ngeo-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Nature Geoscience manuscript for Nature house style, accessibility to non-specialists, precise terminology, and calibrated Earth-science claims. Polishes language; does not restructure the result or manage the length budget.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nature Geoscience Writing Style (ngeo-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Prose is wordy, hedged, or dense with subfield jargon - An oceanographer, geodynamicist, or atmospheric scientist outside your subfield would stumble on the opening - Terminology or units are inconsistent, or acronyms are undefined on first use - Claims over- or under-reach relative to the evidence and its uncertainty - You are in late polish, after the result, Methods, and figures are stable ## Nature house-style essentials - **Accessible to non-specialists.** Nature editors substantially edit for this; write so that any Earth scientist — not just your subfield — can follow the opening and the significance. This is the single most distinctive style demand. - **Finding-first, active voice** where it sharpens meaning. "We find that ..." / "The record shows ..." beats passive circumlocution. The abstract uses "Here we show". - **Define every acronym and symbol on first use**; keep terminology consistent across main text, Methods, figures, and SI. - **SI units, consistent significant figures**, and every quantity with its uncertainty. - **British or American spelling** consistently (Nature accepts either — pic
- When to trigger
- Nature house-style essentials
- Concision and de-jargoning moves
- Readability for a broad Earth-science audience
- Precision discipline (Earth-science specifics)
- Worked micro-rewrite (Nature register)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a Nature Geoscience manuscript for Nature house style, accessibility to non-specialists, precise terminology, and calibrated Earth-science claims. Polishes language; does not restructure the result or manage the length budget.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.