clock | January 22, 2008Brian Russell recorded some sessions at the Conference and is now putting them up on Blip.TV. Here is the first clip, the very beginning of the Conference on Saturday:
clock | January 22, 2008The Science Communication Consortium presents:
DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC)
A discussion of how science is communicated effectively - and ineffectively - through emerging media outlets, such as blogging, podcasts, online multimedia, and more.
Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people learn about scientific info, and shortened the shelf life of these stories. This immediacy of information…
clock | January 22, 2008Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog.
If you look at any individual post you will see that we added the "e-mail this page" and "Printer-friendly version" buttons on the bottom of each post.
We have also started allowing trackbacks on our posts. Just like comments, trackbacks will be moderated due to large amounts of spam that are still attacking our system. We check the approval cue for comments and trackbacks on the blog regularly, so yours will show up after a short lag (and if it does not, give me a heads-up by e-mail).
Now look at the right side-bar, where we have made…
clock | January 21, 2008There is something about being on scienceblogs.com that is different - and bigger - than just being a science blogger on a prominent platform. Something that others are still trying to figure out and emulate. And that is the friendship that we have all developed between us. We are like a big family - we call each other SciBlings, after all. Whenever we travel, we try to meet. Although we are spread all around the USA, as well as Canada, Australia, the U.K., and Sweden, we have been quite successful at meeting each other in Real Life.
The Science Blogging Conference was a great excuse for…
clock | January 21, 2008During the Student blogging panel--from K to Ph D at the Conference (actually, the session I enjoyed the best of all - and that is not easy as all the sessions were fantastic), a point came up about the way universities are slowly changing their attitudes toward students blogging. Actually, one of the panelists, Sarah Wallace, is a direct beneficiary of a recent 180-degrees turn by Duke University. Instead of looking askance at student blogging, Duke is now actively encouraging students to write blogs about their research, providing them with the platform and tech support and faculty…
clock | January 21, 2008Sleeping & Dreaming exhibit hosted by Wellcome Trust will be open until 9 March 2008:
Why are scientists still perplexed by sleep? What do the insights that our dreams bring us mean? And is a life without sleep conceivable? Sleeping and dreaming is a nightly (or daily) occurrence for us all, yet we still know relatively little about this elusive phenomenon.
If you are in London between now and early March, try to go and see it (and let me know how it was - perhaps blog about it and send me the link).
clock | January 21, 2008UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Workshop - February 4th 2008:
Few people would argue that good communication is the lifeblood of good science - and the Web is opening up a whole new world of possibilities.
UK PubMed Central is ideally placed to make the best use of new Web technologies and new ideas in semantics and text mining and so to facilitate sharing of the biomedical and health research literature.
We are entering the next stage of developing UKPMC into an innovative and useful resource for UK researchers. We want to ensure that your needs and ideas are heard and incorporated at the outset…
clock | January 21, 2008Through blog posts, via e-mail, and via our feedback form (have you filled it yet?) we are already getting tons of feedback on the way Conference ran, what was good about it, what not so much, and what can be done differently next time. We are carefully reading all of it and will certainly address all of your feedback as we start organizing the 3rd meeting (give us a week or so to rest, will ya, please?!).
One of the things that we get a lot is feedback from the people who were not able to attend in physical space and were very happy we made it possible to participate from the distance (see…
clock | January 21, 2008During the Science Blogging Ethics session at the Conference, there was a discussion of a possible Science-bloggers code of ethics, or at least a community-built set of guidelines for best practices and responsible conduct on science blogs. It was suggested that the best way to make such a set of guidelines would be on a wiki. So, Janet has built the Science Blogging Ethics Wiki and you should all help build it over time.
clock | January 21, 2008Conference was a blast. Did not spend much time at home, though, so it is nice to be back today. Dog was happy to see me:
clock | January 21, 2008A paper published back in September - Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit by Hockings et al. is getting renewed attention these days.
Rebecca Walton has compiled links to the recent media and blog coverage of the paper (including those by my SciBlings Afarensis, Greg Laden and Brian Switek), the peer-reviewer's comments have been added to the paper, and The Animal Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany has posted a series of comment as part of a Journal Club on this paper.
Now, all you need to do is join in the conversation - log…
clock | January 20, 2008Well, just below, I posted all of my pictures from the Conference. If you have some of your own, please upload them to the Facebook group and on Flickr. Tag the Flickr photos with the "scienceblogging.com" tag and then look around all the pictures and identify the people, tag them (on Facebook) or give their names (URLs as well) in the comments.
As I am exhausted and this takes some time to do, you are welcome to ID the people in my pictures in the comments on my posts as well...
clock | January 20, 2008On Sunday morning, about 18-19 of the Conference participants met at the New World Coffee House for breakfast, where we were joined by Rep.Brad Miller (D-NC). Pictures under the fold....
clock | January 20, 2008And here is the last set from the Friday dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):
clock | January 20, 2008And, under the fold, you will see even more pictures from the Friday night dinner (isn't my wife a great photographer?):
clock | January 20, 2008Even more pictures from the Friday dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):