Hello all,

I got a great response from ASC members for this blog carnival, lending it an antipodean flavour, which was excellent! My orginal email is copied below, but EDITION 43 is PUBLISHED!! It is a great collection of contemporary science writing from around the world.

*You can read it here: http://traversingtherazor.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/scientia-pro-publica-43-loving-living-learning/ * This was a great experience and I recommend it to any science bloggers out there. It needs more hosts, and is looking to go weekly.

Cheers,

Mike http://traversingtherazor.wordpress.com/

Original email: *If you write a science related blog, then may I invite you to submit blog entries for one of the more popular science blog carnivals on the web. I will be hosting the 25 October edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) at my blog, Traversing the Razor. The post is hereat http://traversingtherazor.wordpress.com/*

*It would be great to get more Australian blogs on to it. *

*In fact, for those of you in the media, the story of the rise of science blogging and blog carnivals is an interesting one. This is consolidating as a way of delivering science content on the web, especially with the take up of blogs by newspapers like the Guardian in England, and journals like Nature hosting blogs too. I’m happy to help out here if you’re interested in the story.*

>From the blog :

Soon I will have the honour to present to you, dear readers, the 43rd Editionof *Scientia Pro Publica http://scientiablogcarnival.blogspot.com/*! This was a recent revelation for me, and I was fortunate enough to be included in edition 42hosted at Cosmodynamics http://cosmodynamics.blogspot.com/. Thanks Vanessa! *Scientia Pro Publica* is a bi-weekly carnival of the best science writing (well communication generally) from across the blogosphere. It has grown in stature to the point where the convener is now seriously contemplating making this a weekly thing. In other words, *Scientia Pro Publica* is becoming something akin to the Nature of science blogging. Ok, that might be a bit of a stretch, however, it is like a magazine – it relies on public blog submissions and the host to compile and editorialize a selection of submitted blog posts. Currently, it receives more than 50 submissions each time, and this grows with each new host as the network expands.

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