SciBlogs

The Sciblogs website has now gone live! What is Sciblogs? Sciblogs is an exciting initiative by the Science Media Centre an “…inde­pen­dent source of expert com­ment and infor­ma­tion for jour­nal­ists cov­er­ing sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy in New Zealand.”, the Science Media Centre was set up by the Royal Soci­ety of New Zealand and is now venturing into the Blogging arena.

Essentially the site is a collection of science blogs from around New Zealand making it easy to find the work of scientists and science writers. Even before it began it was the largest such site in New Zealand and it will get bigger. I find the opening of this site especially exciting as I am one of the freshly minted Scibloggers myself. So head on over there and check out the best of science writing that New Zealand has to offer, and me.

If you want to always be up to date with new Sci­blogs posts you can sub­scrib­e via RSS or email or by fol­low­ing our Twit­ter feed.

As I said Sciblogs plans to grow over time, that means new bloggers. If you think this would be an opportunity that you’re interested in contact Sciblogs here.

Skeptics Circle 95

This month I have had the honour to be included in the contributors to the The 95th Skeptics’ Circle. Hosted by Dr. Bob Carroll over at Skepdic.com. Dr. Carroll has done and excellent job tying the disparate blog posts in to a unifying theme and it is so entertaining that it I urge you to go read it just for it’s own sake, but I also hope you’ll click a few links while you’re there. Along with posts from familiar bloggers such as PodBlack and The SkepBitch and blogging superstars The Bad Astronomer and Orac there are a large number of other very talented writers, in whose company I feel privileged. So get over there.

Skeptics of Carlos

A few days ago I had the honour of having one of my entries be featured in the Skeptics of Carlos blog circle which was hosted this month over at Podblack.com. If you don’t know what a Blog circle is (I didn’t), basically it pulls together posts from multiple sources that have a common theme and pool them on a single site. In this case the uniting theme is Skepticism. I have to give special mention to one of the contributors, Homologous Legs. This guy is 16 years old and at twice his age I wish I was as eloquent and engaging and thorough a writer as he. Check out the blog circle, all entries are highly recommended.