Some discussion last week in Men are from Science, Women are from Fashion and Style prompted me to look through the BlogHer blogrolls for some women's blogs about science. I also did some looking on Google.

I did find women blogging about science. If you are a woman blogging about science and aren't already on the BlogHer blogroll, please share your blog with us, too.

The BlogHer blogroll contains a link to Discovering biology in a digital world, an inactive blog belonging to Sandra Porter that has been incorporated into a larger site called Science Blogs where there are almost 100 blogs about science with regular posts. I easily found Sandra' posts, still under the blog name Discovering biology in a digital world in the Science Blogs network list. Sandra's most recent post is Medicine 2.0 Carnival: How are web 2.0 technologies changing the practice of medicine?

On June 1st, I'll be hosting the next edition of Medicine 2.0, a carnival devoted to exploring the impacts of web 2.0 technologies on medicine and medical practice.

All topics that consider the impacts of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare are fair game.

* Are you talking with doctors about sexually transmitted diseases in Second Life?
* Have you had your genome sequenced? Do your doctors send you e-mail?
* Are you using web technologies to measure your food consumption and calorie burning?

If you have an article that you think fits the description, feel free to submit it to me.

I took a look at Medicine 2.0 and found 24 previous blog carnival events about medicine and web 2.0. Each blog carnival is hosted by a different medical professional and the results and comments are posted in places appropriate to the host. The information at Medicine 2.0 links to each of these web events. When you follow the link to one of these blog carnivals, you find a collection of links to information on a particular topic. Carnival number #24 was posted at My MD Journey.

Following the links for each of the carnivals listed at Medicine 2.0 would lead an interested reader to a huge collection of medical bloggers.

Google led me to Humans in Science, where Alethea, an American biologist living in France, writes about life as a scientist, a parent, and a professional working outside her home country. In her latest post, Build it because you can, she talks about the difficulties of getting scientists to use Wikis, and concludes,

This is one thing I was going to go to Science Blogging 2008 to discuss in person with other users of scientific networking tools.

I immediately followed her link to Science Blogging 2008, where I learn that

The science blogging community is growing rapidly and reaching larger audiences. At Science Blogging 2008, science bloggers from around the world will have the opportunity to meet and discuss the pressing issues in science, science communication, publishing and education. What can science bloggers do to maximise their impact? Can blogging contribute to scientific research and careers? How can blogs be used to help educate the public about science? Readers and writers of science blogs, those who follow trends in online scientific communication and anyone else interested in learning more about science blogging will benefit from the discussions.

This sounds like a blurb for SXSW Interactive or BlogHer, doesn't it? We all have the same concerns.

A blog well known to BlogHers is Female Science Professor. The latest post fits right in with the BlogHer article I cited in the very beginning about female in the fashion and style pages of the New York Times. In Sexism-Driven Science. She introduces her report like this:

There are surely untold numbers of excellent scientists who are sexist, but I know of at least one example in which sexism is resulting in Bad Science. I should say at the outset that I am not enraged, outraged, or even upset about this. I am rather entertained because the sexism-driven science is becoming absurdly bad, to the detriment of the scientific reputation of the Sexist Scientists, and I think that is a fair outcome of their behavior and actions.

I'll repeat my invitation to any female science blogger who would like to be listed here at BlogHer. Please join us. Here are the directions for how to do just that from Using this site.

List your blog: After you've registered, you'll want to list your blog(s) so it will appear in the BlogHer blog directory. Here's how: Click the purple "Create Content" button at the top right side of the page and click "List a Blog". Make sure to select topic(s) that your blog is really about. Once our editors review it, (We have to be careful, we don't want to build SpamHer), your blog will appear in the "blogs" tag within the Topic(s) you selected. (NOTE: If BlogHer's ediitors feel you've misfiled your blog, we'll change it.) While you're creating that weblink, don't forget to include a really good description of your blog when you list it. This blog description can either lure people into your blog or lull them to sleep, which would you prefer?