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Our franchise is spreading! We are pleased to announce the beginning of a monthly New York City ScienceOnline event – Science Online NYC:

We’re delighted to be able to share some details of a new monthly event for anyone based in New York who’s interested in how science is carried out and communicated online.

Nature.com, in collaboration with co-organisers Jeanne Garbarino at Rockefeller University, John Timmer at Ars Technica and Joe Bonner from Rockefeller and SWINY, will be hosting a monthly discussion series consisting of a panel debate followed by audience Q&A and post-debate networking. We’d love you to come along!

The first SoNYC event will take place on Wednesday 20th April from 7pm at Rockefeller University (Caspary 1A/B – location 5 on this map), later adjourning to the Faculty and Students Club on-campus bar. The topic for discussion is:

Courting Controversy: how to successfully engage an online audience with complex or controversial topics.

Climate change. Nuclear safety. Vaccination. These are topics where scientific and medical experts are nearly unanimous when it comes to the basics. But the public has remained uncertain and sometimes hostile to the scientific understanding, in part because of the efforts of vocal and well organized groups that argue against the consensus position. In other cases, like the recent events in Japan, expert opinions have been drowned out by rumors and a rush to provide coverage.

Join us to discuss how science communicators can help ensure that accurate information rises above the noise, and the challenges faced by experts who attempt to reach the public directly. Our panel includes researchers who have engaged the press and the public about climate change, vaccines, and the perception of risk.

Ken Bromberg is the director of the Vaccine Research Center at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, and has made frequent appearances in the media to discuss vaccine safety.

David Ropeik is a former journalist who now lectures and consults on risk perception. In recent entries at his blog, On Risk, he has tackled vaccines and nuclear safety.

Gavin Schmidt is a climate researcher at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and a driving force behind the RealClimate blog. His public outreach efforts have included an appearance on the Letterman Show.

The aim is to make these meet-ups as interactive as possible; please bring your ideas, your experiences and your enthusiasm for a lively debate and chance to meet other like-minded NYC sci comm. folks. Once we’ve held the first event, we’ll be asking for your feedback and suggestions for the next one so that this becomes an regular, inclusive opportunity for the discussion of all things related to how science is carried out and communicated online.

You can find us online at the following places:
Twitter: @S_O_NYC, hashtag: #sonyc
Facebook: SoNYC page

Please let us know if you’re planning to come by signing up on Eventbrite as it helps to ensure we have the right sized room and enough for everyone to drink. Feel free to invite your colleagues and friends too. If you have any questions, do send Lou an email (l.woodley@nature.com).

Hope to see you in April!

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One by one, Anton loaded the videos of the recorded ScienceOnline2011 sessions and now they are all up for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy – this is hours of good stuff!

And then start mentally preparing for ScienceOnline2012. Follow the #scio11 and #scio12 hashtags on Twitter, suggest ideas for Program sessions for the next year, and make sure you are on our mailing list so you don’t miss the registration.

Anton was right – ScienceOnline2011 almost didn’t happen. But it did.

So check out what Anton said this morning.

While the public list of participants is still a little bit in flux – a few people just canceled and we scrambled to get some waitlisters in – the statistics on all of them are interesting (click on link to see large and play):

For example – 199 identified themselves as bloggers but 222 say they blog, so some people who use blogging software use it for something else they do not consider to be be blogging.

We have guests from eight countries: 264 from USA, 14 from Canada, 14 from the U.K., two from Netherlands, two from Germany, one from Ireland, one from Italy and one from Malaysia.

Canadians come from four different provinces: Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

Not all Brits are from Central London either, there are one each from Avon, Berkshire and Surrey.

We have guests from 35 states of the USA: NC – 95, NY – 42, CA – 20, DC – 10, IL – 9, MA – 8, PA – 7, VA – 7, GA – 6, FL – 5, MD – 5, TX – 5, CO – 4, IN – 4, MO – 3, SC – 3, WA – 3, WI – 3, CT – 2, DE – 2, IA – 2, KY – 2, TN – 2, AZ – 1, HI – 1, ID – 1, ME – 1, MN – 1, MT – 1, NH – 1, NJ – 1, NM – 1, OH – 1, OR – 1, UT – 1

Out of 95 from North Carolina, 75 reside in the Triangle area – the rest are spread from the mountains (Saluda), through Charlotte area, to the coast (e.g, Wilmington).

Check the stats yourself. We’ll also do some more later, e.g., the gender break-down etc. I think there will be 10 attendees younger than 18 years old, but I am not sure how old is the oldest participant (last year it was 75!) – there must be quite a range.

Right now it is sunny and clear. The major roads are dry, and the ice is rapidly melting on sidewalks:

One of the special speakers at the banquet at ScienceOnline2011 will be Dr. Margaret (Meg) Lowman, the Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences‘ Nature Research Center.

