As you already may know, we are looking for a new team member to join @Giulia_Pacc and me @NatRevMater! Are you thinking of applying ( https://bit.ly/39j9sJJ ), but are not yet sure what a Nature Reviews Materials editor actually does every day? A thread (1/n)

First and foremost, we care about Reviews (shocking!) We identify topics and authors, discuss with the team, work with authors to get the manuscript in the best possible shape before peer-review and edit, edit edit (tbc) (2/n)

We work with our awesome art editor @GurrCharlotte on the figures! Yeah, that can take some time, but it's worth it - what is a Review without great figures? (3/n)

Of course, we read a lot of primary research literature, attend (virtual) conferences, talks and seminars, talk to researchers, basically, we want to know what is going on in materials science and who does what (4/n)

And we edit – a lot! Once authors and referees are all happy with the article, we edit it line-by-line for structure, clarity, language. We want every Review article to be AWESOME...and then...drum roll....we PUBLISH (5/n)

Of course, we also organize peer-review, assess referee reports, guide the authors through the rebuttal, and (here are the good news – sorry research journals), we do not often reject papers (of course, this happens, but much less than in primary research journals! (6/n)

In addition to Reviews, we also commission Comments and other front-half content, for example https://go.nature.com/3ptHJM1 . We discuss these topics within the team, and commissioning Comments is a lot of fun and a really interesting part of the work (7/n)

Every month, we also write a Research Highlight on a cool paper that we like – so, again, we are reading, writing, reading, writing (did I mention editing?) (8/n)

Sometimes, we also write Editorials to discuss important topics in materials science, interesting Reviews or to introduce a Focus Issue – speaking of, yes, we also do Focus Issues https://go.nature.com/2KVbczs  (9/n)

We also teach Nature Masterclasses, give talks at conferences, visit research labs (please please we want to this soon again), attend conferences and talk to as many as scientists as we can (10/n)

So, how does that sound? Do you love research, but want to explore options outside academia? (been there for quite a while as well, and, well, yes…) Here is the link to the application: https://bit.ly/39j9sJJ  (and that’s all)