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Today, ScienceBlogs launches a site makeover sponsored by Koch Industries. "Koch's vision for science communication...

Angry by Choice , The Allotrope , The Astronomist , The Biology Files , C6-H12-O6 , Catalogue of Organisms / Variety of Life , The Curious Wavefunction , Disease Prone , Epiphenom , Games with Words , Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience , The Greenhouse , Lab Rat , Labs , The Large Picture Blog , Plektix , Rule of 6ix , Sex, Genes & Evolution , Skeptic Wonder . Simply add "/view" to the end of any FoS blog URL (i.e. http://lpb.fieldofscience.com /view ) for a fresh look at your favorite FoS blog.

Grab the script and drop it in your sidebar for a constant feed of the latest hand picked space news and images. While I'm not one to self-promote, I really must confess to being stupid good at what it is that this widget does. <script src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/pps/imagebadge_1.3.js"> { "pipe_id":"137778abf0cc259378c22ff19f34d263", "hideHeader":true, "img_params" : {maxitems:15, autoscroll:true, autoscrolldelay:10} } </script>

This is a quick update on TelescopeFeed. 1. I shuttered /r/FoS/  and moved the bulk of that activity to the TelescopeFeed blog  Exo . 2. Layed the foundation for the "Observatory" blogs. 3. Turned on the lights and sent up the first flare .

I'll be experimenting with using The Greenhouse to reblog select science blog posts from across the science blogosphere. Format-wise, it's likely going to be a bit rough around the edges at first, so my apologies in advance.

For 2011 I'll be developing a sister science blog network to Field of Science called TelescopeFeed . While TelescopeFeed is little more than an address at this time, I expect my small but elite readership might enjoy watching the site as it is developed from the ground up. For you, I'll try to be good about posting updates at this feed and that feed . As the name suggests, TelescopeFeed will aspire to be a space sciences science blog network (Astronomy, Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Exoplanetology, etc). If you know of any such scientists, engineers, journalists or amateurs who might be interested blogging their passions, I would appreciate your informing them of this new project. Recall last year I made a few noises about building a network of science blog networks . The offer at the time was to collaborate/teach science bloggers how to set up their own low cost, low maintenance science blog networks using the Field of Science model. While I didn't have any takers at ...

Field of Science has come a good distance in its leisurely two years. In keeping with that pace, I thought I'd finally get around to opening up the floodgates to all the newly uninspired science bloggers out there who maybe thought once or twice about joining a network, but ultimately couldn't be bothered. Field of Science lacks a grand manifesto/mind numbing contract/long winded code of conduct. We're also without a marketing department, a revenue stream, an editorial hierarchy, or corrupting force of any sort as far as I'm aware. In fact, if you look closely, you'll discover that the network itself is more or less just an allusion craftily assembled in order to give the appearance of some sort of official looking structure from which we propel our blog posts from the homely state of obscurity to the lofty realms of authoritative infallibility--which, as everyone knows, is the key to successful science blogging. Anyway, Field of Science is the new-old science ...