What it’s like to be a Reviews editor
Have you ever wondered what reviews editors do? Chasing authors to submit and making edits to the text of the reviews? That is just a small part of it.
Interactions: John Hammersley
After a PhD in theoretical physics (specifically, holography and the ADS/CFT correspondence), John left academia and later co-founded Overleaf in 2012. He has been developing Overleaf ever since to bring it to more and more users.
Interactions: David Abergel
David Abergel is an Associate Editor at Nature Physics. Before joining Nature Physics in 2017, David carried out theoretical research on graphene and other two-dimensional crystals, and quantum topological materials.
Interactions: Vittoria Colizza
Vittoria Colizza is Research Director of the EPIcx lab at INSERM and Sorbonne Université.
Interactions: Bart Hoogenboom
Bart Hoogenboom is a professor of biophysics at University College London.
Interactions: Georgia Francis
Georgia Francis is a Senior Editorial Assistant for the Nature Reviews journals, who works hard to keep Nature Reviews Physics running smoothly.
Behind the Book | Interactions: Conversation with Martijn van Calmthout
Post by Christine Horejs, Nature Reviews Materials.
Interactions: Iulia Georgescu
Iulia Georgescu is the Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Physics. Previously, she was an editor of Nature Physics, where she managed to sneak in three original “Alice in wonderland” illustrations (1, 2, 3) and the self-declared best cover-line ever.
Interactions: Alba Diz-Muñoz
Alba Diz-Muñoz is a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. The Diz-Muñoz group studies the crosstalk between mechanical properties and signalling processes that drive morphogenetic processes and fate specification in immune cells, embryonic stem cells and zebrafish embryos.
Interactions: Abigail Klopper
Abigail Klopper is a Senior Editor at Nature Physics. She previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, where she pursued theoretical research in aspects of soft-matter and biological physics.
Heuristics for better figures
Post by Jesse L. Silverberg.
Here’s the tldr: (1) Images = Information, (2) Colour communicates meaning, (3) Understand the limits of visual communication, (4) Move through colour space deliberately to reduce complexity, (5) Combine #3 and #4 to pick your colours wisely.