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Posted on: April 6, 2010 10:50 PM, by Nick Anthis
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I wonder how much this has to do with the decrease in actual science being blogged on science blogs?
It used to be all science all the time, with a few bits and pieces of other material tossed in for seasoning and leavening. That's why I started coming here.
Now it seems to be the other way around. For just two examples, I used to read Pharyngula, can I say, religiously?! Now I read it hardly at all because PZ doesn't typically blog science any more. And I fully support his atheist stance, but I don't come here for atheism, I come here for science. I used to read Grrl Scientist regularly, but she, too, has migrated to other topics and blogs hardly any science.
Those who do routinely blog science - such as Ed Yong - seem to be moving on to Discover blogs. I'm forced to wonder what that says about "Science" Blogs.
Posted by: IanW | April 7, 2010 8:20 AM
It's true that we have recently lost some of our more heavily science-themed blogs to Discover. However, while I can't speak to how the concentration of actual science blogging has changed over time here, I can say that there is still quite a bit of science being written about on ScienceBlogs! I just took a look at the first page of the Last 24 Hours feed, and from a quick examination, here are my findings:
Out of 23 posts, 5 were purely scientific (and 3 of those were about "hard" science). However, an addition 10 were about science-related topics, and only 8 were not about science at all. I'd say that's still a pretty high concentration of science!
Posted by: Nick Anthis | April 7, 2010 10:43 AM