Recent replies to "Which science blogs do you read?"

Reply from David Whitlock

David Whitlock — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:28:24 -0000

There are a few blogs that haven’t been mentioned yet that I like

Neurologica (by Stephen Novella a Yale neurologist mostly on skepticism and quackery.)
Science Based Medicine (by Novella et al, trying to go a step beyond evidence based medicine to science based medicine.)
Neurodiversity (by Kathleen Seidel, relating to autism, and autism quackery, and how the scientific literature is being manipulated to extort money from vaccine manufacturers (i.e. by Wakefield, Geier, and other autism quacks). She was recently subpoenaed in a vaccine case where her only connection was that she had blogged about how the lawyer pursuing the case has made a business out of vaccine litigation (and is a business partner with one of the only “scientists” finding a connection between autism and mercury).
The Autism Hub (a blog roll by parents, treatment providers and adults of/with autism. Mostly non-technical but a great resource for parents, spouses, friends, treatment providers and adults of/with/on the autism spectrum. Since there are no known medical treatments for ASDs, non-medical interventions would seem to be most appropriate.)
Stranger than you can imagine (my blog, mostly about NO physiology and how basal NO levels affect every physiological pathway that uses NO as a signaling molecule (that happens to be a lot of physiology). It is not for the faint hearted as I also attempt to take on modern myths of physiology, such as homeostasis with a writing style that (no doubt) will bring tears to the eyes of editors.)

Reply from Maxine Clarke

Maxine Clarke — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:06:28 -0000

Here’s one, Biotecher, on Twitter.

Reply from Marc West

Marc West — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:53:02 -0000

I read many of those already listed, but here are some others I read and/or contribute to:

Plus: News from the world of maths – a mathematics based blog for all ages as part of Plus Magazine

Mr Science Show – my own blog which started a few years back, although Plus gets most of my attention these days (seeing it’s my job…)

First Science – a nice bunch of opinions on a range of science topics

Reply from Rich Mandes

Rich Mandes — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:54:55 -0000

Nice thanks.

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Reply from Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:15:54 -0000

I write Not Exactly Rocket Science, a year-old blog where I try to make new science stories interesting and engaging to people who don’t necessarily have a scientific background.

I also like Zooillogix for a light-hearted zoological read.

Reply from Nick Anthis

Nick Anthis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:14:17 -0000

My blog is on ScienceBlogs (The Scientific Activist), so I’m partial to those, but some of my other favorites are Migrations, NASA Watch, The Panda’s Thumb, and Bad Astronomy.

Reply from Maxine Clarke

Maxine Clarke — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:40:55 -0000

Just wanted to mention that several commenters have nominated Science Blogs (on Seed)—but Matt’s original post asked for additional blogs to those. I am probably not alone in following quite a few of the seed blogs (eg Bad math good math and the relatively new addition Denialism blog, plus Cognitive Daily and several others), but did not mention them because I read the question;-)

Reply from Helen Jaques

Helen Jaques — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:46:49 -0000

Easy question – it has to be Bad Science
I spend a lot of time trying to write synopses of research papers, which leads to much ranting over unintelligible writing and suspicious reporting of results. Ben Goldacre is my hero.

The Scientific Activist is another of my favorites.

Reply from Bertalan Meskó

Bertalan Meskó — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:57:19 -0000

Ok then, here are my favourite blogs:

Clinical Cases and Images (http://casesblog.blogspot.com)
Medgadget (http://www.medgadget.com/)
Neurophilosophy (http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/)
The genes Sherpa (http://thegenesherpa.blogspot.com/)
Web 2.0 and Medicine (http://web2097.blogspot.com/)

And of course, Scienceroll (http://scienceroll.com)... :)

Reply from David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:36:48 -0000

Surely, somebody must be reading my Sciencebase Science Blog, according to my Feedburner button it’s got about 2500 subscribers…

Reply from Andrew Walkingshaw

Andrew Walkingshaw — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:11:49 -0000

I’m morally obliged to mention my boss’s blog, I think! Peter Murray-Rust anyway – but otherwise, loads of the chemical informatics blogs are great, and they’re aggregated at Planet Blue Obelisk (just ignore mine in there!)

Outside of science, Design Observer is just about my favourite thing on the Internet right now.

Reply from Shalini Sehkar

Shalini Sehkar — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:37:13 -0000

Larry Moran’s Sandwalk is also a great read.

http://sandwalk.blogspot.com

Reply from Cesar Sanchez

Cesar Sanchez — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:09:19 -0000

In addition to some already mentioned, I like:

- Small Things Considered: the microbe blog.

- MicrobiologyBytes: news on… yes, microbiology.

- The Evilutionary Biologist comments news on evolution, biology. Once a week reviews a classic paper.

- El Paleofreak [in Spanish], on evolution and paleontolgy, lively forum, beautiful illustrations.

- Everything is Pointless, on science, religion, and “the meaning of life”. Not always my kind, but sometimes funny and clever.

Reply from Todd Johnson

Todd Johnson — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:01:00 -0000

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science by Andrew Gelman’s group is great.

Freedom to Tinker by Ed Felten at Princeton is indispensable.

Reply from Philip Plait

Philip Plait — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:54:17 -0000

I read quite a few:

1) Mine: Bad Astronomy
2) PZ Myer’s Pharyngula
3) Chris Mooney’s The Intersection
4) Cosmic Variance
5) Bad Science
6) too many astronomy blogs to mention :-)
7) A lot of skeptic blogs too. Skepchick is a lot of fun.

Reply from Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo Vidal — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:19:40 -0000

Haha! I’m sorry I was listing a few and must of missed yours. Seriously, Eye on DNA is one of my main stops, as well :)
I could have listed another 20 blogs I read daily, but let’s keep things civilized, right? :)

Reply from Hsien-Hsien Lei

Hsien-Hsien Lei — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:23:03 -0000

Rick, I’m going to kick your butt later for not mentioning Eye on DNA. ;) But glad you linked to The DNA Network!

Reply from Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo Vidal — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:59:17 -0000

I have a HUGE list of science feeds I read daily, but I’d have to say that some of my main stops are:
Pedro Beltrão’s
business|bytes|genes|molecules
Sandwalk
Genomicron
Inkling Mag
Pimm

And some of the others that have already been mentioned here.

PS: There are a bunch more that I follow in The DNA Network

Reply from Mitch Andre Garcia

Mitch Andre Garcia — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:37:12 -0000

I enjoy the “Chemical Forums Blog:http//blog.chemicalforum.com”, not that I’m bias or anything. :)

Mitch

Reply from Scott Keir

Scott Keir — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:43:08 -0000

Not strictly a blog, and a little lighter than many others, but I love xkcd a webcomic with a heavy dose of science, mathematics (this being the finest, perhaps), computing and geekery.