Roll up, roll up – the ScienceOnline2013 programme is out
Come and get it folks!
The ScienceOnline2013 programme is out. Browse it, pick sessions and line yourself up for registration, which kicks off Monday 17th September. Be warned that registration is, apparently, like fashionistas queuing the door of their fav store for the sale to open. A truly mad register-dot-on-the-hour thing. Those from outside the USA in particular should note carefully the registration times. Registration is $US200, $US100 for students.
This unconference features on-line science in all it’s forms and draws in a broad range of people interested in science communication from high school students to old-hand science writers who have dozens (hundreds?) of articles or several books to their name. Both science communication professionals and scientists with an interest in science communication are present.
As you’d imagine it’s well networked. You can follow them on Twitter, @scio13 or use the #scio13 hashtag, Facebook, FriendFeed or Google+.[1] Enough? Even more is in links at the end of Bora’s unconference article – recommend reading if you’re interested in the meeting, as it backgrounds the event.
You’ll be able to see who has registered and chat on-line. In fact the on-line chatter continues on well after the event, more-or-less throughout the year until the next round… Community-building is a large part of the aim, of course.
If you can’t make it, you can follow the action on-line – as I’ve done for several years now!
I’ve been invited to co-moderate the session on non-academic careers,[2] so maybe I’ll make there in person this time?![3]
I’ve placed a condensed version of the program in an appendix, below.
Footnotes
1. For whatever it’s worth, I prefer twitter (for all it’s limitations).
2. Here’s some (not all!) of my posts on this topic:
Science PhD career preferences surveyed
Career paths, redux — the academic research career is the exception
On alternatives to academic careers and ’letting go’
’Other’ career paths — #IamScience
Universities and (lack of) showcasing use of science degrees
Advice for students heading to university
Career pathways for NZ science Ph.D. students
3. Just for the record my suggestion, a session on Editing and Editors, didn’t make the cut. I’m one of the those people who look for what’s not said. I can’t but help note a lot is said about science and writing, but little about editing and editors.
Appendix
The conference programme in precis – for descriptions of the sessions and the questions they aim to address, see the full programme. (It’s long!)
Hands-on teaching Pre-Conference Workshops:
Sketchnoting/Scribing – Perrin Ireland
Draw your own Science Comics – Katie McKissick and Maki Naro
Monitoring and analyzing one’s effectiveness on social media – Lou Woodley and Laura Wheeler
Special effects and visualization – Henry Reich and Kalliopi Monoyios
Designing Effective Visualizations with R – William Gunn and Carl Boettiger
Stop Talking, Start Making: Rapid Media Prototyping – John Pavlus and Rose Eveleth
Maps for journalists, writers, and scientists – Tim De Chant and Andrew Hill
A dozen (or two) of 15-minute superfast Blitz talks will be offered.
The Thursday, Friday and Saturday main conference days have 70 unconference-style sessions, including:
Scientific Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Communicate Science
Moderators: David Manly and Jeanne Garbarino
The Impact of Electronic and Open Notebooks on Science
Moderators: Kristin Briney, Anthony Salvagno
Tackling science denialism with a systematic game plan
Moderators: Emily Willingham and David Wescott
The Game Changer: Games for Science Engagement and Education
Moderators: Erik Martin and Cameron Pittman
Thinking Beyond Text
Moderators: Ben Lillie, Rose Eveleth
Changing The Public Face of Science
Moderators: Allie Wilkinson and Katie Pratt
Science online and rethinking peer review
Moderators: Ashutosh Jogalekar and Jarrett Byrnes
Mixing Science with Politics: The Promise and the Peril
Moderators: Eric Michael Johnson and Mo Costandi
Science Ebooks: Building the Community
Moderators: John Timmer, Carl Zimmer
Dialogue or fight? (Un)moderated science communication online.
Name: Emily Willingham and Janet Stemwedel
Broadening the Participation of Diverse Populations in Online Science
Moderators: Alberto Roca and Danielle Lee
How much “I” is “TMI”?
Moderators: Jacquelyn Gill and Hillary Rosner
Leading scientists towards openness
Moderators: Antony J Williams and Sean Ekins
Spies, Spacemen, Seamstresses, and Sailors: What Science Writers Can Learn From Genre Writing
Moderators: Maryn McKenna and David Dobbs
Narrative: What is it? How science writers use it?
Moderators: T. Delene Beeland and David Dobbs
How can the science of science education inform communication about science?
