Update: Comments enabled now! Until further notice this is my last post as a blogger at Discover Magazine. This shouldn't impact regular readers. As always you can follow me by going to: My feed, http://feeds.feedburner.com/RazibKhansTotalFeed My Twitter, https://twitter.com/razibkhan And of course, my website, http://www.razib.com From December 1st, 2013, I will be blogging at Ron Unz's new website, The Unz Review, at a familar subdomain
http://www.unz.com/gnxp (feed, http://www.unz.com/gnxp/feed/)
. I'm excited to explore this new opportunity. Ron is still nailing down the details of look, style, and functionality, so expect some changes on my Gene Expression sub-site. To make a long story short Ron wanted to beef up his science coverage, and I was amenable. At least when it comes to my particular bailiwick. Ron has merged my archives from the old Gene Expression website with the content generated at ScienceBlogs and Discover, so no matter where I go, or if I stop blogging due to other obligations, those archives will remain as a coherent whole.
I want to emphasize that my time at Discover was incredible.
I want to give special thanks to Tasha Eichenseher, Amos Zeeberg, and Sheril Kirshenbaum. As it happens none of these individuals are associated with Discover at this point (Tasha is leaving as well), but they were instrumental in allowing me to either be here (in Sheril's case) or focus on writing (in Tasha and Amos' case). I assume you'll be somewhat surprised that I mention Sheril, but I feel like I have to give special thanks to her because I'm 99% sure that it was her "good word" which allowed me to catch the eye of an outfit as respectable as Discover. Unlike a blogger as writerly as Ed Yong, or Sheril herself, I've always been more data nerd-cum-verbal pugilist. So this leads me to praise the great management skills of the two web editors I've had while being a blogger at Discover. They've let "Razib be Razib," by and large letting me do my thing (though yes, in the interests of professionalism I've moved most of the more "direct" verbal volleys to Twitter). I really can't thank anyone else at Discover because I barely knew they existed,
which, in light of recent events, seems like a good thing.
Overall I give Discover a good grade in terms of understanding how blogging should be run, with a light hand. This, despite the fact that I often put up posts which rubbed many "right-thinking-people" the wrong way, and scoured the comment threads acidly. There's really not much else to say. Aside from a new domain, don't expect many changes.
