{"id":99017,"date":"2013-11-30T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2013-11-30T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:32:08","slug":"endings-beginnings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/30\/endings-beginnings-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings &amp; beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> Comments enabled now!<\/p>\n<p>Until further notice this is my last post as a blogger at <i>Discover Magazine<\/i>. This shouldn&#8217;t impact regular readers. As always you can follow me by going to:<\/p>\n<p>My feed, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RazibKhansTotalFeed\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RazibKhansTotalFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/razibkhan\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/razibkhan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, my website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razib.com\/\">http:\/\/www.razib.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From December 1st, 2013, I will be blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/26\/us\/conservative-leads-effort-to-raise-minimum-wage-in-california.html?_r=0\">Ron Unz&#8217;s<\/a> new website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/\">The Unz Review<\/a>, at a familar subdomain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/gnxp\/\">http:\/\/www.unz.com\/gnxp<\/a> (feed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/gnxp\/feed\/\">http:\/\/www.unz.com\/gnxp\/feed\/<\/a>)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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 <em>Gene Expression<\/em>\u00a0sub-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 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/\">Gene Expression<\/a><\/em> website with the content generated at <em>ScienceBlogs<\/em> and <em>Discover<\/em>, so no matter where I go, or if I stop blogging due to other obligations, those archives will remain as a coherent whole.<\/p>\n<p><b>I want to emphasize that my time at <i>Discover<\/i> was incredible.<\/b> I want to give special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waterlogging\">Tasha Eichenseher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settostun\">Amos Zeeberg<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sheril_\">Sheril Kirshenbaum<\/a>. As it happens none of these individuals are associated with <i>Discover<\/i> at this point (Tasha is leaving as well), but they were instrumental in allowing me to either be here (in Sheril&#8217;s case) or focus on writing (in Tasha and Amos&#8217; case). I assume you&#8217;ll be somewhat surprised that I mention Sheril, but I feel like I have to give special thanks to her because I&#8217;m 99% sure that it was her &#8220;good word&#8221; which allowed me to catch the eye of an outfit as respectable as <i>Discover<\/i>. Unlike a blogger as writerly as <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/blog\/not-exactly-rocket-science\/\">Ed Yong<\/a>, or Sheril herself, I&#8217;ve always been more data nerd-<i>cum<\/i>-verbal pugilist. So this leads me to praise the great management skills of the two web editors I&#8217;ve had while being a blogger at <i>Discover<\/i>. They&#8217;ve let &#8220;Razib be Razib,&#8221; by and large letting me do my thing (though yes, in the interests of professionalism I&#8217;ve moved most of the more &#8220;direct&#8221; verbal volleys to Twitter). I really can&#8217;t thank anyone else at <i>Discover<\/i> because I barely knew they existed, <b>which, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/doing-good-science\/2013\/10\/12\/standing-with-dnlee-and-discovering-science\/\">in light of recent events<\/a>, seems like a good thing. <\/b>Overall I give\u00a0<em>Discover\u00a0<\/em>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 &#8220;right-thinking-people&#8221; the wrong way, and scoured the comment threads acidly.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s really not much else to say. Aside from a new domain, don&#8217;t expect many changes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/endings-beginnings\/\">Endings &amp; beginnings<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/mYZAPZDcY1s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Comments enabled now! Until further notice this is my last post as a blogger at Discover Magazine. This shouldn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/endings-beginnings\/\">Endings &amp; beginnings<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,2407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-farewell-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99018,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99017\/revisions\/99018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}