One of the nicer things about trying to keep up a list of blogging academics, is that I’ve come across a whole bunch of blogging scientists. I’m a science junky, and love to read practitioners talk about how it’s done. Perhaps this is just discipline envy - we “political scientists” are often rather touchy about whether we’re actually scientists or not - but it probably has a lot more to do with my having read way too much science fiction over the last twenty years. Whatever. Anyway, to point you to a few particularly good science posts that I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks.
Chad Orzel, here and here on the discovery of a new type of subatomic particle. While you’re at it, check out his index of physics posts.
Amity Wilczek on how dung beetles navigate. This is a great blog on all manner of strange behavior in the animal kingdom.
Cosma Shalizi on dumb research on mating behavior.
John G. Cramer who has an incredible list of essays on cosmology, the physics of warpdrives &c &c (OK: he’s not a blogger, but his daughter is).
And (not a scientist, but debunking bad science nonetheless), Belle Waring on ad hominid arguments.
Heh. You’re still under my mental control with that last one, Henry. Ad Hominid, here.
My head hurts now and I’m behind on both work and chores, but thank you.
Hmmm…….Cramers site looks alluring, but as for the rest? You can keep your dung beetles, thanx
Thanks for the link, and for reminding me to update the physics posts index…
Just wanted to alert you to another scholar blog: The Bloviator, authored by yours truly, and focusing on health policy, health law and public health.
Thanks for the link and compliment! I’m so glad you enjoyed the dung beetle story. Thanks also for alerting me to these other blogs. Half-baked, pseudoscientific speculations about the evolution of human behavior get a lot of press coverage, so it’s really nice to see people writing critical assessments.
It’s increasingly odd for me to see Chad’s name popping up at random locations, as he’s someone I know mildly personally…
Thanks for the plug —- and for the pointers to the other blogs.
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