Category Archives: SBC-NC’08

As you probably noticed, there was a flurry of activity on SciAm blogs these past few days, mostly covering the Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the related topic of nuclear power. For example, you could read, on Observations blog,
The spread of the tsunami from Japan across the Pacific by Phil Yam,
A “sixth sense” for earthquake prediction? Give me a break! by me, and Japan’s nuclear crisis and tsunami recovery via Twitter and other Web resources by Phil Yam. David Horgan on the Cross-Check blog had two posts – Japan earthquake demonstrates the limits—and power—of science and Averting a “Japan syndrome”: Reactor expert says Japan’s woes shouldn’t stop a nuclear renaissance. Jesse Bering looks at that from another angle: Signs, signs, everywhere signs: Seeing God in tsunamis and everyday events. And the Guest Blog covered several different angles: Nature: Earthquake dispatches from the correspondent in Japan [Updated] uploaded by me, The essential lesson from the Japan earthquake for the U.S. by Richard Allen, Beware the fear of nuclear….FEAR! by David Ropeik, Failure of imagination can be deadly: Fukushima is a warning by Rita J. King, Japan earthquake: The explainer by Chris Rowan, and The worst nuclear plant accident in history: Live from Chernobyl by Charles Choi.

There will be more on this topic later, but we are also going back to our ‘regular coverage’. Mary Karmelek on the ‘Anecdotes from the Archive’ blog has two new posts, Let the sun shine in…all day long and Frog briefly gets a leg up on entertainment industry.

And on the Guest Blog, David Manly offers Mirror Images: Twins and identity.

More to come soon on the Guest Blog, as well as a new expedition reporting from the field to out Explorations blog. Stay tuned…

Of course! Anton and I met earlier today and started planning the third Science Blogging Conference. We analyzed the responses we got so far from you, in person, by e-mail, on your blogs, on the interviews and via the feedback form (if you have not done it yet, please give us your feedback here, it’s not too late) and made the first steps to make the next meeting even better.
So, watch this space! There will be news revealed, one item at a time, over the next few days and weeks. First, in a couple of days, we will announce the date and the venue for the third meeting. The other news about it (and about the Anthology) – later, be patient.

On top of screencasts, podcasts and PPT files that are already available, you can now also read the full transcript of the session on Public Scientific Data from the Science Blogging Conference. And much more here….

The second annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference, held January 18 and 19, 2008, was an unqualified success. Find a comprehensive listing of links to the many blog entries and video clips posted before, during and after the conference to learn about the conversations and networking at the conference.
Like our inaugural event, this second conference was a collective activity — many, many organizations, companies and individuals pitched in, in ways large and small, to keep this conference free, attendees fed and the discussion lively.

Please join us in thanking them. (We thanked the sponsors of the first event here.)

Leaders
As I stated several times before, the Conference would never have happened without the vision, know-how and persistance of my friend Anton Zuiker. Brian Russell was behind the scenes all year, providing us important support and technical advice. Wayne Sutton, newly appointed to his job as online community organizer for NBC-17, crisscrossed the Triangle, all the while trying out every new online networking tool that came to his attention. Wayne and Brian streamed or recorded many of the conference sessions, broadening the audience of the conference. Tola Oguntoyinbo set up the Conference Commons that aggregated blogs posts, Flickr pics and other content tagged scienceblogging.com.

Paul Jones was our institutional contact, offering ibiblio.org support; with his help, UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication once again provided a home base for our finances and accounting, and the UNC Health Sciences Library allowed us the use of its fantastic computer lab for the blogging skills session.

Donors
Even before our 2007 event was over, Russ Campbell of Burroughs Wellcome Fund was urging us to think bigger, and helping us win the funds to do so. The substantial grant from Burroughs Wellcome anchored the rest of our fundraising.

Roger Harris, Chris Brodie and Rosalind Reid of Sigma Xi also pledged their support at the first conference, and that led to Sigma Xi offering its beautiful building for the event. Interim Executive Director Linda Meadows gave us a nice welcome (and sent a touching congratulations note). Meg Murphy worked with us over many months to plan the best use of the space, and she calmly took in our mercurial program changes.

