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Dawn Levy, lead science writer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s physical-sciences directorate in Tennessee, notes that she has seen publicity help researchers to garner award nominations, speaking invitations, funding offers and research partnerships.

From Nature • Aug. 6, 2018

These led to the creation in 2009 of a dozen designated physical-sciences oncology centres; I led the Princeton Physical Sciences–Oncology Center, based in New Jersey, from 2009 to 2015. 

From Nature • Oct. 23, 2017

Dinah Loon is a physical-sciences subeditor at Nature.

From Nature • Dec. 6, 2016

“The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC.

From Nature • Oct. 12, 2011