Moderators: Sandra Porter and Andrea Novicki
Accessibility for All Audiences
Moderators: Michael Lombardi and Lyndell Bade
#Hashtags in the Academy: Engaging Students with Social Media
Moderators: Lali DeRosier and Stephanie Willen Brown
Writing About Science for Kids (and Former Kids)
Moderators: Liz Heinecke and Elizabeth Preston
Using altmetrics to tell the full story of your research impact
Moderators: Jason Priem and Elizabeth Iorns
The Art, Craft and Business of Freelancing: Best Practices and Worst Problems of Your First Day, Month and Year
Moderators: Maggie Koerth-Baker and Charles Choi
Explanatory journalism, &%$£ yeah!
Moderators: Mark Henderson and Ed Yong
Impressions Matter: Embracing art & design in research and science communication
Moderators: Holly Bik and Liz Neeley
What Happens When People Start Taking Your Online Ramblings Seriously
Moderators: Miriam Goldstein and Holly Bik
Everything old is new again: using stories from the past to enlighten current events in science
Moderators: Greg Gbur (“Dr. SkySkull”) and Tom Levenson
Opening Doors: Science Communication for Those that Don’t Care/Don’t Like Science
Moderators: Tom Levenson and David Ng
Using Science Fiction to Make Scientific Ideas Accessible
Moderators: Annalee Newitz and Jennifer Ouellette
We are who we are? Who are we? Issues of identity and the internet.
Moderators: Kate Clancy and Scicurious
Blogging in Grad School: Pros, Cons, and Potential
Moderators: Jason Goldman and Katie Pratt
Lightwaves and Brainbows: Seductive Visual Metaphors at the Intersection of Science, Language and Art
Moderators: Cedar Riener and Michele Banks
Distilling Ideas: Communicating Science with Comics
Moderators: Maki Naro and Katie McKissick
Why should scientists ‘do’ outreach? (part I)
Moderators: Miriam Goldstein and Matt Shipman
Title: Helping Scientists ‘Do’ Outreach (part II)
Moderators: Karen James and Meghan Groome
Science and medical blogging at institutions: How to avoid being that kind of corporate blog
Moderators: Henry Scowcroft and Rachel Ewing
Communicating Science Where There is No Science Communication
Moderators: Marie-Claire Shanahan and Colin Schultz
Formal Science Education, Informal Science Education and Science Writing
Moderators: Marie-Claire Shanahan and Emily Finke
24/7 Health: The role of mobile technology in healthcare
Moderators: Pascale Lane and Peter Lipson
Animating Science
Moderators: Rose Eveleth and Mindy Weisberger
Inject some STEAM below the STEM – get in at the roots!
Moderators: Emily Coren and Glendon Mellow
“They said what?!”: Fighting bullshit in the scicomm ecosystem
Moderators: Brian Switek and Carl Zimmer
Working Towards Better Press Releases: What Do Writers Want?
Moderators: Nadia Drake and Peter Edmonds
Chemophobia & Chemistry in The Modern World
Moderators: DrRubidium and Carmen Drahl
How do you actually get a book written?
Moderators: Katherine Sharpe and Maria Konnikova
Outreach in Unusual Places
Moderators: Bug Girl and Emily Finke
Into the Unknown: What we don’t know, and how to talk about it
Moderators: Maggie Koerth-Baker and Maryn McKenna
Why Won’t the Science Deficit Model Die?
Moderators: Liz Neeley and John Bruno
Science Art as Science Outreach
Moderators: Maria Walters and Katy Chalmers
Never Tell Me the Odds! (Part Deux, Asteroid Field Edition)
Moderators: Cedar Riener and Matthew Francis
What’s News in Citizen Science? Perspectives, People, Projects, and Platforms (part I)
Moderators: Darlene Cavalier and Caren Cooper
Citizen Scientists and Ethical Research (part II)
Moderators: Kelly Hills and Dr. Judy Stone
Sticking with it for the long haul: Building community and maintaining long-term engagement in citizen science (part III)
Moderators: Holly Menninger and Caren Cooper
Open access or vanity press?
Moderators: Zen Faulkes and Chris Gunter
Hands-on math
Moderators: Matthew Francis and Evelyn Lamb
Science Blogs Are One Hard Drive Crash From Oblivion: Or, How do we go About Preserving Science Blogs?