JMP Software, was another repeat sponsor and cash donor. New donors this years were the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, The Hamner Institute for Health Sciences, CrossRef and WNCN NBC-17 — their generous gifts allowed us to guarantee an ample supply of coffee, good food throughout the day (including vegetarian options) and travel grants to many of our discussion leaders.

Science lab tours
This year, we introduced pre-conference activities including visits to local science labs. Karl Bates at Duke University (he’s just unveiled a cool new site, Research at Duke) helped to line up three popular lab tours. Erin Knight at the Hamner Institutes, Cyndy Yu Robinson of the EPA, and Roy Campbell at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences also set up and facilitated tours of labs at their organizations.

Grab bag of science swag
Once again, we worked hard to put together a grab bag filled with useful, interesting and fun resources — not just stuff, but science-related materials that could inform conference attendees and then be shared with the libraries, schools and newsrooms in the communities of the attendees. The Museum of Life and Science (cool new website) and American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the instigation of Troy Livingston, VP for innovation & learning, stepped up to provide awesome canvas tote bags.

And into those bags we stuffed materials from ACD Labs, American Scientist, The HMS Beagle Project, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Columbia University Press, Coral Reef Alliance, Discover, HarperCollins, Michigan State University, MSNBC, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, National Geographic Society, Nature, OpenHelix, Oregon Public Broadcasting, PLoS-One, Project Exploration, Science News, Scienceblogs, Scientific American, Seed Publishing, Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project, The Scientist, Wired and Wired Science.

Discussion Leaders
The conference offered 14 sessions in all, and each session was led by one or more individuals. See the program page to see who did what. Special thanks to Adnaan Wasey and Abel Pharmboy for very ably filling in as discussion moderators at the last moment. The rest: Dr.Hemai Parthasarathy, Janet Stemwedel, Adnaan Wasey, Kevin Zelnio, Karen James, Rick MacPherson, Peter Etnoyer, Jason Robertshaw, Vedran Vucic, Suzanne Franks, Karen Ventii, Patricia B. Campbell, ScienceWoman , David Warlick, Martin Rundkvist, Shelley Batts, Sarah Wallace, Anne-Marie Hodge, Anna Kushnir, Brian Switek, Xan Gregg, Jean-Claude Bradley, Tara Smith, Becky Oskin, Dave Munger, Chris Mooney, Jennifer Jacquet, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Jennifer Ouellette.

Volunteers
Anton’s mother, Cheryl Zuiker, wanted to see her son in action, so she volunteered to work the registration table at the conference. Elle Cayabyab Gitlin and Abel Pharmboy also helped greet people, and Brian Switek and Martin Rundkvist passed out T-shirts and grab bags. Rob Zelt picked up the morning pastries and got them to the hall on time. Rob and Wayne and Brian (and myself) assisted Anton during the Friday skills session.

All those heavy grab bags of science swag? It took a crew to pack those: Ernie Hood, John Rees, Wayne Sutton, Anton Zuiker, Andrea Novicki, Troy Livingston, Brian Russell and Jonathan Tarr.

The Food
Meals were catered or ordered from Fetzko Coffees (Brian and Ruby suggested this), Weaver Street Market, Saladelia Cafe, Locopops and Bullocks Barbecue. The Friday dinner was held at Town Hall Grill (whose owner is very grateful for the blog coverage of the excellent food and service they provided).

So, thanks again to all the individuals and organizations supporting our free, public-understanding-of-science conference. If I’ve missed you, please tell me so that I can acknowledge your role in making this event so successful.

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Here’s a collection of blog posts written during the Science Blogging Conference (more will be added over the next couple of days as people write their posts after recovering from travel) and the collection of video recordings of several sessions. Also, check out all the other action from today….

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If you have not done it yet, please fill a brief questionnaire about your experience at the Science Blogging Conference. We will meet in a couple of weeks to analyze how it went and to start brainstorming the ways we can make the next conference even better.
So far, we received 46 responses through that form and have been reading them carefully. One of the responders was not even there – he fully participated in the proceedings online, watching the streaming videos and participating in chatrooms in real time, then blogging about it. I wish there was a way to send locopops – the high point of the conference for some people, according to the survey – via internet (it’s a set of tubes, after all, so what could be easier, right?) to all of those who followed the meeting virtually. Imagine just logging in, choosing the flavor (spicy Mexican chocolate, yum!) and clicking “Send” and, voila, the popsicle appears from a little chute on the side of your computer!
BTW, I have been dutifully updating the Blog and Media coverage page on the wiki, so you can see what people are saying about the conference. Several sessions are described in detail, there are several videos and screencasts, and some conversations started at the meeting are now continuing on blogs.

