《自然》力推全球五大科学博客博客已成为科学重要工具

生物谷

生物谷早在2005年就关注全球博客的发展，在国内首次报道了：Nature也博客！作为新兴的媒体，科学家写的博客相对较少，但其中有一些却很受欢迎。据英国《自然》杂志报道，Technorati博客搜索引擎根据之前六个月的链接站点个数对其索引的4670万博客地址进行了排名，其中有5位科学家的博客进入了前3500名。Declan Butler对这些科学博客成功的原因进行了调查。与科学家相比，年轻的科学工作者，对博客极富热情，生物谷博客 http://blog.bioon.com 建立短短一年多时间，吸引了15000多名科学工作者入驻博客，每天都有大量最新的信息公开。博客已成为科学工作者的喜爱的助手之一。

作为博客的重要分支，播客（以语音为主的博客形式），也成为科学爱好者的重要工具。许多科学工作者喜欢将自己的观点，见解，以多媒体形式公开出来，跟更多的用户共同分享。此次，Nature上评选了全球五大科学家博客（也有称为赛客），排名如下：

小知识：博客从入门到精通2.0

        第一名  http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula,（排名179位）

        明尼苏达大学的生物学家Paul  Myers将其博客的高排名归因于“与自由政治和无神论的广泛领域接轨”以及“对美国文化中反动宗教本质的愤恨”的充分展现。Myers表示，科学家可以轻松地将他们的专家意见转化成博客，他说：“有时我只是像在上课时做的那样概述一些基本的观点，如果像给同行评审的期刊投稿那样写则肯定会失败，因为这在网上并不奏效。一个博客更像是开完学术会议后在酒吧的会话交谈。”

        第二名  http://www.pandasthumb.org,（排名1647位）

        作为该博客创办人之一的堪萨斯公民科学协会主席Jack  Krebs表示：“我们有一些对‘智能设计’和上帝论者运动最博学的观察家和批评家。话题本身的特点也是有影响的，大家对有关进化论和神创论话题有思想性的分析是感兴趣的，甚至是渴望的。”

        第三名  http://www.realclimate.org,（排名1884位）

        气候学家Stefan  Rahmstorf认为，他的博客之所以成功是由于热门的话题和行家的贡献。他指出：“这些有助于培养尽可能将问题解释清楚的热情，当然，也需要有足够的耐心来处理蜂拥而来的评论的痛苦。”纽约戈达德空间中心的Gavin  Schmidt表示：“这一博客满足了人们对于不完全成熟但可接近的信息的渴望。在这方面，它比报纸上的文章更加深入，但却比科学著作更加容易理解。当然，杂志也填补了一些空缺，但它们不能像博客一样有效地起作用或者相互影响。”

        第四名  http://cosmicvariance.com,（排名2174位）

        这个有关宇宙变迁的博客的作者是五位物理学家，其中之一的Sean  Carroll表示：“频繁地加入新颖独创的内容对培养受众是至关重要的，但是采取鼓励争论的姿态促使人们思考也会有所帮助。博客需要成为人们努力寻找话题的场所。”  Carroll指出，为了引起注意而引用他人的博客无疑是个好方法，但引用计数和排名会是很分心的事情，“人们担心访问量而不是建立一个好的博客，是件不光彩的事情”。

        第五名  http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist,（排名3429位）

        Nick  Anthis今年1月才刚刚开始写博客，他清楚为什么他的博客会名声飞涨。Anthis在今年2月美国国家航空航天局关于行政审查制度的一场争论时，第一个揭发出一位关键的官员就毕业于得克萨斯农工大学说了谎。Anthis表示：“这件事情在我知道之前已经迅速成为全国性的新闻故事，而后他辞职了。”许多人在最初访问Anthis的博客之后就成为了经常性的读者。

