(UK) science policy blogs
Prompted by the brief interview about blogging with CaSE Director Imran Khan on my blog today, I thought I'd post the links to science policy blogs (mainly UK) I've collected.
There must be more than this - let me know what I'm missing/ have really stupidly forgotten about....
- Research Fortnight's Exquisite Life - this is probably my favourite.
- The New Scientist's S-Word (science being the "s-word" they argue too often left unmentioned in politics)
- I think it's worth mentioning the Times Science blog (paywall warning) and Nature's Great Beyond for their coverage of science policy. One of the reasons I rate them both so highly within mainstream science media.
- CaSE's the scivote blog.
- Genomes Unzipped, a new collaborative blog on personal genomics, promises some discussion of policy.
- A blog on health policy and GP contract issues, etc.
- Maybe not a blog, but they have RSS feeds - the SciDev.Net policy briefs.
- Moving onto academic centres, the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog from the University of Durham. The Steps Centre and Innogen also have blogs, as does STS at Oxford. The blog from the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk (University of Cambridge) also sometimes cover science policy.
- From the US, there is Roger Pielke Jr's blog, or 2020Science often covers policy (nano/ engagement).
- The British Ecological Society and Royal Society of Chemistry have blogs, which will cover policy. Surely other learned societies do too?
- Simon Denegri, CEO of the AMRC blogs.
- The UK's only blogging chief scientist, Andrew Wadge of the FSA at Hungry for Science.
- Also from the UK government there is Sciencewise (covers engagement policy).
- The BBSRC have a blogs site - other research councils?
- Richard Jones' blog Soft Machines provides some very thoughtful posts on science in society issues, including policy analysis (esp. around nano). A few other personal blogs that will post on science policy issues include Jon Butterworth's Life and Physics, Adan Nieman's posterous, Andy Russell's Our Clouded Hills, Hilary Sutcliffe's Matter for All (again, nano) and Stephen Curry on Nature Network.
- Bad Science (Ben Goldacre) often covers health policy issues, as do a fair few others in the "bad science blogging community, e.g. Lay Science, Gimpy and Dr Petra.
- ADDED 15/7: The Engineer have a blog, which includes posts on policy issues.
- ADDED 29/7: The Royal Society have started a policy blog.
Thanks to @JoBrodie @kieronflanagan @AlexConnor @marilyneb and @Jackstilgoe for some tips compiling this list. Please do comment with more. They don't have to be from the UK!