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brayton_headshot_wre_1443.jpg Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)

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YearlyKos Conference

Posted on: April 21, 2007 10:21 AM, by Ed Brayton

Now that the lineup has been announced for the science panel at the YearlyKos conference, I can reveal that I have been invited to speak there along with fellow ScienceBlogger Chris Mooney and Sean Carroll (the CalTech astrophysicist, not the UW vertebrate paleontologist). The conference is in Chicago the first weekend in August and I will be participating in two events, the panel with the two of them (where each of us will be speaking briefly on different but related subjects) and a science blogging caucus (which will be moderated by ScienceBlogger PZ Myers). This should be a lot of fun and if anyone here is planning to attend, I look forward to meeting you. I am particularly looking forward to meeting Chris and Sean, both of whom I've corresponded with and admired from afar for years. Thanks to my old pal DarkSyde for his hard work in making the event a reality.

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The Sean Carroll at Wisconsin is a developmental biologist. I don't think he even works on vertebrates (his research is on Drosophila mostly).

Posted by: RPM | April 21, 2007 11:12 AM

2

Ed and PZ at the same conference? Hmm....

Who wants to set up a fight between the two of them? Maybe we can make it a charity event: people pledge $1 for every minute they last, or for every blow they get in.

Posted by: Skemono | April 21, 2007 12:00 PM

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I'm sorry Ed, but I really can't get over the idea that you and PZ are going to be in the same room...

Posted by: valhar2000 | April 21, 2007 2:38 PM

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Major congratulations. Sitting on the same panel as Mooney and Carroll*. I'm reading both of their books--when are you going to write yours?

*Yes, I really do know who Sean Carroll the physicist is.

Posted by: raj | April 22, 2007 7:24 AM

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Having me and PZ in the same room won't be a problem. No, we don't like each other but there's no rule that says we have to. I'll be professional and congenial and I have no doubt he will as well.

Posted by: Ed Brayton | April 22, 2007 10:11 AM

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Professional and congenial? That sounds like weak tea from an the industrial kitchen of a third-rate corporation. Let me bring a brace of pistols. PZ and you can take the required shot at each other, near some body of water, just after dawn's gloaming, and for the rest of your lives, you will be comrades. Certainly not professional. And not always congenial. But better than the "professional and congenial" diffidence of two school marms in a snit.

;-)

Posted by: Russell | April 22, 2007 11:32 AM

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Fun! That's a hell of a registration fee, though.

Posted by: Gretchen | April 23, 2007 8:18 AM

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