1. Blog 1 - Scientist at work. This blog is clear, reader friendly, interesting, presents general facts, some solid points of the scientific method, but it does it on a day by day basis and not in a single coherent story; I would say that it is directed to people with some level of education and academic background in research.
2. Blog 2 - Marine conservation news. This blog is less scientifically oriented, more of a commentary from people, and is based on little empirical evidence. I would describe its format as brief, simple in vocabulary and with a not well-structured writing.
3. Blog 3 - Zooillogix. Here the ideas are good in spotlighting creatures, but in interpreting research facts is not that good. Language used in not technical, nor well-written, although it has very good videos that are very appealing. Too brief to convey a complete message, but eye-catching for the videos.
4. Blog 4 - The EEEB and flow. Scientifically based texts, lots of heavy scientific concepts, interesting and thought-provoking for research-related people (e.g., grad students and scientists).
5. Blog 5 - Science Friday blog. It conveys little scientific information relating it with our everyday life, some political aspects and with a tinge of sarcasm. Information is very short and explicitly directs the authors’ opinion. I did not like the superficial content, nor the way it is presented.
6. Blog 6 - Parasite of the day. It conveys scientific information on parasites related to their biological cycle, new species, new hosts, and the like in a technical succinct format. For those of us with some scientific background, we would feel comfortable reading and learning basic information from it, but for non-scientific background public it would be a little too technical the way is described and the use of scientific names would discourage readers from getting the whole point.
If I had to select and recommend one blog out of these six cases for my non-research-related friends, I would choose, without a doubt, “scientists at work – notes from the field” based on the well-structured writing, flow of ideas, descriptive style, simplicity, and appealing formats used (e.g., text, pictures and videos). The only tricky thing herein is that the reader has to read the whole blog or most of it to understand the big picture of the research and concatenate the codes (e.g., names of the primate packs or families) and ideas presented due to its nature (i.e., it is a field diary).
As concerns for myself, and other science-related people, I would go for “The EEEB and flow” blog due to its top scientific quality material, critical reviews, informative, brief extension, thought-provoking, perusal-inducing, and well-written texts. I would also recommend “scientists at work – notes from the field” due to the properties mentioned on the previous paragraph and also because they concisely describe parts of another critical step on science: methods or how they are conducting and developing their research including typical everyday problems.
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