Welcome to Episode 9 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Patrick Goymer, Chief Editor of Nature Ecology and Evolution.This week we enter the world of science publishing. Patrick tells us about his journey from a research career to an editor at Nature Reviews Genetics and Nature, and now chief editor at Nature Ecology and Evolution. We talk about what the day to day job of an editor at a scientific journal entails, what its been like to launch a new journal, and discuss some of the current issues in scientific publishing and peer review. As always you can contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (twitter.com/slightlyevolpod) or join on our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/664596143711550/). You can find both Patrick (twitter.com/PatrickGoymer) and Nature Ecology and Evolution on Twitter (twitter.com/NatureEcoEvo), and read more about the journal here (http://www.nature.com/natecolevol/).