What do science bloggers blog about

Gene Expression
By Razib Khan
Aug 30, 2010 9:51 AMNov 20, 2019 5:12 AM

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What do science bloggers blog about? My study of the Wikio Top 100:

As a former scientist, I like evidence-based blogging so I needed a dataset to test my theory that ‘all top bloggers are biologists’. To get a randomish sample of big science bloggers, I did a dodgy analysis of the blogs in the Wikio Top 100 science bloggers ranking.

Here's the breakdown of bio bloggers topicality:

The large number of neuroscience bloggers has always perplexed me. Any idea what's going on there? A minor note: could someone at Wikio update my blog's address? I tried to do it let myself but it wouldn't let me. Would be nice to get that before I drop off the list of top 20 science blogs.

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