Over on Freethoughtblogs, Thunderf00t makes the following assertion about the subject matter addressed by that blog network: The disproportionate amount of attention [is given] to sexism compared to other issues. He does not assert this as a hypothesis, but rather, as a fact. But, Imma turn it back into a hypothesis and assail it with…

With the changeover to National Geographic Branding, we’ve reconfigured the Google Analytics account. In the old days (last month) all of Scienceblogs shared a single account, which made it interesting (we could spy on each other’s blogs) and annoying, because if you are only a subdomain on one account there are a lot of things…

Blogging controversy can generate a lot of comments, but it is often said that this also generates a lot of “hits” (page views) and sometime we bloggers are accused by people (often commenters) who don’t blog themselves and don’t have access to the secret data about blog sites that bloggers can see of generating controversy…

The distance between the top of the page and the title of any given blog post … i.e., the header, banner ads, bread crumbs, etc. etc. … should be as small as possible given the constraints of the blog. The title text in the header and the title text of a given blog post should…

I am intellectually, but not viscerally, worried about Dennis Markuze. He does not scare me in the way that scary things do, I have no limbic reaction to him, and never did. Except once, and I’ll tell you about that below. Dennis Markuze is a wanna-be terrorist* who targets scientists, atheists, skeptics, and kin. PZ…

Did you recognize the National Geographic Theme Song? The new arrangement between National Geographic and Scienceblogs is now, like the proverbial cat, out of the bag, so I feel comfortable making a few brief remarks about it. As far as I can tell, the information that is currently circulating is not entirely accurate, but not…

There are three ways in which Wikipedia is very counterproductive when it comes to having conversations. 1) Sometimes it is not correct, but is taken as gospel. This is rare, because errors that are encountered when this happens tend to get fixed, but it does happen; 2) Wikipedia, with it’s strident empirical approach and narrow…

PLoS has had a few blogs all along, PLoS.org, everyONE and Speaking of Medicine (the PLoS ONE and PLoS Medicine community blogs respectively). But now there is a new network, at blogs.plos.org, which includes a number of new blogs, including a couple of Scienceblogs.com diasporics. The new blogs are:

I wonder if being accurate is important in a discussion about the Post Pepsiblawg world, like this one on Science 2.0. If so, that post and some others I’ve seen are going to need some serious rewrite.

I pointed to this earlier, but I think it deserves its own post (hat tip ABATC)

I wonder… when did it become an apparently accepted online norm to try to silence people by insulting, intimidating and attacking them through aggressive online behavior? When did such actions against individuals too frequently become the reaction of choice instead of engaging in spirited debate and passionate dissent? And when exactly did the rest of…

Alice Pawley and SciWo (nee Science Woman), the bloggers of Sciencewomen Blog here at Scienceblogs.com, are retiring from the blogosphere . Please go visit their blog, check out the last two posts (a Farewell to Blog from each) and wish them well.

Welcome to Sharon Astyk of Casaubon’s Book, which used to be here. Sharon has moved Casaubon’s Book to Scienceblogs, here. You can find out what she’s up to HERE. … This is the third iteration of the Blog “Casaubon’s Book” which covers both our ecological predicament and my response to it. My primary topics are…

Scienceblogs.com (of Seed Media Group) has entered into a partership with National Geographic. Here is what this means:

The Wikios are out. Have a look!

Anonymity was no fun, she claimed, stating “I couldn’t even go to my own book launch party”

If you get paid to write a review for your blog, that fact … that you were paid … should be disclosed on said blog.