著名的Research Blogging继去年评奖，今年继续评。今年包括中文部分，奖金不算多（唯一的大奖是一千美金），但荣誉在那儿。我一直认为做科学人的博客应该谈科学，Research Blogging做的就是这件事。

现在的情况大致是，做科学的人写博客大多数加入八卦人群（中国人除了做苦工就是八卦了），而民科们却在网上大谈“科学”。

我过去说过我的博客对我们小组的研究起到非常正面的作用，最近更是如此。例如和陈焕阳的合作，和王一的合作，博客都有影响。我关注Verlinde的工作，他人的博客也起到很大的作用。

我被邀请做这次中文部分的judge，但由于Research Blogging中文博客不多，请大家推荐一些中文科学博客，如果仅仅是科学家写的不谈研究的博客就别推荐了，也不包括仅仅谈科普的博客。我要是觉得合适，我就提名给他们。

自荐也可以，请大家不要客气。

下面是Research Blogging的编辑Dave Munger的来信。

Dear Miao Li,

I’m writing to invite you to be a judge for the Research Blogging Awards. As you may know, we’re now taking nominations for the award, and a panel of judges will look at the nominees and pick 5 to 10 finalists in each category. One of the categories is “Best Blog — Chinese-Language” and we think you would be an excellent judge for this category.

The judge will work with our Chinese editors to pick the finalists.

Here’s a link to the awards http://researchblogging.org/awards

The judging will take place between February 11 and 25. Because Chinese is a new language for our site, there will probably be not be a lot of nominees; we would appreciate it if you could also suggest additional deserving blogs to be finalists for the award.

Please let me know if you are interested in being one of our judges. Thank you!

Dave