Cool title, isn’t it? First of all, I’m not actually considering publishing in these journals, though I’m still awaiting working out rocket dataset to do so. What I’m doing here is playing with the new wordpress poll gadget wondering if you consider Seeds Aside to be a nature blog or a science blog. Reader minds.
I’m asking because some people on the Science Online 09 did turn around the nature/science thing. I think nature blogs are to science blogs what rodents are to, say, animals, but it may not be as easy to figure out. So first, I would like to know what difference you make between the two, and whether you consider Seeds Aside a science or a nature blog.
Both. Science is the study of Nature. You gotta love what you study. Some posts will show the love, some posts will show the study.
Yep, that’s my feeling too. But then, any biology blog is a nature blog. And it seems like people really make the divide between a nature blog and a science blog. Though it doesn’t prevent Seeds Aside to be both, and some other blogs to drift until the two extremes along the line.
Off course, a strong difference might be the use of peer-reviewed refs. At least it allows for interested readers to read more if they have access to science literature, but it doesn’t mean lovely nature facts to stem from peer reviewed studies too. The difference is that these valuable knowledge bits sometimes have their original cite lost long away the road…