Astronomy blog wins contest

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The linkurl:votes;http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-science-blog-1.php are in, and linkurl:Bad Astronomy,;http://www.badastronomy.com/ a site maintained by erstwhile astronomer Phil Plait, has just barely won the 2007 Weblog Award for Best Science Blog. Bad Astronomy beat out linkurl:Climate Audit,;http://www.climateaudit.org/ a site that frequently posts entries downplaying human contributions to climate change, by only 0.1% or 45 votes. The final days of voting were marked by a linkurl:frantic race;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53847/ between Bad Astronomy and Climate Audit, with several bloggers urging their readers to vote for one or the other site. The 2007 Weblog Awards website notes that the poll results are not yet final. "This poll is still being checked for excessive voting from individual machines," the site reads. "If excess voting is found it will be noted and the votes will be removed." Voters were allowed to cast a vote once every 24 hours. According to the site, the official winner will be announced Monday (November 12th).

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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