We realised the other day that our list of links on the left-hand side is pretty out of date and hasn’t been updated in ages. So we put our heads together and scoured our RSS feeds in Google Reader (without which I doubt we’d be able to run about 30% of the content in the journal!) to come up with the following list of blogs to add:
All That Matters (by our Nature Materials colleague Joerg Heber)
Homunculus (from the science writer Phil Ball)
Metamodern (‘nano-guru’ Eric Drexler)
Notes from the Giant’s Shoulders
Solarsaddle (from UCL chemist Andrea Sella who writes the ‘Classic Kit’ column for Chemistry World)
Computational Organic Chemistry (Trinity University’s Steven M Bachrach, author of a book of the same name)
Phew! My CTRL+C and CTRL+V fingers are burning. Let us know in the comments if there are any we’ve missed.
DISCLAIMER: Most, but not all, are chemistry blogs. Some are more general science/nano/new PI-flavoured, but none are downright off-topic. Most, but not all, are regularly updated, but all have at least been updated this year (that was the cut-off).
Neil
Neil Withers (Associate Editor, Nature Chemistry)
Thanks guys for including me in your blogroll! I indeed also blog a bit about general science/nano/cond mat stuff but this will encourage me to include more of the chemistry fun!!
A few more suggestions:
https://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/
https://chemical-quantum-images.blogspot.com/
https://molecularmodelingbasics.blogspot.com (my own blog)
Thanks for the link! I didn’t realize anyone actually read my blog. I can vouch for many of the other links as awesome as you might expect for a Nature Chemistry recommendation!
@Jan Thanks for your suggestions. We’ve certainly seen Henry Rzepa’s blog before, but must have missed it when compiling the list. He’s one of the small number of senior academics/PIs who blog – if anyone out there has any more, please let us know!
@Joerg and @Joel (and everyone else listed above I guess): Now you just have write that perfect informative and witty post so you can get included in the monthly Blogroll column in the issue itself!
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@Stephen Thanks for that suggestion – helping the balance on this of the Atlantic.
From our Twitter feed, @AkshatRathi suggests his own blog The Allotrope “which does chemistry and ‘science and society’ types of blogposts.” He also suggests Chemical Calisthenics, a Nature Networks blog by Ayusman Sen. Sen is a professor at Penn State, and I heard him give a great talk at a conference this year so I look forward to checking out his posts! Check out this Scientific American article about his catalytically driven nanomotors.
You should add us, Edisonmuckers.org to your blogroll! We are a fledging science blog, new to the world, but with a strong foundation behind us … namely Thomas Edison! We mostly write about innovations in the scientific world, and provide free experimentation reports for homeschoolers and teachers. Give us a peek if you have a chance!
Have a lovely Monday!
Could you also add It’s the Rheo Thing for the polymer chemists out there? Thanks
Wow. You included me? I’m humbled.
I should write about chemistry more often.
@EdisonMuckers, @John
Thanks for your suggestions!
@UnlikelyGrad
No problem – although I hope it inspires you to write some great posts rather than humbling you too much
@anyone else who might still be reading
I think it’s time to call it a day with the suggestions and pass the updated blogroll onto our crack team of web people.
Blogroll – the column
Instead of blogging about our plans to update the list of links this page carries (updated today you’ll be pleased to know), I’m talking about Blogroll, the column that goes in the monthly issue of Nature Chemistry. This short, 300-word,…