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I don’t usually do lists here at Freethinker’s, but as we’re coming to the end of the decade, I thought it appropriate to take a look at where we’ve been.  Since starting the blog in 2005 with this post: American Evangelists Report Feeling Persecuted, I’ve written 240 posts, an average of 68 per year. Here are the top 10 posts of all time, as determined by visitor page views:

10. Awesome Scientist – Neil deGrasse Tyson – April 30, 2009, 75 page views.

9. Tiger Scat – July 5, 2007, 93 page views.

8. Chororapithecus abyssinicus – August 23, 2007, 94 page views.

7. Watson’s Lecture Canceled After Racist Remarks – October 18, 2007, 165 page views.

6. Homo floresiensis – Human or Not? – September 21, 2007, 193 page views.

5. Lost Tomb of Jesus? – March 5, 2007, 205 page views.

4. Chimpanzee Locomotion and Bipedalism – July 26, 2007, 209 page views.

3. Genomics and Biogeography – September 11, 2007, 222 page views.

2. The Hazards of Scientific Reporting – August 18, 2007, 475 page views.

1. Awesome Scientists: Dr. Julie Schablitsky – November 9, 2007, 486 page views.

Nine of the top ten are from 2007, a year when my focus was research blogging.  I was reading primary literature of interest to me, anyway, and the blog was a nice outlet for discussing new work.  It’s something I lost time for in the last two years, as analyzing data and writing my dissertation took precedence.  I have an enormous stack of articles from that time that I wanted to read but never got to.

I’d like to get back to blogging about research. Part of my job as a postdoc is keeping up with my field, so my plan (until life/classes/kids/work gets in the way) is to post once a week about the research that drew me to science in the first place.