clock | January 10, 2010When you produce results you gain credibility. When you have credibility, you will have an easier time producing results.
- Brian Koslow
clock | January 10, 2010
ScienceOnline2010 is starting in three days! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.
First, see the complete list of attendees, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through these introductory posts. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....
Then, check out the Program to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before…
clock | January 10, 2010
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Anna Kushnir is a veteran of our conferences. She is the Senior Analyst at Gryphon Scientific and she blogs on Lab Life. I interviewed Anna a couple of years ago.
Erik Martin is the Community manager at reddit.com. He blogs on Megazoa and he tweets.
Anna Lena Phillips is the Assistant Book-Review Editor at the American Scientist and the Poetry Editor at the Fringe…
clock | January 10, 2010
A number of sessions at the Conference are looking at sociological aspects of the Web and science. I have already pointed, in quite a lot of detail, to the session on civility and politeness, as well as several other sessions that touch on the topics of language and trust. Let's look at several others that approach the social aspects of science online (and offline) from different angles:
Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM - D.N.Lee and Anne Jefferson
Description: We will introduce programs that attract wider audiences to science, math, and engineering at…
clock | January 9, 2010Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
- Brendan Francis
clock | January 9, 2010
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Michael Specter is a science journalist and writer for The New Yorker. His latest book is "Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives". He will be the Keynote Speaker on Friday evening and will participate at the conference on Saturday as well. Michael is on Twitter, too.
Dr.Isis will apparate from…
clock | January 9, 2010
Last year we had a session on Art And Science and a workshop How To Paint Your Own Blog Pictures. At this year's conference we have more sessions that explore the visual aspects of science. Click on links to see what discussions have already started on these pages and add your questions and thoughts:
Paint your blog images using a digital tablet led by Glendon Mellow
Description: Get a chance to test out a digital tablet, and see why it's like having an entire art supply store on your computer. Beginning with tutorials on Glendon's blog before the conference, we'll try using Gimp, ArtRage…
clock | January 8, 2010I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
- Brenda Ueland
clock | January 8, 2010Change of Shift - Volume Four, No. 14 is up on Emergiblog
I and the Bird #116 is up on Listening Earth Blog
Friday Ark #277 is up on Modulator
clock | January 8, 2010
It is getting really close! You can see everyone who's registered for the conference, and I need to do only a couple of more of these posts to introduce everyone.
David Shiffman is a graduate student at the College of Charleston in South Carolina studying shark conservation. He blogs on Southern Fried Science and tweets. At the conference, David will do an Ignite talk "The Online Community Environmental Action Network: How it can help you and your blog - WhySharksMatter".
Katie Lord is the Associate Publisher of American Scientist, the popular science magazine published by Sigma Xi.
Andre…
clock | January 8, 2010There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today (and there were 14 yesterday). As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Role of the Amygdala in Antidepressant Effects on Hippocampal Cell Proliferation and Survival and on Depression-like Behavior in the Rat:
The stimulation of adult hippocampal…
clock | January 7, 2010Sometimes if you're willing to give people of vision and passion the room to maneuver, you get incredibly lucky.
- Brandon Tartikoff
clock | January 7, 2010
We are in the final stretch - it is getting really exciting!
I'll introduce a few more registrants tomorrow (lucky waitlisters - there were a couple of cancellations this week), but today I'd like to remind you, if you are registered for the conference, to add your name (by editing the appropriate wiki page) to one of the Friday Tours.
Coffee Cupping at Counter Culture Coffee
It's cold in the morning, and nothing helps better than the smell of fresh, hot coffee. And learning some science of coffee: from how it is grown to how it gets to the final consumer. If you are interested in this tour…
clock | January 6, 2010True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
- Baltasar Gracian
clock | January 6, 2010
The conference is only a week away!!!!!
I have introduced the participants, and the Program over the past couple of months (there's a little bit more to come). Today, we'll go into the night....the dark side! There are three evenings during the meeting, thus three evening events for participants. Importantly, all three are also open to locals (or whoever is in town that day) who are not registered to attend the main program of the conference.
On Thursday night, for those early birds whose flights from far-away places bring them in on Thursday, as well as for the locals who are already here,…
clock | January 6, 2010There are 27 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Global versus Local Conservation Focus of U.S. State Agency Endangered Bird Species Lists:
The development of species priorities for conservation at local or regional scales (for example, within a state or…
clock | January 5, 2010Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.
- Bob Talbert
clock | January 5, 2010
If you are coming to ScienceOnline2010 and you have checked the amazing Program there, you have noticed that there will be a set of hands-on workshops on Friday morning.
If you will be attending (and even if you are not registered for the rest of the conference but will be in town on that day), you can sign up for workshops now - one 10am and one 11am worskhop. How do you sign up? By editing the Workshops page of the wiki - just add the number (up to 50 per session) and your name under the titles of workshops you want to participate in.
How do you choose which two workshops to attend?
If you…