I agree, Matt Strassler is a gifted communicator. It's a tragedy that he has left full-time theoretical physics for greener pastures as a result of the huge (a

I agree, Matt Strassler is a gifted communicator. It's a tragedy that he has left full-time theoretical physics for greener pastures as a result of the huge (as in double-digit percentages, and in some cases more than a third) cuts in research budgets in the USA, coupled with his desire to remain working in the States. Unfortunately there are quite a few good working-scientist bloggers who have been producing much reduced output as a result of lower funding in general. Some have moved out of the USA and continue to blog. Some have had to focus themselves on earning survival income by pushing out many grant proposals in hopes of even partial funding, and simply cannot afford to take the time to explain other scientsists' work to non-scientists. Some have, alas, mostly stopped blogging altogether.