SO'10
clock | November 8, 2009
As you know, the Program is fully set now. There is a lot of stuff there! So, to help you out, I will post an occasional sample of sessions, organized by time - when they will occur during the conference.
So today, I'll start at the beginning, highlighting session that will happen on Saturday, January 16th, at 9:00-10:05am. Letters A-E denote rooms. You will notice that each session has its own page where you are welcome to post questions and commentary.
A. From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing - Tom Levenson, Brian Switek and Rebecca…
clock | November 7, 2009
Ignite-style talks are very, very energetic. They last 5 minutes each and the slideshow is set to automatically change slides every 15 seconds. Thus, one cannot be slow or go over time. These kinds of talks can be very funny, yet also very powerful. At ScienceOnline2010, we will have an Ignite session on Saturday night, at the Radisson Hotel during the banquet/dinner. Here is the lineup of speakers and topics:
"Why Triangle is Better than Silicon Valley" - Wayne Sutton
"My "Little Black Book" of Scientists I Love" - Joanne Manaster
"Crowdsourced Chemistry - Why Online Chemistry Data Needs…
clock | November 6, 2009
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.
Sol Lederman is the Consultant for US Dept of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a blogger. He also tweets for the Department. I interviewed Sol earlier this year, after his session at ScienceOnline'09. At the next conference, Sol will lead a workshop "Make your own social networking site with Drupal".
Chris Nicolini is…
clock | November 5, 2009
I'll be briefly on the Skeptically Speaking radio show tomorrow night at 8pm Eastern, introducing ScienceOnline2010. You can listen live here.
clock | November 5, 2009
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.
There are three parent-child pairs coming to the conference in January and all three have been here before:
John and Sam Dupuis are a father and son. John is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University and a SciBling, blogging at Confessions of a Science Librarian. I interviewed John last year after the 2008 conference. His son Sam…
clock | November 4, 2009As 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.
Dorothea Salo is an academic librarian in Wisconsin who blogs on The Book of Trogool. She tweets as well. At the conference, Dorothea will co-moderate the session "Scientists! What can your librarian do for you?" and teach a workshop "Repositories for Fun and Profit".
Peter Lipson is a physician in Michigan. He blogs on White Coat Underground and Science-Based…
clock | November 3, 2009As 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.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a good friend, a marine biologist and a former SciBling. She blogs at The Intersection, has co-authored "Unscientific America" and written the forthcoming "The Science of Kissing". After proclaiming she'd never do it, she succumbed to Twitter as well. At the conference, Sheril will co-moderate the session "Online Civility and Its (Muppethugging)…
clock | November 2, 2009As 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.
Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. He blogs at the eponimous blog and tweets.
At the conference, Trevor will do an Ignite-style talk "Data mining the literature with Zotero" and will participate in the session about "…
clock | October 30, 2009
Aaron Rowe is a PhD student in biochemistry at UCSB and a blogger for Wired Science. I interviewed Aaron last year, right after our second, 2008, meeting.
If you see soychemist on Twitter, that's him! At ScienceOnline2010, Aaron will do an Ignite-style inspirational talk "SARS, Drugs, and Biosensors".
Molly Keener, also a veteran of all the ScienceOnline conferences in the past, is the Reference Librarian in the Coy C. Carpenter Library at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and runs their news blog.
David Whitlock is familiar to the regular readers of this blog as well as many other…
clock | October 29, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Daniel Brown from the Biochemical Soul blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
My name is Daniel Brown, and I am a biologoholic.
I grew up as a rat-tail-sporting, barefoot…
clock | October 29, 2009
Today I'll mention a few of the people who are traveling from afar.
Fabiana Kubke is a professor of anatomy at University of Auckland (yes, birds brains! I hope we find some time to talk shop while she is here). Yes, that is Aucklans in New Zealand!
Dr.Kubke blogs on Building Blogs of Science which is also cross-posted on her SciBlogs blog.
At the conference, Fabiana will do a demo of The Science Media Centre and the SciBlogs - the first science blogging network in New Zealand (if I understand correctly, they even call each other SciBlings!).
You can also follow her on Twitter
Jelka…
clock | October 29, 2009
The Program is now finalized - the schedule of rooms and times can be found here. What an incredible line-up of moderators/presenters and intriguing topics!
And if you think that making the schedule was easy....it took a couple of hours of moving the index cards around until I got the Best Possible Schedule in place:
Sorry, a little blurry, I know - taken by iPhone. But yes, each Index card had the title of a session and names of moderators on it. And I used several different criteria to try to make the least conflicting schedule. I hope it works....
clock | October 28, 2009
Continuing with the series of posts introducing the participants - you can see the whole list here.
A couple of dozen SciBlings will be there, but here are five I picked for today:
Janet D. Stemwedel (aka Dr. Free-Ride) is a Philosopher and a Chemist. She is a Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University in California and she blogs on Adventures in Ethics and Science and can also be found on Twitter.
Janet is the veteran of our conferences - one of a handful to attend her fourth, and one of only two people who did something - a talk, presentation or session - every single year. I…
clock | October 27, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked my Scibling, Blake Stacey from the Science After Sunclipse blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? For example, what is your Real Life job?
Nominally, I do "complex systems modeling and analysis", but the projects I work on are…
clock | October 27, 2009
Registration is now closed - we are full!! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here. To sign up for the waitlist, please use this form.
So, let me continue introducing the participants, those lucky 225 who managed, in less than four days, to grab a spot on the roster.
Joanne Manaster teaches histology in the department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and mammalian cell culture techniques and the concepts of stem cells and tissue engineering in the Bioengineering Department at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
You can learn much more about Joanne, her…
clock | October 27, 2009
As of a few minutes ago, we are full! You can see the entire list of registrants if you go and click here.
As you may have noticed, we have stopped the form at 225. The remaining 25 slots will be filled by Miss Baker's students (and parent chaperones), the Big Speaker, a straggling moderator who is not registered yet, a couple of pseudonymous bloggers, and a few folks who sign up first for the waitlist.
To sign up for the waitlist, please use this form.
clock | October 26, 2009
Now that registration for ScienceOnline2010 is open I intend to, like I did in the past years, introduce the participants to my blog readers in a series of blog posts.
Of course, you can check out the entire list for yourself (already at 201 people!) but I will try to provide a little more information about everyone so, if you are attending, you may be on a special lookout for someone you really want to talk to or, if you are not attending, to see what you're missing so you can tune in virtually next January and make a firm promise to yourself that you will try to make it in person next time…
clock | October 26, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
Thank you, Bora
I am a lucky individual who was given a chance to exist, create and interact with other living beings on…
clock | October 26, 2009A couple of weeks ago, Chritsopher Perrien invited Anton Zuiker and me to Duke Radio for an hour-long interview about science and medical blogging, science communication and education, about the ScienceOnline2010 conference (and the three preceding meetings in the series) and even managed to insert a couple of more personal questions about us ....
You can now listen to the show - just click right here....
jdupuis | October 25, 2009Registration for Science Online 2010 is open. The conference web site is here and program info is here.
Time is running out. There are currently about 175 registered and the organizers are going to cap it at 250.
I've attended the conference for the past two years and it's a blast. I really enjoyed the sessions as well as the informal times between sessions, at the meals and in the bar.
I've registered already, as has my son, Sam, who's in grade 11. He attended last year and also had a great time. Bora even interviewed him!
There's been a good tradition of librarians attending the…