Best Science Blog

Nominate your choice for Best Science Blog.

UPDATE: NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR ALL CATEGORIES. FINALIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED DEC. 29. VOTING BEGINS JAN. 5.

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142 Comments

I would like to nominate Real Climate - this site has been delivering amazingly detailed science-based information for many years and deserves all the recognition it can get:

http://realclimate.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/feed/

I would also like to nominate the hugely popular Pharyngula blog written by well-known biologist PZ Myers. As far as I know, this is the most popular blog in the Scienceblogs.com network:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/pharyngula

I'd like to nominate my blog The Mouse Trap, which is focused on psychology and Neuroscince.
http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMouseTrap


If the Mouse Trap can nominate themselves, so can I! :)

Evil Monkey and I write at http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia on neuroscience, physiology, and academia.

www.scienceblogs.com/intersection

www.scienceblogs.com/intersection

Western Institute for Study of the Environment

http://westinstenv.org

www.wattsupwiththat.com

Watts Up With That

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

I would like to propose :

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

I would like to nominate Watts Up With That?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
It is very informative and also very rigorous in analyzing and presenting scientific data.

Watts Up With That

http://wattsupwiththat.com/


http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Excellent and realistic appraisals and information regarding an important topic.

Climate Audit
http://www.climateaudit.org/
feed://www.climateaudit.org/?feed=rss2

Wattsupwiththat.com


http://wattsupwiththat.com/

The Reference Frame

[url]http://motls.blogspot.com[/url]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Best site on the net if you are skeptical at all of the 'climate change' phenomenon, and want the real science.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
because the truth will set you free

Best and most honest science blog by far

Refreshing and intelligent in its approach and persistent in pointing out how remarkably underdressed the emperor appears to be.

http://climateaudit.org/

BEST SCIENCE BLOG

CLIMAT AUDIT

WattsUpWithThat.com for real truth.

ClimateAudit.org for backup truth.

Unafraid to dissent from the accepted group think.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Great. The deniers are already spamming the nominations. That's just lovely.


Climate: http://www.realclimate.com
Geology: http://shearsensibility.blogspot.com/
Virology: http://scienceblogs.com/erv/

Watts Up With That

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Watts Up With That?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

SOS Forests
Western Institute for Study of the Environment
http://westinstenv.org
feed://westinstenv.org/sosf/feed/atom/

Watch as the federal government allows millions of acres of federal, state and private land to be destroyed in preventable catastrophic wildfires.

WISE Save Our Forests
http://westinstenv.org

Yes, we can.....stop turning our forests into brushfields.....stop spewing massive greenhouse gasses.....stop incinerating our forests....and use science and hands-on expertise to restore our forests using the best science available.

Otherwise, this massive on-going disaster will become known as "Obama's Katrina".

Stop the senseless incinerations of the government's Let-Burn program!!

wattsupwiththat.com

Watts Up With That

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

I would like to nominate:

http://wattsupwiththat.com

For helping to keep climate science honest.

Great blog, solid information.

Watts Up With That
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Watts Up With That is one of my favorites

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
feed://wattsupwiththat.com/feed/

I would like to nominate
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Watts Up With That? by Anthony Watts

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Always interesting and informative

The best Brownies served hot (not warm) with a side of statistics are at Lucia's "The Blackboard"
http://rankexploits.com/musings/

I am amazed that no one has nominated WattsupwithThat!!1!!!! This is clearly a conspiracy. This site is already rigged if you don't nominate Anthony Watts.

An amazing site run by an equally amazing Anthony Watts

http://westinstenv.org
SOS Forests - excellent.

In a world that seems to be more interested in political advocacy than science on many issues - particularly in respect to "climate change" - this site sticks to the real underlying issues in investigating scientific findings and only then are any attempts made to determine what that investigation actually reports.

Its premise is to see the horse actually only being put in front of the cart, when the cart is good and ready. A breathe of clear scientific air in an otherwise political arena.

The Reference Frame

http://motls.blogspot.com

No question

Dr. Lubos Motl
http://motls.blogspot.com/

Watts Up With That? by Anthony Watts
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Always interesting and informative

A simply wonderful blog.

Wide variety of commentators.

Honestly run blog attempting to keep the climate records honest.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Climate Science: by Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News

http://climatesci.org/

Climate Audit
http://www.climateaudit.org/

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News

http://climatesci.org/

Watts up with that? Anthony Watts
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Sherwood Idso
http://www.co2science.org

Sound science tactfully and engagingly presented.

http://realclimate.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/feed/

What we are going to have here is one of those Ross Perot moments, with the lone Jackalope in the running (looks like Phlembgula so far) winning the whole shebang, while the reality based community is splitting their vote.

Ah what the hell.


Lubos Motl: The Reference Frame

http://motls.blogspot.com/

Climate Audit - Steve McIntyre
http://www.climateaudit.org/

Climate Science
http://climatesci.org/

Watts up with that? Anthony Watts
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

The biggest scientific controversy of our time is the climate one and those on the cutting edge are the skeptical sites already mentioned here, Watts Up With That, climatesci.org, climateaudit.org, lucia's Blackboard at rankexploits.com, and Lubos Motl's site. On the true believer side, RealClimate has advocates as does Tamino's not so Open Mind. Andy Revkin does pretty well at DotEarth.

I nominate wherever Leif Svalgaard is commenting at the moment.
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I nominate Will Baird's excellent "The Dragon's Tales", an eclectic science blog featuring the latest in paleontology, evolution science, astronomy,and rocketry among other topics. Well done.


http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/

www.wattsupwiththat.com
www.climateaudit.org
www.climate-skeptic.com

I'd like to nominate SciGuy, of the Houston Chronicle. He does good general science coverage and his work during hurricanes Gustav and Ike was exceptional.

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/

Always honest, always open, trying to determine reality and do real science.

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I would like to nominate http://www.klamathbucketbrigade.org as one of, if not "the" most comprehensive websites on the 'Net for things related to the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon / northern California and the Klamath Project. Includes much about the various federal and state agencies at work in the Basin, plus flowcharts for the Klamath River, dam information, commercial and other fishing, and so much more. Scroll down the home page to utilize the Search function. Almost all things Klamath may be found here!

I'd like to nominate http://www.statcounter.com as one of, if not "the" most important such sites. Based in Denmark, Aodhan Cullen has built an amazing website for those seeking to delve into the coolest statistics regarding their own websites. Unless you need to know more than the last 500 visitors, the service is FREE!