Posts Tagged ‘ScienceOnline2010’
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Robin Ann Smith
Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:22 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Robin Ann Smith from NESCent to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Mark MacAllister
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:07 amContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Mark MacAllister, Coordinator of On-Line Learning Projects at the North Carolina Zoological Society to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Andrew Thaler
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 2:56 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Andrew Thaler from Southern Fried Science to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Andrea Novicki
Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:24 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Andrea Novicki from the Duke CIT blog to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Maria Droujkova
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 10:18 amContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See the interviews posted so far here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Maria Droujkova to answer a few questions:
Specter sights and sounds
Friday, February 5, 2010, 4:12 pmMichael Specter, The New Yorker’s science writer, has a book out, “Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives,” that triggered praise and criticism. Like other authors, Specter speaks about his book – to promote it and because he gets a speaker’s fee. He has given a talk at Google and he was the keynote speaker at ScienceOnline2010 in Research Triangle Park.
ScienceOnline, which drew nearly 300 scientists and science writers who blog from as far away as Australia, attracted a large contingency of science journalists this year because of the cutbacks in the U.S. newspaper industry. But Specter in his speech said he was optimistic about the future of science writing.
Science in the Triangle couldn’t let this statement stand without questioning the author. So here is the ad hoc interview with Specter at ScienceOnline 2010:
Thank them – they made ScienceOnline2010 possible
Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:05 amLast week’s ScienceOnline2010, our fourth annual science communication conference in North Carolina, was our biggest, best and most successful event yet, and from the long list of blog and media coverage and the Flickr pictures, YouTube videos and Twitter mentions of the conference (all using the tag #scio10), it certainly seems the BlogTogether spirit was coursing through the 267 participants.
Anton and I can’t be happier, or more proud, of what this conference achieved. More than anything, we are astounded by the openness with which so many people came together to share, explore, question, listen and narrate in order to reflect the importance of science in their lives and how the Web can be used to share their passions for science. See my post, Making it real: People and Books and Web and Science at ScienceOnline2010 (and please give us your feedback through this form).
Our gratitude goes to all who attended the conference and participated so energetically in the conversations there.
And special thanks goes to the following individuals and organizations that helped us grow and improve this conference. Please thank them for making ScienceOnline2010 possible — click through to their sites to learn more about each person or organization. (We thanked the sponsors of ScienceOnline’09 here, the second event here and the first event here.):
Making it real: People and Books and Web and Science at ScienceOnline2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:11 am
People
You cannot see the feedback that many participants at ScienceOnline2010 have already provided to Anton and me (keep them coming – we take the responses very seriously), but the recurring theme for the “highlight of the conference” question was “Meeting the People”; and the main request for the future is “provide more time for informal conversations”.
You will see even more of that kind of sentiment if you peruse the growing list of blog coverage. Or glean it from photographs posted on Flickr and Picasa here, here, here, here and here. Or on YouTube videos here and here.
While Early Bird Dinner, Friday Workshops, Coffee Cupping, Lab/Museum Tours, Friday gala, long lunch breaks, evenings at the hotel bar, and Saturday banquet were all good opportunities for mingling and schmoozing and networking, obviously people crave even more, and we will try to make sure to provide even more such opportunities next year. Your suggestions as to how to do this are welcome.
An exercise in fact-checking
Sunday, January 17, 2010, 5:46 pmFact checking is a drag. It’s tedious and it can get in the way of a really good story. But, of course, it’s crucial unless you write fiction. The ScienceOnline2010 session on fact checking Sunday, which was led by freelance science writers Rebecca Skloot, Sheril Kirshenbaum and David Dobbs, made that clear.
Blogs have a reputation for being loosey-goosey about accuracy. Who wants to spent time on checking facts when you want to be funny or profound, right? That gave me an idea for a quick experiment. Read more…
Collaboration Southern style
Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:21 pm@freesci: There are no sidewalks in RTP. How’s going collaboration here if you need to drive to meet other people? #scio10
The first thought that came to my mind after I read this Twitter post from ScienceOnline2010 was “This is the South. We don’t wander around outside socializing. We’re private and polite and our social events are productions. We stay inside, where we eat fried foods and drink sweat tea.”
My second thought was that those are, of course, crude generalizations. The Triangle is one of the fastest growing areas in the U.S., because people from all over the world move here. Southerners live next to Yankees (a term that is used by the local newspaper in page 1 headlines), Chinese, Indians, Europeans, Africans, you name it.
Still, public transportation, bike lanes and sidewalks aren’t on top of the priority list in large parts of the Triangle. So we have to come up with other ways to connect.
Since this area also has one of the highest concentrations of Ph.D.s in the U.S., science and technology come to the rescue. That makes this the perfect spot for ScienceOnline2010, doesn’t it? We’re tweeting, life-streaming, blogging, spending Linden dollars in Second Life.
My third thought was that after living here nearly 10 years I would still like to see more sidewalks.
