SO'10
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 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, 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 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…
clock | January 4, 2010
If you have been following sciency blogosphere, or my blog, or tweets about #scio10, or checked out the Program of the conference, you may have noticed that I have predicted that the "overarching theme" of the meeting will shift from last-year's focus on Power to this year's, hopefully, emphasis on Trust. Several sessions will, directly or indirectly, address the question of trust - who trusts whom, how and why.
With no non-verbal clues available online (apart from an occasional smiley-face), one has to convey not just meaning, but also intent and mood, using only language. And intent and…
clock | January 2, 2010
The year that just ended, 2009, was a year that saw huge changes in the world of media and the world of journalism. Science journalism has also been greatly affected, with many media outlets firing their science journalists first, then firing all the others afterwards. Much virtual ink has been spilled on the topics of "death of newspapers" and "bloggers vs. journalists is over" and "future of journalism", etc.
If you checked out everyone who's registered for the ScienceOnline2010 conference, or followed my posts introducing everyone, you have probably noticed that this, fourth meeting is…
clock | December 29, 2009
And today, to finish with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 11:30am - 12:35pm:
A. Medical journalism - Walter Jessen and Karl Leif Bates
Description: It could be argued that healthcare already has a "killer app" - search. According to research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61% of us look online for medical information. In an age of horizontal information distribution and social networks, what sort of medical information, disinformation and misinformation does one find? How do we fight publishers of medical…
clock | December 28, 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 Cameron Neylon from the Science in the open 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 background is in protein chemistry and biochemistry. Broadly speaking what I do is take…
clock | December 28, 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.
Anne-Marie Hodge is a Biology graduate student at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. She blogs on Endless Forms and Pondering Pikaia and is on Twitter. I interviewed Anne-Marie last year.
Nancy Shute is a science and medical writer and the blogger for US News & World Report. She is currently the vice president of the National Association of Science…
clock | December 23, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 10:15 - 11:20am:
A. Article-level metrics - Peter Binfield
Description: In an attempt to measure the article, as opposed to the journal it is published in, PLoS has recently implemented a suite of article-level metrics on all PLoS Articles. These metrics include online usage, citations, social bookmarks, comments, notes, ratings, and blog coverage. This presentation will go into the motivation for this program; provide information on how it has been implemented; and cover…
clock | December 22, 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.
Cameron Neylon is a Senior Scientist at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxford with a joint appointment as a Lecturer in Chemical Biology at the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton. He blogs on Science in the open and tweets. At the conference Cameron will do a demo of Google Wave for scientists who are complete…
clock | December 21, 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.
Tom Levenson is the Director of the Graduate Program in the Writing and Humanistic Studies program at MIT. He blogs on the Inverse Square blog and tweets. I interviewed Tom last year. At the conference, Tom will co-moderate the session From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing.
Val Jones, MD is the President and CEO of…
clock | December 19, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 9:00-10:05am:
A. Earth Science, Web 2.0+, and Geospatial Applications - Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan
Description: We will discuss online and mobile applications for earth science research, including solid earth, ocean, and atmosphere subtopics. Current topics planned for discussion are Google Earth for geospatial applications, iPhone and other mobile applications, collaboration tools such as Google Wave, and cloud computing platforms such as Amazon's EC2 for…
clock | December 18, 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.
Walter Jessen is a cancer biologist and bioinformatician. He is the editor at Highlight HEALTH and Next Generation Science. And he tweets. At the conference, Walter will lead the session on Medicine 2.0 and Science 2.0--where do they intersect? and the session on Medical journalism.
Sabine Vollmer, former science reporter for Raleigh News and Observer, now writes and…
clock | December 17, 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.
Cynthia Allen is the Editor and Writer in the Office of Science Education at National Institutes of Health where she blogs on their SciEd blog. She is also on Twitter.
Laurel Bacque is in charge of communications, a blogger, and the online community manager for the IceCube - the South Pole neutrino-hunting telescope. And she is on Twitter.
Craig McClain is the…
clock | December 16, 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.
Rick MacPherson is the Director of Conservation Programs at Coral Reef Alliance, and a blogger. I interviewed Rick last year. At this conference, Rick will co-moderate the session on Broader Impact Done Right.
Pamela Blizzard is the Executive Director of the Contemporary Science Center, this year's institutional partner of the conference. She is also on Twitter.
Eric…
clock | December 16, 2009The winners of the NESCent blogging competition were announced yesterday.
What do the winners get? A travel grant to come to ScienceOnline2010 in January! Yes, we kept those two spots open for the winners.
And the winners are Christie Lynn Wilcox (for the post When Good Genes Go Bad) and Jeremy Yoder (for the post How it does a body good: The selective advantage of drinking milk depends where you drink it).
w00t!
Congratulations to the winners....and see you both in January!
clock | December 15, 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.
Jean-Claude Bradley is a professor of Chemistry at Drexel University. He runs the Open Notebook Science wiki for his lab, blogs on Useful Chemistry and tweets. He is one of two people who will not just attend for the fourth time, but also present for the fourth time. At the next conference, Jean-Claude will give an Ignite-style talk "Games in Open Science Education…
clock | December 14, 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.
Scott Baker is the Fisheries Specialist at North Carolina Sea Grant. If you are a reader of my blog, you may remember I blogged about his use of texting and twitter to collect data from fishermen about fish-catch. At the conference, Scott will co-moderate the session on Citizen Science and do a demo of Text message based angler reporting method: twitter and fishcatch…
clock | December 12, 2009Last year, at ScienceOnline09, it appears that the overarching theme of the meeting emerged, and it was Power, in various meanings of the word.
This year, looking at the titles and descriptions of the sessions on the Program, the keyword of the meeting will be Trust. Again, in various meanings of that word: how do you know who to trust (e.g., journalists, scientists and press officers), and how do you behave online in order to be trusted. The debate over recent hacking of e-mails concerning climate change also hinges on the trust and how language affects the perception of who is trustworthy.…