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Community Page Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy * Shelley A. Batts , Nicholas J. Anthis, Tara C. Smith cientific discovery occurs in the postdoctoral fellow and blogger at De make it more palatable to institutional lab one experiment at a time, but Rerum Natura (http://dererumnatura. hosts and more trustworthy to readers; science itself moves forward based us/), disagreed with the conclusions creating mechanisms for institutions to S on a series of ongoing conversations, of a paper in Nature [3] and posited provide appropriate (but not stifling) from a Nobel Prize winner’s acceptance what he argued was a more probable oversight to blogs and to facilitate speech to collegial chats at a pub. interpretation of the data on his high-quality interactions between When these conversations flow into blog [4]. University of Washington blogs, institutions, and readers; the mainstream, they nurture the researcher Luca Comai was about to and incorporating blogs into meta- development of an informed public publish a letter to the editor arguing conversations within and between who understand the value of funding for the same alternate hypothesis when institutions. basic research and making evidence- he read Cartwright’s blog, and realized based voting decisions. It is in the he had been beaten to the punch. In Building the Foundation from the interests of scientists and academic the end, the blogger and researcher Bottom Up institutions alike