The NN blog roster is expanding by leaps and bounds. The last couple of weeks have brought us another four new bloggers, this batch as varied and exciting as the last.
I figured it’s time for another round of links. Please go over to the new NN bloggers (NNNBloggers, perhaps? Too far? Yea) and say hello.

Christie Wilcox will soon begin her graduate work in Oceanography. A self-proclaimed Oompa Loompa of Science (hence the name of her blog, O.L.S. Buzz), Christie has hit the ground running with posts about sound pollution in the oceans and its effect on whales, and sharks that don’t need males for reproduction. I am not sure what being an Oompa Loompa of Science means, but if reading Christie’s blog brings me closer to O.L.S. status, I won’t object.

Steffi Suhr is a long time NN contributor who has finally decided to take the blog plunge. Steffi is a journal editor (Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics) in Germany with a background in marine sciences. Her approach to blogging will be a very humanistic and organic one – she plans on presenting issues in science by telling the stories of the people involved. Her first post, Cam and Kinari Webb, describes the efforts of two people in Borneo to simultaneously promote rain forest preservation and health care.

Zhiming Wang is an open access devotee and Editor-in-Chief of the OA journal Nanoscale Research Letters. He also runs a nanotechnology lab at the University of Arkansas. Somehow, he has found the time to start a much-welcomed blog on NN, Open Access, Freedom Space in which he will discuss his views on the OA model of scientific publishing as well as his work with quantum dots, nanostructures, and the like.

Lei Xu makes my inner geek very happy – he will blog about his work in single molecule detection and fluorescent techniques. The first post on his blog, Dance with Single Molecules introduces the many techniques he plans on exploring in the course of his PhD work.

Erika Cule is starting a PhD in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology at Imperial College in London. She will be blogging her way through her PhD on her blog, aptly titled Blogging the PhD. Her first post addresses the differences between the ways in which biologists and mathematicians present data. I find myself, yet again, firmly in the bio camp. The top figure made no sense to me whatsoever. Really, none.

Craig Rowell has been around NN for a while but only recently started a blog, NoR. Craig currently works in the biotech industry, which allows him to compare and contrasts scientists in industry and academia.

Go over and say hello when you have the chance, extend that NN hospitality we are becoming famous for! If you feel that you are new and I failed to include you in this list, please yell at me and I will correct my error.

P.S. Now aren’t you glad I didn’t call it the Bloggy Block again?