The following post was published on Research Media's blog this morning. Research Media is a communications agency that provides integrated creative services for the research sector.What’s up with science blogs? I mean, why do people read them, anyway?You might be surprised to know that a question as simple as this hasn’t been tackled by the science...

Exciting news! In the next 6 days, any scientific research paper you send me, I'll blog about! It could be research you've done that you want a wider audience to read about, or a research paper you need to read for work or school but that you're having a tough time translating. All I need from you in return is a $25.00 pledge to see my own science communication...

Jillian Scudder, @Jillian_Scudder on Twitter, is the author of the science blog Astroquizzical. Jillian is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK. She is very interested in science communication and outreach, and created her own blog in order to answer questions about space. Her blog is awesome, by the...

Elizabeth Preston, @Inkfish on Twitter, writes for Discover Magazine via her blog Inkfish. From the blog's sidebar: "Like the wily and many-armed cephalopod, Inkfish reaches into the far corners of science news and brings you back surprises (and the occasional sea creature). The ink is virtual but the research is real." Elizabeth's posts are always...

I'm currently crowd-funding a research project together with a colleague at LSU to investigate who reads science blogs, and why they do. One of our dedicated backers, Steph Januchowski-Hartley, is generously offering a new perk to those of you who back our Experiment.com project to research science blog readership. Donate now, get a FISH!(Ok, a drawing...

Susan Swanberg, @seswanberg on Twitter, is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Arizona (she teaches science journalism!) and a blogger at SciLogs.com. Susan write The Tenacious Telomere blog, where she blogs about science writing, her scientific inspirations, her book endeavors and, my favorite, her life in the desert among scorpions,...