ScienceOnline 2015

Science Online was an amazing annual unconference that started a few years back and grew and became part of the reshaping of public communication about science. This year, the people running the conference started out with the plan to move the conference to a new venue, Atlanta, and last week abruptly announced that the conference would not happen and the ScienceOnline organization would be shut down. Those who paid the registration fee would be refunded. A few science writers and bloggers are writing about how great ScienceOnline was and how much it will be missed, and some are providing a…