Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

The HHMI Bulletin on Science Blogging and Sciblings

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The HHMI Bulletin

, the monthly magazine of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, runs a lengthy feature on science blogging in its November issue. I am quoted in the article with fellow Sciblings Tara Smith and Alex Palazzo.

Readers of Scienceblogs are likely to find the article of strong interest along with the other features at the online version of the Bulletin. You can subscribe for free to the print edition here.

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