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Stimulating BrainsAuthor: Andreas Horn
Andreas Horn interviews experts in the field of deep brain stimulation, noninvasive neuromodulation, functional brain imaging and neuroanatomy. Join us on our quest to interact with the human brain and thank you for your interest in science! Andreas Horn, M.D., Ph.D., directs the institute for network stimulation and is a professor for computational neurology at University Cologne. Language: en Genres: Natural Sciences, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#77: Mary Elizabeth Sutherland — Nature, editorial judgment, and the future of scientific publishing
Monday, 27 April, 2026
In this episode of Stimulating Brains, I’m honored to speak with Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, a Deputy Editor at Nature whose areas of responsibility include cognitive neuroscience and a broad range of the behavioural and social sciences. If you work with clinical or human neuroscientific data in the field of brain stimulation and choose to submit to Nature, chances are high that Mary Elizabeth will handle your work.Before moving into scientific publishing, she studied at Cornell, completed her PhD at McGill, and did postdoctoral work in Santiago, Chile. Her own research background includes auditory cognitive neuroscience and music cognition. I’m especially looking forward to talking with her about what the job of a Nature editor actually looks like, how editorial decisions are made in a journal with limited space and broad ambition, how human studies are evaluated in that setting, and where scientific publishing may be heading next.The conversation moves through career paths into editorial work, the day-to-day work of a Nature editor, how scientists become professional editors, and the bar for publishing in Nature, with an emphasis on the choices, constraints, and judgments that shape Mary Elizabeth Sutherland's work.