Moderators: Trevor Owens and Brian Russell
Blogging for the long haul
Moderators: Scicurious and Zen Faulkes
Covering cancer causes, prevention and screening
Moderators: Jeff Niederdeppe and Hilda Bastian
Alternative Careers ARE the Mainstream! Taking Your Degree to a New Level
Moderators: Kevin Zelnio and Grant Jacobs
Persuading the unpersuadable: Communicating science to deniers, cynics, and trolls.
Moderators: Cara Santa Maria and Melanie Tannenbaum
The World’s Largest Explainer
Moderators: Blake Stacey and Khadijah Britton
How to make sure you’re being appropriately skeptical when covering scientific and medical studies
Moderators: Ivan Oransky and Tara Smith
Telling Visual Stories with Data: A Guided Tour of Data Visualization
Moderators: Lena Groeger and Peter Aldhous
Did Anybody Look At This !*%&#%@* Press Release?
Moderators: Karl Leif Bates and Charles Choi
Public Statistics
Moderators: Mark Chu-Carroll and John Allen Paulos
Summing it Up: The Data on the Cutting Room Floor
Moderators: Yana Eglit and Mindy Weisberger
Citation Data and Altmetrics for Historians and Social Scientists
Moderators: Heather Piwowar and Eric Michael Johnson
Life in the Venn — What Happens When You’re Forced to Wear Many Hats?
Moderators: Mireya Mayor and Ed Yong
(Far too many) other articles on Code for life (and did anyone read this far?!):
More science communication goodies in the wake of ScienceOnline2012
Banished from science writing. Words, that is.
When the abstract or conclusions aren’t accurate or enough
Three kinds of knowledge about science journalism
Of use of the active voice by scientists
Media thought: Ask what is known, not the expert’s opinion
31 Responses to “Roll up, roll up – the ScienceOnline2013 programme is out”
Thanks for posting about the conference! Can you update the first link? That’s the old website. Info should be found here: http://scienceonline.com/scienceonline2013/ Thanks!!
Do you mean that the scienceonline.org website is depreciated and that the scienceonline.com site is preferred?
Anyway, I’ll update it!
Done.
Advice via twitter for those hoping to register:
“Tip for #scio13 Registration: Payment is thru PayPal. May be faster if you have account set up beforehand. Or pay as guest w CC w PayPal”
(I have to admit I’m not quite sure what the last sentence means! H/T Karyn Traphagen.)
Sorry if that was not clear! 140 characters is sometimes not enough. PayPal has an option for people to pay without having a PayPal account. A vendor (in this case, ScienceOnline), would rediredt a purchaser to PayPal with a specific amount to pay. Once on the PayPal page, with the purchase details showing, you can either login to your existing paypal account to pay OR set up a new PayPal account to pay OR pay as a “Guest” where you don’t register, but you pay with a credit card and PayPal handles the transaction for us.
Karyn
Ah! There I was thinking that ‘CC’ (credit card) was ‘cc:’ (carbon copy), as in email. No wonder it made no sense to me…
Thanks for the clarification.
You’re right that 140 characters is sometimes not enough, although I am sometimes impressed with what some people can cram into that space. (Perhaps they’re writers who’ve suffered years of editors sending their copy back saying “make it shorter”?!)
I have finally found my tribe (Ken Robinson).
This is me: . http://sustainabilityandbeauty.wordpress.com/
Scienceblogs is one I check every day. Thanks for the community.
Remember how I was saying registering is like a fashionista frenzy… this tweeted by Ed Yong, who has been to plenty of ScienceOnline events (he’s co-moderating the last session of the 2013 too):
Remember, 1st batch sold out in 45s last yr RT @kTraphagen: Times for #scio13 registration are: Mon 9 am, Thur 2pm & Friday 11pm (all EDT)
You read right: 45 seconds.
Tip from Karyn Traphagen (via twitter):
“Tip for #scio13 registration: Have answer for “What’s the most pressing question you want to have discussed at ScienceOnline2013?””
(I’d check the programme while you’re at that; there’s a ‘condensed’ version in the appendix above.)
Also (also from Karyn):
“Tip for #scio13 registration: Have a 300 x 300 px image ready to upload for your namebadge.”
(This is, apparently, part of a later step after you’ve paid and have secured your spot.)
Oh, dear. There’s also a twitter pool for guessing how many seconds the first 100 places will take to sell out. Ed Yong is shooting got 28 seconds, Maryn McKenna 35. Use the #scio13guess hashtag.
Me. Ahhhh……. hmm. Last year was 45 seconds, right? They claim to have a better registration system. Hmm. I’m going to sneak under Maryn for 34 seconds.
