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This week's article was: Leininger S, Urich T, Schloter M, Schwark L, Qi J, Nicol GW, Prosser JI, Schuster SC, Schleper C 2006. Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils. Nature 442:806-809. The title was initially a bit jargony for most of us, without the presence of a soil (or any type of) biologist in this week's ...

Today's articles: Webster, R. 2003. Let's re-write the scientific paper. European Journal of Soil Science, 54:215-218. Pannell, D. 2002. Prose, psychopaths and persistence: Personal perspectives on publishing. In  AARES 2002: the 46th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Canberra ACT, 13-15 ...

The UWA club barista was happy to sell coffee to non-members on the promise that a card-carrying one would soon arrive, and so our first meeting began. After the inevitable housekeeping issues were covered, we were discussing:Marris, E. 2006. Putting the carbon back: Black is the new green. Nature 442:624-626 (with supporting information from ...

Organising the first meeting was surprisingly straightforward. Nearly everyone interested could come at one of the offered times, so out first go at this is on Thursday 30 November, 10am at the UWA club. The coffee is reputedly quite drinkable . . . Our first article is:Marris, E. 2006. Putting the carbon back: Black is the new green. Nature ...

The text below is what I sent out to everyone in my Discipline a week ago. There wasn't an avalanche of interest but those who did want to participate seemed enthusiastic, which was encouraging. An intention of the group was (at least eventually) to encourage our own writing efforts. Perhaps by being inspired by research and getting ideas into ...