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Science Blogger Blogcast Showdown

We initially planned on doing these group blogcasts roughly once per month, but then, well, Pepsigate happened and blogs were moved, people were distracted, and so on.

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We initially planned on doing these group blogcasts roughly once per month, but then, well, Pepsigate happened and blogs were moved, people were distracted, and so on. But the dust is finally starting to settle, so it was time for another. I should point out how awesome it is that this group blogcast spans three blog networks - Scienceblogs, Scientopia, and PLoS blogs - and is an example of the kind of collaboration the bloggers on the different networks can achieve!

We had initially decided to talk about field work, but there are, as expected, plenty of tangents: the work that we are currently doing in our labs, (surprise!) our thoughts on recent developments in the science blogosphere, and other shenanigans. We also instituted a two-drink minimum for this recording session, which possibly explains the somewhat random course of our conversation; my beverages were courtesy of Genomic Repairman.


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If you'd like to download the MP3 directly, you can grab it here.

And here are links to all the other bloggers' blogs and twitters:

Obesity Panacea (www.blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea) - Peter and Travis

Observations of a Nerd (www.scienceblogs.com/observations) - Christie

Neurotic Physiology (www.scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/) - Scicurious

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.

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