Some examples of researchers’ blogs

06 January 2011

By Tristram Hooley

One of the most important things about using social media in your research is that you need to identify a network of other people in your area who are also using social media. Social media is only as powerful as the network that you build around you.

In order to give you a head start I thought that I’d identify a handful of academic blogs in different disciplinary areas. Use these blogs to help you to identify other researchers and to start conversations which in turn lead you to more useful contacts.  

Arts and humanities

The Digital Humanities Blog (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog/)

Faith and Theology (http://www.blogtopsites.com/out/694)

The Wild Surmise (http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/natureandcyberspace/) 

Ed Finn (http://www.edfinn.net/)

Daisy Pignetti (http://www.daisypignetti.com/)

Biological sciences

Agricultural biodiversity blog (http://www.researchblogging.org/blog/home/id/43)

Gene expression (http://www.researchblogging.org/blog/home/id/1590)

Poseidon sciences (http://poseidonsciences.scienceblog.com/)

Environmental biology blog (http://j-cert23.blogspot.com/)

Biochemistry (http://biochemistry.coravil.com/)

Biomedical science

BHD Research (http://bhdresearch.scienceblog.com/)

Theresa’s Biotech/Biomedical blog (http://biotech.about.com/b/)

Bioethics discussion blog (http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/)

Amy Shah’s Biomedical engineering blog (http://www.amyshah.com/)

Dharmendra S Modha's Cognitive Computing Blog (http://p9.hostingprod.com/@modha.org/)

Physical sciences and engineering

The Froarty blog (http://froarty.scienceblog.com/)

Optics and Photonics News (http://www.osa-opn.org/Blog/)

Life as a physicist (http://gordonwatts.wordpress.com/)

Looking at nothing (http://www.lookingatnothing.com/)

Journey into randomness (http://linbaba.wordpress.com/)

Social sciences

The blog of diminishing returns (http://sethgitter.blogspot.com/)

A very public sociologist (http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/)

Public criminology (http://thesocietypages.org/pubcrim/)

Thinking difference (http://thinkingdifference.blogspot.com/)

Clay Shirky’s writings about the internet (http://www.shirky.com/)