And the hottest scienceblogger is...

... at the end of the post. But first a disclaimer: to be included you had to (a) have a 'working science' blog indexed by Postgenomic, (b) have claimed your blog on Technorati and (c) have uploaded a portrait there. That's why the set of bloggers represented is relatively small.

Anyway, the results:

It's looking pretty bad for male sciencebloggers. People prefer the monkeys.

	Number	Average Hotness
Women	4	89.25
Primates (inc. those stuffed or crudely anthromorphised)	3	68
Other non-human portraits	21	53.38
Men	37	47.02

If you want some context, know that the 'skulls and skeletons' subcategory of 'other non-human portraits' has an average hotness of 56.

Is it a clean shaven thing? Chicks don't dig beards.

	Number	Average Hotness
Beardy Men	12	39.58
Non-Beardy Men	25	52.76

PZ Myers is a beardy exception, with a respectable hotness of 80.

I thought that it might be interesting to see how different types of scientist compare. Apparently climate change and medicine is hot, biotech is not.

	Number	Average Hotness
Earth and Environment	5	65.80
Neuroscience	9	64.4
Clinical Practice & Research	4	62.25
Science and Society	7	58.70
Physics	7	55.15
Bioinformatics	8	55.12
Natural History	3	54.33
Life Sciences	23	54.34
Biotechnology	4	36.00

And now what you've really come here for: who are the five hottest sciencebloggers on the planet (whose blogs are indexed by Postgenomic and claimed on Technorati by a user with a portrait which isn't of a stuffed monkey, a moose or a pair of underpants)?

1. Retrospectacle

2. Chaotic Utopia

3. The Scientific Activist

4. Pharyngula

5. Notes from the Biomass