Nature播客的内容欣赏

06 July 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Face recognition, koala retroviruses, a sneaky sociologist, top science blogs, big cat business, new nukes, the search for Earth-like planets, and silent earthquakes.
28 June 2006 Stem cell special: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
A one-off hour long edition of the Nature podcast featuring debate, insight and interviews on the latest stem cell research.
29 June 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Self-repairing brains, black holes, science on the summer solstice, ecosystem stability, choosing the right cleaner fish, the new germanium, and the problem with prions. diseases.
22 June 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
The origins of the thymus, genetic causes of deafness, the piezo electric effect, and the precarious San Andreas fault.
15 June 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Climate and contrails, repulsive atoms, trials of Nature, science and soccer, making species, gamblers' choices, and a new kind of glass.
08 June 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Earthquake aftershocks, planetary origins, controversy at CSIRO, Steller seal lions, signs of ancient life, and dwarf dinosaurs.
01 June 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
The balmy Arctic, levee lessons, Hobbit origins, dangerous chemistry, Saturn's hot moon, secrets of REM sleep, and lab animal endings.
25 May 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Undersea volcanoes, the outer structure of HIV, scientific misconduct in China, fusion reactor redesign, fossil recongnition, non-mendelian inheritance, and lobsters with the lurgy.
18 May 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
A new antibiotic, human chromosomes completed, cheating bacteria, Neanderthal DNA, cash and climate change models, top-ranking physics, humans and chimps get close, cytoskeleton's role in repair, and a trio of exoplanets.
11 May 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Eusocial slackers, seawater's secret, meteoric survival, Arctic data loss, US prepares for bird flu, Qatari science, the RNA pseudoknot, and the spin about Saturn.
04 May 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
RNAi and cancer, migratory birds lost, debates over hurricanes and lethal injections, the state of UK chemistry, Pacific winds of change, and the molecular microchip sandwich.
27 April 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Reacting to heart disease, Uranus on a tilt, making bird flu vaccines, constant constants, starlings on song, treerings in Pakistan, and the origins of gills and jaws.
20 April 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Personalised medicine, snake evolution, the legacy of Chernobyl 20 years on, Antarctic lakes connected.
13 April 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Yeast make antimalarials, bright future for new bulbs, bird flu in the UK, 'superagonist', spinal chord treatment controversy, a new optical microscope, and the origin of australopithecus.
06 April 2006: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
Tiktaalik - the missing link, moondust and the solarwind, the island of Tuvalu, lost artifacts found, naked molerats, annamox bacteria, and parasites and their hosts' predators.
30 March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
The moonlets of Saturn's ring system, the Sim Universe, stem cells from sperm, Italian scientists' angst, who made Dolly and other issues of authorship, grey matter and IQ, and fighting cholesterol with RNAi.
23 March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Adventures on half the Amazon, ancient bacteria, Africa's hydrodams, medical trial bioethics, the Big Bang, pin-pointing protective proteins, ion channels, and 2020 vision: the future of computing.
16 March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
The firefly light, the ultrasonic frog chorus, super-solid helium at the American Physics Society meeting, colour-coded bacteria, and the art and architecture of DNA.
09 March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Poisonous frogs, Trypanosome tails, 'stepping' cells, the oldest star in the universe, Snuppy is a real clone, fusion controversy bubbles over, and US evangelists take on global warming politics.
02 March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Asian earthquake and tsunami, early maize and agriculture, foot and mouth vaccination strategies, and animal rights versus scientific freedom.
23 February 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Malaria's cloaking device, Japan's lost eels and Royal genes, new moons for Pluto, deep sea wonders and womens' place in science.
16 February 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Cane toads in Australia, 3D mapping and Google earth, New species found, avian flu in Africa, CO2 and water levels, ionic liquids, brain responses to positive and negative stimuli.
09 February 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
T-Rex's relatives, the rise of Tibet, Krakatoa's sea legacy, Jack the Dripper, planetary conundrums, mouldy metals and a tale of two fish.
02 February 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
'Flyght' simulators, modelling malaria, catching cancer, Alma in the Andes, the Digital Universe, and Pluto's big brother.
26 January 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
The primate police, bird flu mutates, flying snails, barcoding the island of Moorea, and money and human movements.
19 January 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Sea floors and asteroids, the nature of revenge, whiskey in the jar, let's ear it for evolution, Stardust, cosmic clouds, and no hope for 'scopes.
12 January 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Cosmic collisions, frogs feel the heat, why plants aren't so green, and ant school: the first example of animal teaching.
05 January 2006: Audio (mp3 file)
Internet mashups, Nature's Avian flu mashup, the size of the moon, the drive of the bee hive, and the origins of breasts.
22 December 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Christmas special: Why dancing and sex go hand-in-hand, how reindeer beat winter blues, pursuing the star of Bethlehem, wines that rock, and saving the spirit of tequila.
15 December 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Britannica vs. Wikipedia, origin of feathers, the earliest Europeans, life in the Louisiana wetlands, a resurgent Russian space programme and problems with Pokemon.
08 December 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Going to the dogs, single photons, quantum entanglements and nonsense mutations.
01 December 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Touch down on Titan, the giant water scorpion, Ebola virus hunters, stem-cell controversies, and chilling news on the Gulf Stream.
24 November 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Pharaoh ant highway codes, high temperature super conductors, body-snatching tunicates, the E. coli camera, mosquito bites, and touching base with the latest product from Google.
17 November 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
fresh water and climate change, komodo dragons, typhoid Mary disease carriers, chaos and cryptography, and the latest from the intelligent design trials in the USA.
10 November 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
a new biodiesel fuel, avoiding cosmic collisions, how insects measure day length, and the latest news from Nature
02 November 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
malaria, photonics, volcanoes, algal nutrition, and flying through the eye of Hurricane Rita
26 October 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
HapMap and human genetics, Saturn's rings, sharks, and the missives of Darwin and Einstein
19 October 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
stem cells, semiconductors, the chimp genome and swimming rats
12 October 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
satellites, comets, Hobbits and ancient noodles
5 October 2005: Audio (mp3 file)
Spanish and avian flu pandemics, earthquakes, gamma ray bursts and bees behaving badly