Homework for this week – share a blog that is meaningful to you.
For example:
Great blogs on early career research, work-life balance, women in science, etc.: https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com, SASconfidential, a math-focused one, Hope Jahren.
Blogs covering a range of interesting topics, from scicomm to career issues to teaching challenges and resources: violent metaphors, smallpondscience, Colin Purrington (check out his “geeky tips” – really useful), Molecular Ecologist (nice “how-to” section – largely focused on techniques in R), pharyngula
Scienceblogs: just what it sounds like, a compilation of science blogs (choose your favorite category)
scicomm 
http://www.env-econ.net/
Might be lame to most of you, but this blog is very interesting to me. Talks about recent findings in environmental economics, methods, and even jobs!! I am pleased!
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Fun blog on a research crew and their work on microbial mats in Antarctica. Very cool to get a glimpse into that world. http://cyanobacterialadventures.blogspot.com/?view=classic
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Before starting the discussion on scientific blogs I had never even thought about this medium as a method for communicating profound and innovative advances in the various fields of science (for my needs remote sensing and geospatial analysis). Through my search I have found 2 blogs focusing on remote sensing that I will continue to explore as a new and exciting tool for keeping current in my scientific field.
1. http://veryspatial.com/
This blog includes weekly podcast (now on episode 539!) that analyzes geospatial concepts currently being developed and also how geospatial analysis is interjected in current events.
2. http://spatiallyadjusted.com/
This is a personal blog run buy a GIS IT Professional who continually debugs and assess the use of ArcGIS both individually and in conjunction with other common software packages.
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I am a foodie, and like any blog involving food….sink to source..you could say. I might add that it needs to have a sustainable twist to it or I am not interested.
http://www.foodsolutionsne.org/blog close to home, from Sustainability Institute peeps
http://civileats.com/2015/02/13/a-better-tomato-a-better-tomorrow/ Food Justice, fantastic!
http://www.sustainabletable.org/879/take-action Ideas of how to be part of the solution
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I recently found this blog, The Tree of Life, and it covers a surprising variety of topics in biological sciences. I mostly check it for microbiology or taxonomy-related updates they have, but they also often have posts about life in research and sciences (like concerns about conferences, paper-writing, diversity in science, etc), which I also really enjoy reading about (http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/).
Also, it’s slightly less of a blog and more of a science website, but The Artful Amoeba is also pretty cool with current updates in science (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/).
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Post from Meg Ange:
I found a blog (http://steminist.com/) that I really liked! It’s written by women in STEM fields: advice as to how to get there, what to when faced with gender bias, and resources for further contact if you’d like advice in the field. I enjoyed reading several of the archived blogs. They seemed incredibly helpful for women very early on in their STEM careers.
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I follow this blog on open source geospatial innovations in QGIS:
http://nathanw.net/
Awareness of new geospatial technologies, applications, and processing techniques is half the battle in a field that is rapidly expanding. Blogs and twitter are an essential way to become aware of these advances.
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