There are 102 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program (now completely reshuffled) is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 82 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I will be highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Hemai Parthasarathy is a dear friend of mine, and one of the Biggest Stars we managed to attract to our conference. After getting degrees in biophysics and systems neuroscience and some postdoc time in neuroscience, she decided to change her career trajectory and accepted the invitation from Nature to serve as an editor, where she remained for five years, and then joined the team that founded PLoS Biology where she worked as the Managing Editor for another 4.5 years. She has talked and written quite a lot about Open Access and the business of science publishing and you can hear her talking about it in this podcast recorded at the last SXSW conference.
At the Conference, she will lead the session on Open Science and you are invited to add questions, comments and ideas for the session by editing this wiki page. To meet Hemai in person, you'll have to register for the conference - registration is free!
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Is it just me, or does it seem like most science blogging is centered around the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina?...
Sadly, I'm too poor to attend...And I suspect that I'm not likely to get much sympathy if I whine on ScienceBlogs that winning the College Blogging scholarship might solve that problem. (Besides competing against Official ScienceBlogger Shelley Batts, I'm having trouble imagining people getting really excited about getting some random commenter on their blog to a conference...)
Posted by: SMC | October 8, 2007 2:06 PM
That's a great picture of Hemai!
Posted by: PhysioProf | October 8, 2007 7:32 PM
Yes it is - my favourite. Taken at 'Jupiter' in Berkeley, my last night in San Francisco last summer.
Posted by: Coturnix | October 9, 2007 1:08 PM