A Blog Around The Clock

There are 85 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 106 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 am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.

Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD student studying hearing (more precisely hair cell regeneration in the cochlea) at the University of Michigan. She writes the excellent blog Retrospectacle where you may have also met her parrot Pepper. She is currently in the second place for the 2007 Blogging Scholarship and, since the voting ends midnight of the 28th, she needs your vote now!

Kate Seip is a PhD student at Rutgers, exploring the intersection between hormones, brain, and (mostly parenting, but also reproductive) behavior both in her research and on her delightful blog The Anterior Commissure. I am proud that the picture of her on her blog profile was taken by me, around 1am in New York City this past summer:

Brian Switek is another Rutgers student, majoring in ecology and evolution, with a particular interest in palaeontology. He is the most recent addition to Seed Scienceblogs - see his lovely blog Laelaps for the new stuff and dig through the archives of his old blog for additional bloggy goodness (before it gets gradually moved to the new site).

Anne-Marie Hodge is ambitious: working towards a dual Zoology/Conservation Biology degree and minoring in Ecology and Anthropology at Auburn University in Alabama. She also works as an assistant in the Mammalogy Department of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History. Although a young undergrad (just turned 21), she has already done some cool field research on maned wolves and loves to write about bats on her delightful blog Pondering Pikaia.

These four student bloggers (together with a couple of others I have already introduced in this series of morning posts) will be on the Student blogging panel--from K to PhD at the Conference.

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.

If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board - just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.

Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.

Please use 'scienceblogging.com' as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.