Staying Current withScience Blogs & Wikis

Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu>

Health Sciences Libraries, UM

May 30, 2007

© 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Science & Research on the Internet

“Certainly what people bring to the internet, such as their interest in science and how closely they follow scientific discoveries, shapes their online science habits.” Horrigan, John. The Internet as a Resource for

News and Information about Science. November 2006. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/191/report_display.asp

Science & Research on the Internet

“These 1,000 or so science blogs provide authoritative opinions about pressing issues in science, such as evolution or climate change, or aim to engage other scientists in open and frank discussions about the scientific literature or science policy. Because of their freewheeling nature, these blogs take scientific communication to a different level.” Bonetta, L. Scientists Enter the Blogosphere.

Cell 129(3) 4 May 2007:443-445.

Blogs

Blog was originally short for Web Log, and were used mostly as online equivalents of diaries, journals, or logged entries on specific topics.

Now blogs are used as content management systems, to create RSS feeds, inexpensive ways to design small web sites, and more.

Life in the Science Blogosphere

North Carolina Science Blogging Conference

The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006 by Bora Zivkovic, Editor (Book) in Medicine & Science

General Science Blogs

Method: http://science.blogdig.net/Science Blog:

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/ScienceBlogs.com:

http://scienceblogs.com/

General Science Blogs

Method: http://science.blogdig.net/

Blogs from Science Journals & Publishers Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science: http://www.badscience.net/ Cold Spring Harbor Protocols:

http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/ New Scientist: Short Sharp Science:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/ Wall Street Journal: Health: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/ Wired Science: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/ World Science: http://world-science-blog.blogspot.com/

Blogs from Science Journals & Publishers

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols: http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/

Blogs from Scientists & Researchers

A Scientist and the Web (Peter Murray Rust, Cambridge Center for Molecular Informatics): http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=345

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/

Pharyngula (Paul Z. Myers): http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Sandwalk, Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist (Laurence A. Moran): http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/

Blogs from Scientists & Researchers

Sandwalk, Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist (Laurence A. Moran): http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/

More Blogs from Scientists & Researchers Science & Politics (Bora Zivkovic):

http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/ SCLin’s neuroscience blog:

http://forebrain.blogspot.com/ Thus Spake Zuska (Suzanne E Franks):

http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska Useful Chemistry (Jean-Claude Bradley & Students):

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/ MORE: Bonetta, L. Scientists Enter the Blogosphere.

Cell 129(3) 4 May 2007:443-445.

Blogs from Scientists & Researchers

SCLin’s neuroscience blog: http://forebrain.blogspot.com/

Blogs from Scientists & Researchers

NOTE: Blogging in Teaching & Education

Useful Chemistry (Jean-Claude Bradley & Students): http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/

Blogs about Research

Peer-to-Peer: http://blogs.nature.com/peer-to-peer/

Blogs as Research

Blogical Construction -- On blogging as a pedagogical tool in writing classrooms. http://blogicalconstruction.blogspot.com/

Special Topics Blogs: Genomics

DNA direct talk: Your DNA, Your Health, Your Choices: http://talk.dnadirect.com/

Eye on DNA: http://www.eyeondna.com/ Genetics and Health (Hsien Hsien Lei, Ph.D.):

http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/ MedBioWorld: Post-Genomics, Forging a Connection Between

Research and Clinical Applications: http://www.medbioworld.com/postgenomics_blog/

Mendel's Garden: http://mendels-garden.blogspot.com/ The Personal Genome, Genomics as a medical tool and lifestyle

choice: http://www.thepersonalgenome.com/ What's Next in Health: Category: Gene Research:

http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/health/index.php?cat=61

Special Topics Blogs: Genomics

Eye on DNA: http://www.eyeondna.com/

Special Topics Blogs: Proteomics

Genomics Proteomics: http://genomics-proteomics.biotechnewstoday.com/

myProteome.com, The Proteomics IT Blog: http://www.myproteome.com/

Proteome Measures: http://proteomemeasures.blogspot.com/

Special Topics Blogs: Proteomics

myProteome.com, The Proteomics IT Blog: http://www.myproteome.com/

Special Topics Blogs: Bioinformatics

Biological Computations: http://bifo.livejournal.com/ Biological Informatics:

http://biologicalinformatics.blogspot.com/ Flags and Lollipops - Bioinformatics & Genomics News

and Views: http://www.ghastlyfop.com/blog Inforbiomatica: http://moseshohman.com/blog/ NodalPoint (A Bioinformatics Weblog):

http://www.nodalpoint.org/ Notes from the Biomass: http://nftb.net/ Propellor Twist, RNA & Bioinformatics research and

other interests: http://fjossinet.u-strasbg.fr/

Special Topics Blogs: Bioinformatics

Notes from the Biomass: http://nftb.net/

Special Topics Blogs: Nanotechnology Advanced Nanotechnology (Brian Wang):

http://advancednano.blogspot.com/ Foresight: Nanodot, the original nanotechnology

weblog: http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/ nano | public, a weblog of nanotechnology and

its impact on the public (Dietram A. Scheufele): http://nanopublic.blogspot.com/

Responsible Nanotechnology (World Care): http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog

Special Topics Blogs: Nanotechnology

Foresight: Nanodot, the original nanotechnology weblog: http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/

Special Topics Blogs: Clinical & Health Blogborygmi: Grand Rounds:

http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com/2004/09/grand-rounds-archive-upcoming-schedule.html

DB’s Medical Rants: http://www.medrants.com/ Family Medicine Notes: http://docnotes.net GruntDoc: http://www.gruntdoc.com/ Living Code (Richard Gayle):

http://www.corante.com/livingcode/ MedMusings (Enoch Choi, MD):

http://www.enochchoi.com/thoughts/

Special Topics Blogs: Clinical & Health

DB’s Medical Rants: http://www.medrants.com/

Finding Blogs Like These

BMJ: Blogs: http://blogs.bmj.com/ Method: http://science.blogdig.net/ Nature: Blogs: http://www.nature.com/blogs/ New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns ScienceBlogs.com Science & Politics:

http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/ Thinking Blogger Awards:

http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html

Finding Blogs Like These

Science & Politics: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2007/04/one-stop-shopping-for-framing-science.html

Finding Blogs Like These

ScienceBlogs.com

Finding Blogs: Searching for Blogs on a Topic

Technorati Blog Finder: Genomics: http://www.technorati.com/blogs/genomics

Mendel's Garden #2: The Best of Genetics Blogging (By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD): http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/07/01/mendels-garden-2-the-best-of-genetics-blogging/#more-919

Genetics and Health: Archive for the 'Featured Genetics and Health Blogs' Category (By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD): http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/category/genetics-blogging/featured-blogs/

Google: Blog Search: inblogtitle:"(omics OR genomics OR proteomics OR bioinformatics OR nanotechnology)"

Finding Blogs: Searching Blogs for Entries or Posts BlogDigger: http://www.blogdigger.com/ Daypop: http://www.daypop.com/ Feedster: http://www.feedster.com/ FaganFinder: http://www.faganfinder.com/ Globe Of Blogs: http://www.globeofblogs.com/ Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/ Technorati and Technorati: Tags:

http://www.technorati.com/ Ari Paparo Dot Com: Big List of Blog Search Engines:

http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html

Want Your Own Blog?

University of Michigan: Mblog: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu

Wiki

Hawaiian word for “quick” or “fast” Acronym for “What I Know Is” “A website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content”

(Wikipedia) A tool for:

collaborative document drafting and editing rapid document prototyping collaborative problem-solving knowledge organization consensus building document version tracking web design and content provision but mostly COLLABORATION

NOTE: A wiki is only as good as its community

Science & Research Wikis

BioWiki: http://biowiki.org/BioWikis BiWiki: Bingen Bioinformatics Wiki: http://biwiki.fh-

bingen.de/biwiki Evolving Code Wiki:

http://www.evolvingcode.net/index.php Fred Hutchinson Computational Proteomics Laboratory

(CPL) Proteomics Repository: https://proteomics.fhcrc.org/CPAS/Project/home/home.view

GUS: The Genomics Unified Schema: http://www.gusdb.org/wiki

nodalpoint [nodalpoint wiki] (bioinformatics): http://wiki.nodalpoint.org/

Science & Research Wikis

BioWiki: http://biowiki.org/BioWikis

Science & Research Wikis

Evolving Code Wiki: http://www.evolvingcode.net/index.php

Science & Research Wikis

Fred Hutchinson Computational Proteomics Laboratory (CPL) Proteomics Repository: https://proteomics.fhcrc.org/CPAS/Project/home/home.view

Science & Research Wikis

Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF): http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Main_Page

Open Wetware: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page Proteome Commons:

http://www.proteomecommons.org/archive.jsp Science of Spectroscopy:

http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Wiki

Wikiomics Bioinformatics Wiki: http://wikiomics.org Wise-Nano Project: http://wise-nano.org/w/Main_Page

Science & Research Wikis

Open Wetware: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

Science & Research Wikis

Proteome Commons: http://www.proteomecommons.org/archive.jsp

Health & Clinical Wikis

Fluwiki: http://www.fluwikie.com

Health & Clinical Wikis

The INSIGHT Project on Infectious & Chronic Disease: http://nie.wikispaces.com/The+INSIGHT+Project

Health & Clinical Wikis

Medical Matters Wiki: http://usabiomedmatters.wikidot.com/

Health & Clinical Wikis

Medical Matters Wiki: http://usabiomedmatters.wikidot.com/

Health & Clinical Wikis

Neurodegeneration Research Wiki: http://wiki.iop.kcl.ac.uk/default.aspx/Neurodegeneration/Neurodegeneration%20Research%20Wiki.html

Wikis for Academic Purposes

Useful Chemistry: http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/

Science Wikis?

Maybe it's like the difference between flicking acorns to bring down a house of cards, and planting acorns to bring down a mountain ... Zhurnal Wiki: Science: http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?

ScienceWiki

Contact:

Patricia Anderson, pfa@umich.edu