Brian 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:

There 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 meeting each other – and there were 20 of us there. This makes this meeting the Vice-Champion of SciBling gatherings, only bested by last August’s Big SciBling Meetup in New Tork City, which boasted 35 sciencebloggers. And we’ll keep doing it. Here are the SciBlings who made it to North Carolina this past weekend:
Martin Rundkvist
Janet Stemwedel
Tara Smith
Dave Munger
Peter Etnoyer
Kevin Zelnio
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Chris Mooney
James Hrynyshyn
Brian Switek
Evil Monkey
Sciencewoman (and Minnow)
Virginia Hughes
Shelley Batts
Karen Ventii
Jennifer Jacquet
Abel PharmBoy
Josh Rosenau
Suzanne Franks
…and me.
Go here to see our group shot!

Through 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 this comment thread for one example). A number of people, both those at the site and those far away, used the variety of online tools to participate.
Thanks to Tola Oguntoyinbo of Sonecast for building the conference Commons a one-stop shopping site for all things related to the Conference. Now that the meeting is over, do not delete that bookmark yet! The site will remain live over the next year, getting built more and more – definitely a place to go to keep up with the discussion on science blogging, on science in North Carolina and the blogging events in the Triangle.
While some of the audio, video and screencast recordings are being put online now (and see the growing number of photographs here and here and here), real Hit Of The Day was live streaming video with attached chatrooms which allowed the off-site participants to comment and ask questions in real time. Jason set up one of those for the Real-time blogging in Marine Sciences session. Karen did the same for the Gender and Race in science: online and offline session.
But, real kudos go to Wayne Sutton who provided real-time video streaming and chat for several sessions, handled the cameras (ably assisted by Brian Russell), made sure that at least some questions from the chatrooms got asked during the sessions and all sorts of other odds and ends on the technical aspects of hosting a conference and making sure everything went smoothly. Click on his name up there and visit his blog – he also interviewed several organizers and participants of the conference and posted the videos of the interviews (very, very cool interviews!). Say Hello and Thank you while there (image of Wayne from Flickr, by ‘base10’):

During 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.

Here is the screencast of the session:

Well, 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…

On 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….

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And here, under the fold, are some more pictures from the Conference:

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Here are some pictures from the Conference itself (under the fold):

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And here is the last set from the Friday dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):

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And, under the fold, you will see even more pictures from the Friday night dinner (isn’t my wife a great photographer?):

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Even more pictures from the Friday dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):

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Here are some more pictures from the Friday dinner (under the fold):

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Here are a few pictures from the Friday night dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):

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On Friday afternoon, I went to one of the Lab Tours with several participants of the Science Blogging Conference to the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh, where we were treated to a royal tour of the fossil lab, the vaults and the exhibits:

After the Blogging101 session, I went to Radisson and had lunch with several science bloggers freshly arrived for the Science Blogging Conference, but I was too excited about meeting them, and to interested in my food to be a good photographer, so I only took a couple of shots of Dave and Elisabeth:

Here are just a couple of pictures from the Friday morning hands-on session on Blogging101 – the very beginning of the Science Blogging Conference:

I spent a lot of time today offline (and in the car), and I am exhausted, but here is a very brief summary of the day (I’ll post the pictures and update the blog linkfest later – UPDATE: I just updated the Blog and Media Coverage page).
After the Blogging Skills Session, I drove a couple of participants back to the hotel, where we met up with several other bloggers for lunch. From there, we went to one of the afternoon Lab Tours – the one to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, where the exhibit director Roy Campbell gave us a brilliant, informative and witty exclusive tour, both of the exhibit (including the visiting Dinosaur exhibit) and the vaults/collections and the fossil lab. Watch other blogs for summaries of other Lab Tours.
Then, we had great fun (about 40 of us) at dinner in Town Hall Grill. It was great to see some of the familiar faces again and to meet some online friends, old and new, in the meatspace for the first time. The restaurant staff, from the owner and the manager, to the chef and the servers went all out to make our evening a success and it was great. Watch out for some foodblogging from the others later!
We were also joined for a while by Jim Neal who is running for the Senate seat currently held by Elizabeth Dole (btw, the restaurant is just under the Edwards campaign headquarters)
The main program of the Science Blogging Conference is tomorrow. There is a winter advisory, so we’ll watch the weather and, if absolutely necessary, modify the afternoon program so at least the locals can drive to their homes safely (the out-of-towners are stuck in the hotel across the street so they may just as well finish all the sessions first).
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages. And participate in the blogging conference both online and offline as much as you can. Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures, podcasts and videos.

