the many flavors of science blogging

The Many Flavors of Science Blogging

A Science Blog is:

- written by a scientist

or

- covers (mostly) science-related topics

or

- both

Bora Zivkovic

October 2007

Science Blogging – What It Can Be

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/08/science_blogging_what_it_can_b.php

Translating Scientese into English

http://sunaddict86.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-didnt-bear-cross-road.html

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/07/why_are_flounder_funny_looking.php

Media Watchdogs

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2007/10/appendix-story-in-need-of-asterix-and.html

http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/difference-between-fish-and-humans.html

Classroom Blogs

http://genetics.pharyngula.org/

http://coturnix.wordpress.com/

Combating Pseudoscience

http://www.pandasthumb.org/

http://skeptico.blogs.com/

Affecting Policy

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/08/this_prism_does_not_turn_white.php

http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html

Scientists are not humorless automatons

http://anteriorcommissure.blogspot.com/2007/10/lap-dancers-take-note-of-your-cycle.html

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/10/interspecies_communication_via.php

Fusing Science and Art

http://bioephemera.com/

http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/

History of Science

http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/an-illustrated-history-of-trepanation/

http://laelaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/homo-sapiens-the-evolution-of-what-we-think-about-who-we-are/

Blogging From The Field

http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2007/08/visiting-wenas-mammoth.html

http://bonobohandshake.blogspot.com/

Serious, citable stuff

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/08/blogpost_as_a_scientific_refer.php

http://circadiana.blogspot.com/2005/02/clock-tutorial-6-to-entrain-or-not-to.html

Hypotheses and Data - occasionally

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/09/influence_of_light_cycle_on_do.php

http://circadiana.blogspot.com/2006/04/chossats-effect-in-humans-and-other.html

Hypotheses and Data – daily: Open Notebook Science

http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/

Community publishing: Blog Carnivals

http://tangledbank.net/

http://oekologie.wordpress.com/

Pop-Mag Editors’ Blogs

http://scienceblogs.com/seed/

http://blog.sciam.com/

Publisher’s Blogs

http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/

http://www.plos.org/cms/blog

Fusion with OA published work

Find more blogs:

http://wiki.blogtogether.org/blogtogether/show/Science+bloggers

Come meet us in Real Life:

http://wiki.scienceblogging.com/scienceblogging/