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Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
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Category: ashg2009
I'll be away for the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Hawaii for most of the next couple of weeks - I'll be covering the conference primarily via Twitter, and you can follow all of the tweets from the...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:15 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: conference blogging
Scientist Cameron Neylon has put together a set of icons that conference presenters can use to indicate their position on live-blogging of presented data.
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Category: conference blogging
A Nature News article discusses the promise and the perils of live-blogging conference presentations.
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Category: conference blogging
An editorial in Nature clarifies the issues surrounding blogging of unpublished data in conference presentations, confirming that this will not be considered to break embargo on work considered for publication in the journal.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:37 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: conference blogging
Readers who haven't seen it already may be interested in the post and subsequent discussion on conference blogging taking place on Dr Isis' blog.I feel that Dr Isis' post misrepresents my position in several ways (see this clarifying comment from...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:38 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: conference blogging
While we wait for conference organisers to begin formulating specific policies for live-blogging, it would be ideal if we had some way for speakers to indicate whether their presentation is freely bloggable - so I'm calling for suggestions for a useful intro slide icon indicating that a talk is "blog-safe". Any ideas?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: cshl
Links to some vigorous online discussion about the role of social media in scientific conferences, triggered by my blogging of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Biology of Genomes meeting.
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Category: cshl
A post on ScienceInsider discusses a policy change at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory stirred up by my recent live-blogging of their Biology of Genomes meeting.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 10:10 AM • 23 Comments •
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