Research Blogging Awards 2010

I’d like to thank my my family, my cats, and especially my therapist… Yes, Epiphenom has won an award! It’s a particularly satisfying one, because it’s the Research Blogging Awards– with Epiphenom the winner in the Social Science/Anthropology category.

The Research Blogging Awards are voted for by fellow research bloggers, so it’s doubly satisfying to win. You can listen to a podcast by Dave Munger and Joy More (of Seed Media, who are behind the awards) – and there’s also a transcript if listening’s not your thing.

There’s $50 prize money, which I’ll look to see if they can donate directly to a charity (rather than converting first to sterling). But which charity?

So here’s a chance for readers! I’d like you to nominate/vote for a US charity that you think should get the cash. Not a humanist one – I’m thinking something like Médecins Sans Frontières or Oxfam (OK neither of them are US charities, but they have US affiliation). In other words, a secular charity working on an international scale.

By the way, congratulations to Ed Yong and Not Exactly Rocket Science, who’s walked off with the $1000 award for the Research Blog of the year. It’s a consistently excellent blog, and fully deserves the award!

This article by Tom Rees was first published on Epiphenom. It is licensed under Creative Commons.