Following ScienceOnline2011 from afar
ScienceOnline is an annual meeting focused on science communication held in North Carolina, USA, over January 13-16.* The gathering includes many well-known science bloggers and writers, as well as students and scientists.
I’d love to be there but like most of my readers I have to make do with watching events from afar. Fortunately, there is plenty to follow on-line.
One word before I list ways that readers might follow the event: I will update this post as new ways come to light. (See also the comments after this post.) If last year’s event is anything to go by, this is likely to include addition of sources that I become aware of at short notice during the meeting. If readers know of other sources, do let me know and I’ll add them.
Video streaming
http://scienceonline2011.com/watch/
If you check the wiki meeting programme page (see below), you’ll see that sessions from rooms ‘B’ and ‘C’ will officially be streamed.**
The twitter hashtag for the meeting is #scio11. (There is already an enormous number of tweets with the #scio11 hashtag.) If you need to contact them their official twitter account is @scio11.
Science 3.0 are offering aggregates of tweets and pictures here:
http://www.science3point0.com/scio11/
Blogging
Science 3.0 will be offering blogs as the meeting progresses in the updates section of the scio11 page:
http://www.science3point0.com/scio11/updates-from-the-conference/
Wiki
The meeting wiki has links to everything, in particular the programme:
http://scio11.wikispaces.com/Program
Footnotes
* Don’t forget to factor in that they’re in the USA!
** Speaking only for my own interests, if I had one more room (as opposed to talks) to be streamed, I’d make it room ‘D’.
A random selection from (far too many!) science communication articles on Code for life:
Desk Guide for Covering Science, and academic conferences
How long does it take you to write a science blog post?
NASA: science shouldn’t be debated in media and blogs?!
Know the history of your field, be it science or pottery
Media thought: Ask what is known, not the expert’s opinion
To link or not to link: mainstream media and no links at all
Media now only report on public ignorance
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Those interested in using twitter to follow the event, but new(ish) to twitter options, might find the tips on this page well worth mulling over:
http://brodiesnotes.blogspot.com/2010/01/following-conference-hashtag-tweets-in.html
(Last time I pull full URLs in-line in a post; some of that justification looks plain ugly. I’d edit it in a bit.)
I’ll try find time to add a proper explanation, but in the meantime: it’s been suggested that you can use google realtime search to follow tweets. (H/T: @JoBrodie)
SciencePond already has a stream of the #scio11 tweets:
http://sciencepond.com/search/%23scio11
If you can manage to keep up with them… 🙂
The keynote speech is now on, apparently. Twitter for #scio11 has gone relatively quiet (unusual!). I can’t seem to locate a live video so I’m guessing it’s not being streamed. Will update if I get more news.
(Perhaps this talk is outside of the meeting proper? I haven’t time to check the schedule, etc…!)
@edyong209 is giving a few tweets on the talk that are useful to follow.
@docfreeride, too (past experience is her talk tweeting is good to follow!)
Or you could just wade through all that’s coming out of #scio…
If you’re quick:
David Kroll & Misha (?) hamming it up on the stage:
http://www.justin.tv/cephalopodcast#/w/757953152
There’s also a paper.li “newspaper”, “The scio11 daily”: http://paper.li/tag/scio11
OK everyone, if I’m right ScienceOnline 2001’s live feed ought to be started in less than two hours.* Start up those browsers. (Assuming any of you “down†my way are still awake by then… I’m almost certainly not going to be!)
* 7am Sat. there; 1am Sun. here.
Live video streaming page (see link in article) is now active. Have fun.
By the sounds of it @docfreeride will be covering it in tweets – looking forward to that.
Check in #scio11 for others tweeting other sessions.
(Ironically I’m going to have to call it quits and pick this up tomorrow. I’m getting that cognitive impairment called sleepiness.)
Should say @docfreeride is covering science blog aggregator session, which isn’t be live-streamed on video (AFAIK)
Looks like @edyong209 (+ others) is covering “Blog as a Book-Writing Tool” session.
[…] When you get a bunch of people who can write well, stick ’em together in a room discussing topics, the quips that emerge from twitter can be condensed 140-character-or-less gems. (How to follow ScienceOnline2011 from a distance is in an earlier post.) […]
Those wanting to view the opening addresses and keynote presentation, Bora has now put them up on his blog:
http://blog.coturnix.org/2011/01/20/scienceonline2011-videos-from-thursday-night-opening-and-keynote/
If you’re looking for videos of the sessions, or interviews with people attending, search YouTube for ‘scio11’.
About 30 videos are up so far; more will be added in time.
This just in:
mistersugar Anton Zuiker
(forwarded by BoraZ)
#scio11 session videos update: expecting to start posting early next week to http://youtube.com/user/scienceonlinenow
According to Bora Z., the first “official” videos from the meeting are now on-line, with more to come soon, at http://vimeo.com/channels/168365#19580921