<i>Nature</i> Appoints its First Female Editor

Not sure if anyone can say with certainty that there had been a glass ceiling at Nature . If there was, it has finally cracked open. The journal has announced that Magdalena Skipper, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Nature Communications , has been named the new editor-in-chief of Nature . Dr Skipper will be only the eighth editor-in-chief in the journal’s 149-year history and the first to come from a life sciences background. Dr. Skipper, who will also become the first female editor-in-chie