Soapbox Science

He speaks to Alex Jackson about his lifelong passion for science.  Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/02/26/portrait-of-a-chemist

Jonathan Stone is a PhD researcher at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, working in volcanology and disaster risk reduction.  His research focuses on the interactio...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2014/11/27/citizen-science-in-the-shadows-of-volcan-tungurahua

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist and Executive Director of the Waitt Institute. Johnson’s mission is to collect, create, actualize and amplify the best ideas in ocean conserva...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2015/02/27/empowering-communities-to-restore-their-oceans

Guest post by Naomi Marks, project communications manager at the Institute of Development Studies. She managed the communications for the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and now ...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/06/08/celebrating-impact-how-multidisciplinary-one-health-research-produced-results-for-real-change-in-the-real-world

Melanoma patients with genetic variants in the ‘red hair gene’, MC1R, have more mutations in their cancers compared to patients without such variants, found a study published in Nature Commun...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/08/09/genetic-variants-in-red-hair-gene-associated-with-increased-number-of-skin-cancer-mutations

“Very often the famous names we know and read about in science are not those of women,” says Professor Jo Dunkley. “To get more young girls studying the subject, we must change cultural per...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/11/16/the-astrophysicist-on-a-mission-to-get-more-women-into-physics

Earlier in 2016 Scientific Reports celebrated its fifth anniversary. You can view our interactive infographic and blogs marking this occasion here.  Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/12/21/looking-back-the-mystery-of-knut-the-famous-polar-bear

Earlier in 2016 Scientific Reports celebrated its fifth anniversary. You can view our interactive infographic and blogs marking this occasion here.  Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/12/29/looking-back-toxic-pcb-levels-in-european-orcas-and-other-dolphins

Here Professor Kaufman talks about the importance of community-endorsed data compilations for accelerating discovery in paleoclimate science. He helped coordinate an international consortium that...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2017/07/11/bookkeeping-or-science-whats-behind-a-paleo-data-compilation

Vanessa Smith is a patient activist working to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the importance of the patient voice within the medical and research community. V...

https://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/02/02/connecting-patients-and-clinicians-why-patient-perspectives-matter-in-research