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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