Sitting in the UNC Health Science Library computer lab. There’s about 20 of us. Most people are relatively new to blogging and they are asking excellent questions. Anton Zuiker is leading the session. Brian Russell, Wayne Sutton and I pitch in as needed.

Yes, about 200-something people will be participating in the Science Blogging Conference in the real space and real time, being physically present. But, both those who are here and those who are not should also participate online.
Here are the three main places to do so:
1. The Wiki
The main conference wiki, set up by Anton Zuiker, is the center of the conference universe. Look around and see what is happening. Check the ‘Recent Activity’ tab to see who made changes to what page recently. Feel free to edit pages – no need to enter the e-mail address (it will reject your edit) – just solve the captcha and edit. If you mess a page up and do not know how to fix it, don’t worry, move on – someone tech-savvy is likely to come along soon and will fix the page after you (and if you know how to fix it and see a messed-up page, please fix it for others).
The main pages on the wiki for you to look at are the individual session pages. If you go to the Program page you will see, next to each session’s description, a link to take to “Join the discussion online.” Click on it and read what others have put there and edit the page to add your own ideas, comments, questions, useful links, etc… On Saturday early morning, the Program page will also have all the information about recordings – several sessions will be recorded in some way: audio, video or screencast and these recordings will be uploaded in several places. Some sessions will have live video streaming and an attached chat-room so people not physically present can participate in real time.
The media and blog responses will be all collected on the Blog and Media Coverage page of the wiki. I will be updating the page manually as frequently as I can. Help me by tagging your posts with “scienceblogging.com” (either add that tag, or make sure that word appears in the text, or that you include the link to the main conference homepage) and/or e-mailing me the links.
2. Pibb chatrooms
Brian Russell has set up a separate chatroom for each session. Register with and log into Pibb, click on the “Chat Room” link and ask to be allowed into the ncsciencebloggingconference1 chat room. On the right, you will see a menu of all the sessions – pick one and start chatting.
3. Sonecast Media Center
Tola Oguntoyinbo has designed a special website for us – the Science Blogging Conference Commons. This is the place where you can easily register and log in, see all the conference-related conversation and media: blogposts, photos, videos, podcasts, etc. and you can add comments and even chat there. Play around it a bit to get used to it and use it on Saturday and afterwards as much as you can.
4. What you can do?
If you are not physically present, check the above three sites, see what sessions are going on with live video and chat and join in the conversation.
If you are going to be there – bring in your cameras, video cameras, microphones, laptops and make the best use of the equipment. Post your pictures on Flickr. Post your videos on YouTube. Upload your podcasts somewhere. Write blog posts. Whatever you do – always tag your work with ‘scienceblogging.com’ so it gets aggregated in one place for all to see.
This also goes for the Friday events – if you will be attending the Blogging Skills Session or one of the Lab Tours or the Friday Dinner (and, due to some last-minute cancellations, all three of those events now have a few open slots for you to come in!), please blog about them, take pictures, record podcasts and videos and tag them so everyone can see them.
You can also monitor and join in the discussion on The Wall of the Conference Facebook page.
Finally, I expect that Twitter will be atwitter throughout the conference – listen in and join the conversation.

The Science Blogging Conference is tomorrow and Saturday. We have 214 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
I have been highlighting the participants for the past couple of months, and today is the time for the final part of this roll-call:
Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School at Duke University
Nancy Shepherd is the Director of Technology Licensing and Worldwide Business Development at GlaxoSmithKline
Tania Mucci is a medical student at Jefferson Medical College
Clinton Colmenares is the Research Editor at UNC News Services at UNC Chapel Hill
Rose Reis heads The INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Rose Hoban is the health reporter and producer at North Carolina Public Radio
Andrew Puca is a research scientist at the Sbarro Institute for Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research
Joel Ross is the RadCCORE Program Director at Duke University
If you are coming to the Conference, you will get to meet them in person very, very, very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about carpools and rides, etc. for the Blogging101 session, for the Lab Tours, for the Friday Dinner, and for the Conference itself. Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

You can follow the conversation about the Conference by checking in, every now and then, the Blog and Media Coverage page on the wiki. The links to date can also be found under the fold…
If you want your posts to be easily detected and included in the listing, please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as a tag, or as text or link inside your post.

