Eighteen science bloggers join Nature Education’s Scitable blogs this week, continuing the network’s ambition to communicate science to students and science enthusiasts. The bloggers will contribute to ten new blogs and one new forum which will launch throughout the course of the week. They add to the original lineup, bringing the total number of bloggers on Scitable blogs in excess of thirty.
Scitable is a free online library of educational articles and multimedia vetted by Nature Publishing Group (NPG). It is an endeavour of Nature Education, the educational division of NPG. The blogs section has been a part of Scitable since 2010 and has since evolved into a thriving network of all ages. It is part of the NPG blogosphere along with nature.com editorial blogs, SciLogs and Scientific American blogs.
The new Scitable bloggers add to the variety of science topics covered by the network and further anchor Scitable blogs with an educational focus. Of the ten new blogs launching this week, seven are group blogs that concentrate on specific fields of science (neuroscience, psychology, geology, oceanography, physics, evolution and environment) while three are individual blogs with a more personal focus (mentoring, philosophy of physics and astrobiology, and science news).
The group blogs aim to educate and entertain by tackling the fundamentals of their fields and answering relevant questions that you may have thought of… but never got answers to. For instance, “Are humans the only animals to suffer from decompression sickness?”, “How do planets evolve?” and “Are there really as many neurons in the human brain as stars in the Milky Way?”.
The individual blogs provide perspectives on scientific research, news, and the culture of science and scientific thinking. Alongside this more personal focus, the new forum will elicit discussions via case studies highlighting ethical issues raised by our growing knowledge of genetics, in this era of personalised genome sequencing and clinical testing.
Scitable bloggers continue to diversify the science coverage on Scitable, allowing readers to connect with voices from different age groups and nationalities. Bloggers include undergraduate and postgraduate students, post-docs, teachers and lecturers, researchers, professors and science communicators, across five continents.
To keep in touch with Scitable, you can follow @Scitable on Twitter and Nature Education’s Facebook page.
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Scitable’s new blogs and their respective launch dates:
May 21:
Earthbound, geology group blog by Jon Tennant and Jane Robb
Saltwater Science, oceanography group blog by Sara Mynott, Alexis Rudd and Jessica Carilli
Why Science Matters, experimental biology blog by Luke De.
May 22:
Accumulating Glitches, evolution group blog by Sedeer el-Showk and Sarah Jane Alger
Eyes on Environment, environment group blog by Kate Whittington and Charles Ebikeme
The Success Code, mentorship blog by Bhavana Wiedmann.
May 23:
Brain Metrics, neuroscience group blog by Mark Stokes and Bradley Voytek
Mind Read, psychology group blog by Jordan Gaines and Dana Smith
Genetics Generation, ethics of genetics forum moderated by Laura Rivard.
May 24:
Pop, physics blog by James Keen
Postcards from the Universe, cosmology and astronomy blog by Bruce Braun.