Conference Blogging:
John Wilkins and I have been at the Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects workshop here in Salt Lake City for the past few days. John live-blogged some of the talks, so you may want to check his posts out....
Posted on March 15, 2008 5:31 PM • 0 Comments
It's just after noon here in Exeter and I'm getting ready to head off to lunch. Yesterday's session on multi-level selection was very interesting with Rick Michod (U of Arizona) giving a particularly though provoking paper on the transition to...
Posted on July 27, 2007 7:27 AM • 0 Comments
Well I made it safely to England and the ISHPSSB meeting. Yesterday evening was spent in the pleasant company of Precious Little Snowflake and others. Good fun and good beer was had by all. Today the conference proper starts and...
Posted on July 26, 2007 5:22 AM • 2 Comments
This afternoon there was a symposium on "Science Literacy and Pseudoscience" that I had intended to attend but eventually missed. According to this AP story, it was revealed there that "People in the U.S. know more about basic science today...
Posted on February 17, 2007 8:16 PM • 4 Comments
The problem with the AAAS meeting is that so much is going on that it can be difficult to actually decide what to do. And much of what is good involves stuff happening outside of the sessions. I have run...
Posted on February 17, 2007 4:48 PM • 2 Comments
Things are very busy here at the AAAS Annual Meeting, so much so that I haven't had a chance to sit at a computer and write anything. Hopefully, if I get some time together tomorrow, I'll blog on a session...
Posted on February 16, 2007 9:17 PM • 1 Comments
This morning I'm heading off to the Science Fest To Beat All Science Fests - a.k.a. the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco. There I hope to at least hook up with Tara, Janet...
Posted on February 15, 2007 1:32 AM • 1 Comments
Apologies for being MIA over the past day - the hotel's wifi was acting up and I basically decided to go a day without connectivity. I'm now happily at home after thoroughly enjoying my SICB experience - science, beer,...
Posted on January 7, 2007 1:47 PM • 5 Comments
We had out meetup this evening and it was fun. A special shout-out has to go to Bruce Thompson for driving 90 minutes to get here (and thus 90 minutes back) and regaling us with stories of flying fast and...
Posted on January 6, 2007 12:39 AM • 3 Comments
One of the thinks that surprised me when I first started attending history of science conferences was how many (virtually all) presenters just stand up and read a paper. No visuals. Nothing. Sort of boring. I used to therefore think...
Posted on January 5, 2007 1:36 PM • 4 Comments
After an early night, I awoke to an unusually dark and cloudy (and cold .. .only 50 degrees) Phoenix. I blame the out-of-towners for ruining our perfectly good weather! This morning it's a toss-up between Key Transitions in Evolution and...
Posted on January 5, 2007 10:29 AM • 2 Comments
So overall I think the workshop on blogging went well. Turnout was, apparently, as expected and we answered questions for just under two hours. All in all, a good experience. Tomorrow we have the meetup in the evening and, eh...
Posted on January 5, 2007 12:53 AM • 0 Comments
SICB (pronounced 'sick-bee') is certainly a smorgasbord of science and it is somewhat difficult to decide which sessions and/or talks to attend. I had originally intended spending the day with the Linking Genes with Morphology in Vertebrates symposium, but a...
Posted on January 4, 2007 4:45 PM • 1 Comments
Apparently people were picking on me for not turning up on time. A slacker, they called me. Bah, humbug - I was only spending time with my family. That aside, I spent the evening with Grrl and PZ catching up,...
Posted on January 4, 2007 12:46 AM • 0 Comments
As PZ announced earlier today (as did GrrlScientist), we've firmed up our meetup plans for the SICB conference. Friday 6th around 6pm, we'll be meeting at Seamus McCaffreys fairly close to the conference hotel. Contrary to PZ's suggestion, I wont...
Posted on January 2, 2007 5:14 PM • 3 Comments
I've noted before that the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) will be meeting in Phoenix next week and also that PZ, Grrl Scientist, and I will be participating in a media workshop on blogging. We've decided that this...
Posted on December 29, 2006 3:18 PM • 2 Comments
