Blogging in the scientific environment?

Scientific publishing as a blog – does that really exist?

In times when teenager YouTube stars influence purchasing behaviour, politics and public opinion and children wish to become professional influencers, it is often forgotten that digital communication can not only be used for entertainment purposes. Several scientific and technical topics can also be found on blogs.

Frequently, blogs are associated with private travelogues, beauty and restaurant tips. However, companies, institutions and research centres have recently discovered the blog as a means of communication, reached a large number of people there within a very short time-span and it has become possible to publish new findings at the touch of a button. Moreover, the articles can also be provided there as a discussion basis and it is possible to commence dialogues with interested parties and further scientists there. Also, amateurs are granted insights into scientific topics. Here, the reader should naturally always pay attention to the trustworthiness of the source because fake news is already in circulation in the scientific area.

Let's explore a few very interesting scientific blogs together:

1. SciLogs

SciLogs from the publishing house Spektrum der Wissenschaft combine various academic blogs and open up a large number of interesting interdisciplinary topics for the reader, such as, for example, research, product development, sustainability, technology, applications and values. Scientists, theorists, practitioners and journalists blog there. Everyone is allowed to comment the blog contributions and to contribute their own inputs. Moreover, even thematically coherent blogs are incorporated in SciLogs.

2. Adademic Blog

The Academic Blog portal creates an excellent overview if you are interested in English-language blogs. Several hundred blogs are categorised by discipline and issued in English.

3. Mission diaries

The University of Hohenheim is renowned for its mission diaries which report about the most varied research trips worldwide and publishes diary entries written by scientists regularly.

Do you have an scientific blog yourself or do further blogs occur to you? Your contributions are more than welcome. We share them with all interested parties.