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There are 4 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 214 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. I have been highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Irene Klotz is a veteran journalist and author who writes about space, science, and astronomy, most recently for the Discovery Channel and Reuters
Jayne Byrne is a freelance writer and she blogs at Jayne’s Breast Cancer Blog
Regina Ali is the lead Research Technician in the Genome Research Laboratory at NCSU
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

Last-minute odds and ends in organizing the Conference required me to be awake today when I met with Anton, who took this picture to show I was taking it very seriously. Hover your mouse over the cup….

There are 5 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 212 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. I have been highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Melissa Srougi is a postdoc at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Molly Keener is the reference librarian at Wake Forest University Health Sciences and a blogger.
David Stein is the educational partnership coordinator in the Office of Community Affairs at Duke University
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

I can’t believe that the Conference is only about 10 days away! Almost everything is set and ready to go and we are all very excited.
If you look at the Program page, we have assembled a star-studded group of speakers and moderators who will lead sessions on a number of interesting topics. Of course, if you are registered, you will be there to participate in person. But even if you are not, you are not completely shut out – there are ways that you can participate from a long distance away.
Go again to the Program page and you will notice that each session has a link to its own Discussion page. You can start adding your questions, ideas and comments to these individual session pages. Start the discussion online right now! This will also show the moderators what specific questions people are most interested in so they may be addressed more fully at the session itself.
As many as three of the sessions may have a live online component (check in here later for more information) – a chat function that will be displayed during the session so you can participate in real time.
Finally, some sessions will be recorded (audio, video, webcast, slideshow and/or photographs) and all of this material will be assembled in a single spot for you to check out afterwards. Also, if last year is any indication, several discussions that start at the conference will continue on blogs. Several journalists will be present and they are likely to write articles about the meeting as well. All of that blog and media response will also be assembled in one spot after the conference is over, so you can join the conversation then.

There are 13 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Frank Bell of Bell Associates Inte4rnational Llc, Rayetta Henderson, a toxicologist and journalist and John White of NC will be there.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 14 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Lisa Warner, Bill English, Aaron Lerner and Jonathan Tarr are coming from the Duke University campus.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 15 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Kelly Chi, Lisa Leighty and Prashant Nair are students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 16 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
William R. Klemm is a semi-retired Professor of Neuroscience at Texas A&M University and he blogs at Improve Your Memory. Yes, You Really Can!
Michael Helms works for Martin Marietta Materials and blogs at Absent.Canadian.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 17 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Liz Burr is the Associate Producer at WIRED SCIENCE
If you are registered, you will get to meet her in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 18 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Barbara Moffet is the Communications Director for the National Geographic Society
If you are registered, you will get to meet her in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 19 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Moshe Pritsker is the founder and director of JoVE.
If you are registered, you will get to meet him in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 20 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Carol Menaker of Myelin Repair Foundation,
Stewart Kohnberg of Biotest Diagnostics USA and Daniel Dawes of Optical Society of America will be there.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 21 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Ginny Skalski, Lisa Sullivan and Wayne Sutton are bloggers for WNCN-NBC17
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 22 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
John Ettorre is a Writing and Editing Consultant in Cleveland/Akron, Ohio and the owner of Working With Words
Ashley Predith is a freelance journalist in DC.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to share a room? Will you have a car with you then and there? Please offer to give others a ride by editing that wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Lab Tours by editing the wiki page.
Sign up for one of the remaining slots for the Friday morning Blogging Skills Sessions, either the beggining blogging or advanced blogging session.
Sign up for the Friday dinner by editing that wiki page.
Sign up to help in some other way by editing the Volunteer page.
Visit our Sponsors page to see who is making this all possible.
Write a blog post about it and see what others have already written so far.
Go to the Program page and start adding your questions, ideas and comments to the individual session pages.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.