Listening to my collegues in Nature discussing the papers that get submitted to our journals is like listening to another language. People accuse geeks, like me, of speaking in an unpenetratable language, but ours is mostly about making human behaviours possible, not the internals of life.
I can point at a database table and say this represents your address and this is the relationship to your name. Certainly I'm at a loss sometimes when trying to follow along. Biochemistry is more mystifying than ruby or folksonomies.
Recently in Nature Category
I've spent the past six months being pretty busy, in pubic, what with sorting out our house and then Oscar arriving. However, I've been pretty quiet about my work at Nature, pretty quiet in general, actually. One of the reasons has just become public. Nature Network Boston, a social network or community site aimed at scientists, in the Boston area.
I'm quite excited about the project. I think that more specialist community sites have real strengths, because you can workout the real things that your community wants to do. I've had a lot of fun developing this site, from the wireframes in Omnigraffle to working with LouiseC, LouiseM, Tom, Mat, Matt, Corie, Margaret, Joy and Stephania. Developing in Rails was really productive, too.
A more considered launch announcement is on my team's weblog. We have a range of other products for scientists on Launchpad if you are interested.
We're hiring more Product development managers at Naure, so if you want an opportunity to design web applications / products and are keen on science then read Timo's entry on nascent, our web technology weblog and apply before the 10th March. I'm having a great time there and am happy to talk to you if you are interested in applying.
