Blogging's First Peer Review

Last year, I became the first person to publish in a peer-reviewed academic journal under a blogging pseudonym. Earlier this year I did it again. I can now announce that I'm also (I think) the first blogger to act as a peer reviewer under my pseudonym. The manuscript was submitted to a well-known journal and 'Neuroskeptic' was asked to evaluate it. The request came to my neuroskeptic email address, and I submitted it as "Dr N Skeptic" - my real contact details etc. never being involved. Which is... nice. But I don't want to say much more about it, because of confidentiality. So I'll take the opportunity to say that in general, peer reviewing a manuscript is not very different to writing a blogpost about a paper. There's a lot of overlap in the thought-processes involved, and the skills required. However, while I love blogging, I've never enjoyed being a ...