Science has been molded along the years by man's intrinsic curiosity and need to understand what is happening around him. It has germinated from our necessity to comprehend how things work and to ...

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So, if it doesn't matter what we are, why am I going on about whether Nature considers us a blog? In short, because they're about as high profile as you get in the science world, and being featured by ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. According to “techy historians,” there were around twenty-three blogs in 1998. As of mid-February, there were 156 million ...

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Love them or loathe them, there's no denying that life sciences blogs are having an influence on the way researchers communicate about issues that matter to them. With the number of blogs steadily ...

2. What will you never write about? DANGER! Danger Will Robinson! Probability of looking like an idiot in the future: high! Avert! Avert! Ahem. You’ll notice that this blog is about new research. I ...

Blogs, as Carl Zimmer astutely noted at this year’s ScienceOnline conference, are software. Despite all the hand-wringing over whether science bloggers can or should replace science journalists the ...

The third session I participated in was Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond moderated by Brian Switek, of Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking, and Andrea Novicki, at Duke’s Center for Instructional ...

About a year ago, in this very blog, I wrote a response to a journal editor's complaint about science bloggers. My post was both a defense of science blogging and a critique of long-standing ...

This thread is inspired in part by a recent article in The Scientist - Vote for your favourite life science blogs. Obviously I'm biased and think NI is pretty freaking good, but then I would say that, ...