Today, three science bloggers joined the ever-growing SciLogs.com science blogging network. Marc Kuchner, Alex Brown and Malcolm Campbell start blogging on their new SciLogs.com blogs this week, adding to the more than 35 science bloggers currently on the network.
SciLogs.com is a relatively new network, launched a little over six months ago, and is part of the larger SciLogs initiative. That initiative is a collection of science blogging networks in different languages, including English, German, Dutch, Spanish with more in the pipeline. SciLogs.com, the English branch of the SciLogs initiative is spearheaded by German publisher Spektrum der Wissenschaft in collaboration with nature.com and is one of Nature Publishing Group’s four science blogging networks.
SciLogs.com launched on the premise that bloggers elicit discussions around which communities form. Creating communities would not only expand and add value to discussions, by allowing various people to add their opinions and expertise, but also help propagate science to more people. Four months ago, SciLogs.com added in excess of 15 new bloggers to its ranks to add even more voices and to elicit even more discussions, expanding the topics covered on the network. Today’s addition of three more science bloggers is in the same spirit.
Marc Kuchner (@marckuchner), an astrophysicist who works at NASA and a songwriter, will blog about about marketing strategies from the business world that scientists can adopt to help them win jobs and grants, improve the culture of science and shape the public debate. Marc’s blog, aptly called Marketing for Scientists, is an extension of his book of the same title.
Enthusiastic blogger Alex Brown (@alex_brovvn) also joins SciLogs.com with new blog Do you speak science?. Alex will focus on science communication and the use of languages in the scientific world. With witty, humorous and thought-provoking blog posts, Alex will investigate how the very words you know may affect the way you perceive the world.
Malcolm Campbell (@m_m_campbell), a professor and vice-principal of Research at the University of Toronto Scarborough, joins SciLogs.com where he will continue his tremendous curation of the best science content online. (Check out the #SixIncredibleThingsBeforeBreakfast hashtag on Twitter where everyday Malcolm highlights some of the “wow-est” science he’s read the day before.) Malcolm is co-blogger on The Aggregator blog and will post weekly linkfests starting later this week.
So, do update your bookmarks and RSS feeds! And come join the science-driven discussions on SciLogs.com. You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter at @scilogscom.
Khalil A. Cassimally
Community Manager of SciLogs.com