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Popular science blogs

Popular science blogs

The Scientist posted an article last week asking readers to name their favourite life science blogs. They’re going to collate the results and draw up something similar to Nature’s Top 50 Science Blogs except based on the number of supportive comments rather than Technorati rank, explaining: “there’s really no guide to help inform you about what blogs you should be reading if you are interested in exploring the blogosphere” cough Postgenomic cough Chemical Blogspace cough Anyway, it’s a good idea and I like the fact that they’re encouraging discussion on the comment threads of the blogs themselves. They got the  … Read more

Updates to the UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway

The Featured Article in Signaling Update this week highlights a Nature article by William Chia, Bingwei Lu and colleagues entitled ‘Polo inhibits progenitor self-renewal and regulates Numb asymmetry by phosphorylating Pon’ (Nature 449, 96-100 (2007)). Visit the Featured Articles section of the Signaling Update for FREE access to the text and PDF of this and several other recent Nature publications.  Read more

Science in science blogs

Science in science blogs

Should science bloggers distinguish between posts that cover peer reviewed research and those that focus on more light hearted matters like quizzes, photos of other bloggers down the pub and science in the mainstream media? Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily thinks so. Last week he suggested creating an icon that bloggers could add to ‘serious’ posts that would help identify them as being academic in nature. He posed some interesting follow-up questions: how would you control usage? What is the definition of ‘serious’ in this context? The idea was well recieved and now there’s a web site at BPR3.org where  … Read more