Another tip from Karyn:
“Tip for #scio13 registration: Bookmark this pg. Form will be LIVE at 9am EDT Mon http://bit.ly/Qj1zVQ ”
Tip for #scio registration (for the time zone challenged): Time zone converter so you don’t miscalculate 9am EDT http://bit.ly/vKJEz
Tip for #scio13 registration: we want a pic for your nametag like your Twitter avatar so ppl can match “real life” you w your online persona
Registered for #scio13? Here’s the conf hotel reservation link: http://cwp.marriott.com/rdumc/science/
Take a look at who’s coming (so far) to #scio13 (Moderators will be added later today) http://bit.ly/RXDXCp
A map to locate #scio13 community members (via Karyn via Twitter):
And growing! RT @ShipLives: Where can you find the #scio13 community? Check out this map: http://bit.ly/OCl798 Impressive, ain’t it?
FWIW I’m not on it yet, despite having used the hashtag.
Long-distance postcards in the #scio13 mail today: @DNLee5 from Tanzania & @rejectedbanana from Alaska! Send more! http://bit.ly/OCjtUK
(I haven’t sent one in… yet.)
It seems I am on the #scio13 map after all – hidden “underneath” the marker for Geneious. (Both of our locations differ from this marker – Geneious is in Auckland in the upper portion of the North Island, I am in Dunedin in the South-East area of the South Island. Aimee’s marker, by contrast, is accurately placed.)
There’s an update to registration that I suggest those still hoping to register read:
http://scienceonline.com/an-update-on-scienceonline2013-registration/
Note in particular,
Thursday registration: opens at 2 p.m. EDT, with 75 seats to fill, first come, first served.
Friday registration: opens at 11 p.m. EDT with 50 seats to fill, first come, first served.
Beginning Sat, Sept. 22 (or after the Fri window fills, whichever happens first): we will open a waitlist form, with names entered into a lottery for the remaining 25 registration slots. We will close the entries for the lottery on Friday, Sept 28, 5pm EDT, and will award the lottery seats on Saturday, Sept 29 at 5 p.m. EDT.
Then, the waitlist will remain open until January 15, 2013. As conference seats come open, we’ll offer those seats as we can (not exactly in order, but close, since it depends on when you tell us a cut-off date for learning of a seat might be).
The lottery gives you a place, not the cost!
More detailed information on the lottery for the final places! Give yourself a chance to grab a place without competing to access the registration server –
http://scienceonline.com/scienceonline2013/registration/scio13-registration-step-1/
From Karyn:
“Dear everyone. Pls do not email about #scio13 registration problems. I know! I am working on alternative for final seats”
(She earlier tweeted that she got, wait for it, over 2500 emails in the initial 30 hours of the meeting registration period. And you think your in-box is overflowing…)
For those who have registered, there is a questionnaire for you! –
http://scio13.wikispaces.com/Registration+Poll
There’s a further update on registration – just to keep you reading! –
http://scienceonline.com/an-update-on-scienceonline2013-registration/
From Karyn, via twitter:
Reminder: Starting tonite at 11pm EDT tonite, sign up for Lottery for registration spots at #scio13 (no rush, all week) http://bit.ly/Qj1zVQ
From Karyn – “In case this wasn’t obvious. You must register for #scio13 w same name & email that you use for lottery. No multiple personalities pls 🙂 ”
Karyn: final count for #scio13 lottery= 329. We’ll notify tomorrow. Random number generator will decide.
Updates, via twitter:
Karyn: Email notifications going out now from ScienceOnline for #scio13 lottery. Check your inbox if you signed up.
Bora: Important: traditionally, a number of people on waitlist get registered in the end. Make sure you sign up if you did not win #scio13 lottery
Karyn: Waitlist for ScienceOnline2013 #scio13 is now open: http://scienceonline.com/scienceonline2013/scienceonline2013-waitlist/
From Karyn Traphagen (@kTraphagen):
Folks, if you are on #scio13 waitlist PLEASE make sure you keep mail from XXXXX@scienceonline.com out of your Spam folder.
Even if you’re not attending the schedule is well worth checking out: http://scienceonline2013.sched.org/
Here’s a map showing where people attending ScienceOnline2013 are coming from, along with other facts (what people do, etc.):
http://kateprengaman.com/a-map-for-science-online/
[…] I was invited to attend to host the session, e.g. for the 2013 meeting I proposed a session on non-academic careers following on from encouraging readers to look at this […]