration of world class research institutions. Prestigious universities and research institutions in NYC include Columbia, Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York University (NYU) and Rockefeller amongst many others.
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