Science blogging: The essential guide - Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire, Jason G. Goldman 2016

Science blogging: The essential guide - Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire, Jason G. Goldman 2016

Preface

To blog or not to blog

From page to pixel

How to set up a science blog

Using science art and imagery in a blog

Building an audience for your blog

Ethical considerations for science bloggers

The deal with networks

Indie blogging: On being a “Ronin”

Getting interactive

Brevity is the soul of microblogging

Science and the art of personal storytelling

Using social media to diversify science

I’m not going to tell you how to be a woman science blogger

Blogging as an early career journalist

Institutional blogging

Blogging as a resource for science education

Communicating science as a graduate student

Blogging on the tenure track

Metrics

Toot your own horn

Blogging at scientific conferences

Tackling the hard sciences

Blogging about controversial topics

Persuading the unpersuadable

Who’s paying?

From science blog to book

Afterword

Acknowledgments