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 based science bloggers. The network was founded in late 2009 and includes a syndicate of scientists from universities, Crown Research Institutes

Crown Research Institutes

In New Zealand, Crown Research Institutes are corporatised Crown entities charged with conducting scientific research.Crown Research Institutes date from 1992, with most formed out of the parts of the former Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and of elements of various government...

 and private research organisations.

Sciblogs.co.nz was established in September 2009 by the Science Media Centre (NZ) http://sciencemediacentre.co.nz funded by the Ministry of Research, Science & Technology (MoRST) through the Royal Society of New Zealand

Royal Society of New Zealand

The Royal Society of New Zealand , known as the New Zealand Institute before 1933, was established in 1867 to co-ordinate and assist the activities of a number of regional research societies including the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute of...

. It is based on the opensource Wordpress MU platform. Around half of the blogs are syndicated from existing science bloggers, the rest are hosted exclusively on Sciblogs. Sciblogs content is syndicated on Google News and Scoop.co.nz.

The site is one of the largest blog networks in New Zealand.

Bloggers on sciblogs.co.nz

Author	Blog name	Topic	Original / Syndicated	Link
Ken Perrott	Open Parachute	critical thinking Critical thinking Critical thinking is the process or method of thinking that questions assumptions. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, false, or sometimes true and sometimes false, or partly true and partly false. The origins of critical thinking can be traced in Western thought to the Socratic...	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/open-parachute/
Jim McVeagh	MacDoctor	Politics and Medicine	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/macdoctor/
Gareth Renowden	Hot Topic	climate change Climate change Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/hot-topic/
Alison Campbell	BioBlog	biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/bioblog/
Grant Jacobs	Code for life	Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...	Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/
Ken Collins	The Science of Architecture	Architecture Architecture Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...		http://sciblogs.co.nz/science-of-architecture/
Bright Ideas Challenge	Bright Ideas Challenge			http://sciblogs.co.nz/bright-ideas-challenge/
Matthew Wood	Journeys to the Ice	Antarctica		http://sciblogs.co.nz/journeystotheice/
Peter Griffin	Visibly shaken			http://sciblogs.co.nz/editors-picks/
Anna Sandiford	Forensic Scientist	Forensic Science		http://sciblogs.co.nz/forensic-scientist/
Peter Griffin	Guest Work	Guest bloggers		http://sciblogs.co.nz/guestwork/
Andy Reisinger	Degrees of Change	Climate Change Climate change Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...		http://sciblogs.co.nz/degrees-of-change/
John Nixon	Light my Fibre		Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/light-my-fibre/
Vic Arcus	Lab Rinth	Biochemistry Biochemistry Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...	Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/labrinth/
Shaun Hendy	A measure of Science		Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/a-measure-of-science/
Darcy Cowan	Skepticon	Skeptics	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/skepticon/
Kevin Hicks	New Zealand Science Talk		Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/nz-science-talk/
Brendan Moyle	Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings	Wildlife Wildlife Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/chthonic-wildlife-ramblings/
Hilary Miller	The chicken or the Egg?	Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/chicken-or-egg/
Motoko Kakubayashi	kagaku	Gadgets	Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/kagaku/
Aimee Whitcroft	misc.ience		Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/misc-ience/
Bryan Walker	Hot Topic	Climate Change Climate change Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...		http://sciblogs.co.nz/hot-topic/
David Winter	the atavism		Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/the-atavism/
Peter Griffin	Griffin's Gadgets		Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/griffins-gadgets/
Robert McCormick	Relatively Science			http://sciblogs.co.nz/relatively-science/
Mike Kilpatrick	NZ Skeptic	skeptics	Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/nz-skeptic/
Daniel Collins	Crikey Creek	Water Cycle Water cycle The water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle or H2O cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and solid at various places in the water cycle...		http://sciblogs.co.nz/crikey-creek/
Aaron Small	The Scientist NZ		Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/the-scientist-nz/
Fabiana Kubke	Building Blogs of Science		Syndicated	http://sciblogs.co.nz/building-blogs-of-science/
Rebecca McLeod	Science life	Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...	Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/science-life/
Amanda Johnson	Food Stuff	Food Science Food science Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork"...	Original	http://sciblogs.co.nz/food-stuff/