Editorial positions available at scienceseeker.org

Before you rush off to apply, here’s a little information about scienceseeker.org from the About page,

There are thousands of science blogs around the world, written by active scientists, journalists, professors, students, and interested laypeople. But until now, there hasn’t been a good way for readers to sort through all of them. There are dozens of blog collectives, many sites that organize some of the information in the blogs, but none that attempt to encompass the entire range of science reporting, analysis, and discussion taking place at an astonishing pace, worldwide.

ScienceSeeker is our effort to fill that void. We have collected hundreds of blogs in one place, and invite you to submit even more. Our goal is to be the world’s most comprehensive aggregator of science discussions, all organized by topic.

This is a science blog aggregator and after one year of operation where they’ve attracted 900 blogs, the data has become overwhelming for most people. To help you sort through the data, ScienceSeeker.org is looking for editors (excerpted from the news page),

The primary job of the new editors will be to share their favorite ScienceSeeker posts. They’ll select five posts a week from blogs covering their areas of expertise, and readers will be able to view those posts on our site or subscribe to a feed of just the recommended posts. We expect this to take just a few minutes each day.

Qualifications:

  • An active online presence on a blog and / or social networking sites like Twitter, Google+, and FaceBook
  • We don’t require that our editors have PhDs, but the candidates we select will have demonstrated expertise via their blogging or other publication record.
  • Enthusiasm for science

If you’re interested in the job, please email dsmunger@gmail.com with a paragraph or two about why you would like to be an editor, and provide a link to 2 or 3 of your own online posts about science that you feel are especially good. Link your social media feeds and other relevant sites, if any. You may attach or link to a curriculum vitae.

Editors will be permanently listed on ScienceSeeker.org, so this position will make a great addition to your CV. We will select the new editors by February 1, 2012.

I gather money will not be one of the benefits offered but you will have a permanent (?) addition to your curriculum vitae (CV). I assume they mean permanent in the sense that your name will be listed as long as there is a ScienceSeeker.org.

2 thoughts on “Editorial positions available at scienceseeker.org

  1. Dave Munger

    Thanks for the mention! Yes, these are volunteer positions, and we’ve updated the post to make that clearer, but as we say in the announcement, we expect it will take a typical editor just a few minutes per day.

  2. admin

    Hi Dave! You’re welcome, thank you for dropping by, and good luck with finding editors. Cheers, Maryse

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