From the Blogosphere | Nature


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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe In something of a role reversal, graduate student Shirley Wu motivated her adviser, Russ Altman, chair of bioengineering at Stanford


University in Palo Atlo, California, to get writing — on the blogosphere. Her encouragement has won the duo Nature Network's Science Blogging Challenge


(http://network.nature.com/announcements/36), earning them an invitation to the SciFoo 2009 'unconference'. The blogging challenge was launched to spur more senior scientists to


communicate online as well as to raise the visibility of science blogging. In a post on his blog Building Confidence (http://rbaltman.wordpress.com) that caught the judges' eyes, Altman


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