The Nature Research Center (NRC) is “the new 80,000-square-foot wing of the Museum dedicated to bringing scientific research into the public eye. Currently under construction in the block west of the Museum, the NRC is scheduled to open in early 2012. Lowman is also Research Professor of Natural Sciences in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at NC State University, where she focuses on initiatives involving communicating science to the public.”

The way I understand the concept of NRC is that the Museum visitors (and a number of ScienceOnline2011 participants will go on a traditional tour of the Museum and its basement vaults) will have an opportunity there to interact with real working scientists, observe them at work, talk to them and ask questions, and importantly, to try their own hands at doing stuff. A number of local labs are going to be involved in this, putting some of their research resources into the building and doing their work under the eyes (and probably continuous questioning and conversation) of the curious public.

One of the participants in this endeavor will be Dr.Rob Dunn from the NCSU Biology Department (yes, that is my old Department, now renamed).

Now, to understand what next I will say, you need to be familiar with Rob Dunn’s recent blog post, The top 10 life-forms living on Lady Gaga (and you), especially point #5: Vanity.

Just as was described in the post, visitors of the NRC at the Museum will be able to volunteer to have bacteria from their navels cultured and photographed and e-mailed to them.

NRC is not open yet, but attendees of ScienceOnline2011 on Sunday will be the very first to be offered this opportunity to participate. As Meg Lowman will also explain during the Saturday banquet, there will be a table set up at Sigma Xi on Sunday morning where you can donate your bellybutton lint. Provide your e-mail, and you’ll get a picture of the cultures.

Now, I know that this is not Citizen Science in the proper definition of the word. But, knowing the people who attend this meeting, I bet they can find creative ways to actually turn it into something more like it. Perhaps all of the images can be pooled into a single online place, perhaps a geographical map (including perhaps additional information about the donors, e.g,. bathing habits – morning vs. evening showers, usual type of clothes they wear, etc.). Or, some of the participants who have labs with required capabilities may go a step further and repeat the experiment at home but also sequence the microbial metagenomes of their navels, then get together with each other and publish a comparative study. Who knows, we may all learn something new from the exercise? Or at least they can be strong contenders for the next IgNobels…

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

David Wescott is vice president of APCO Worldwide. He blogs at It’s Not a Lecture and tweets as @dwescott1.

Minjae Ormes is a consultant for National Geographic Channel and Tribeca Film Institute. She tweets as @minjae.

Stephen Diggs is a Data/Cyberinfrastructure Manager at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He tweets as @scdiggs.

William Alexander is a Medical Writer/Editor. He often blogs at Science in the Triangle and at Stretch your mind.

Sarah Yelton is the PreK-12 Environmental Education Consultant at the NC Office of Environmental Education & Public Affairs.

Katherine Grichnik is Associate Dean at Continuing Medical Education at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Lisa Dellwo is a freelance writer and photographer, and a frequent contributor to Science in the Triangle. She tweets as @LisaDellwo.

Dawn Crawford is a Social media consultant. She blogs at BC/DC Ideas and tweets as @socmediarckstr and @dawnacrawford.

Brian Crawford is a Copywriter. He also blogs at BC/DC Ideas and tweets as @bcwritr.

Donna Krupa is the Communications Director at the American Physiological Society and she tweets as @Phyziochick.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Scott Huler is an Independent writer and producer. He blogs and tweets as @huler and also writes books like the awesome latest On The Grid. I interviewed Scott back in May.

Krystal D’Costa is an anthropologist working in New York City. She blogs at Anthropology in Practice and tweets as @anthinpractice.

Dr.Isis is a physiologist and blogger. She blogs at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess and The Brain Confounds Everything and tweets as @drisis.

Richard Grant is the chief editor of Naturally Selected, the Faculty of 1000 blog at The Scientist magazine. He also blogs at his own blog Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat and tweets as @rpg7twit.

Betul Kacar Arslan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Astrobiology Institute Center for Ribosome and Evolution. She blogs at Counter Minds and tweets as @BetulKArslan. I interviewed Betul in 2009.

Sara Imari Walker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Michelle Cerulli is a Graduate student in The Medical & Science Journalism Program at UNC. She tweets as @cerulli_m.

Rhitu Chatterjee is a Science reporter for the PRI’s The World. She tweets as @worldscipod.

Charles Yelton is the Curator of Programs and Citizen Science at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. He tweets as @naturalsciences.

Neil Losin is a Ph.D. Candidate at the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He blogs and he tweets as @neillosin.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Robin Ann Smith is a science writer, a freelance contributor to the News and Observer & Charlotte Observer, and directs the newsroom at NESCent. She tweets as @NESCent and @robinannsmith. I interviewed Robin back in March.

Amanda Moon is the Senior Book Editor at Scientific American and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She tweets as @amsciam.

Megan Scudellari is a Correspondent for The Scientist magazine.

Mary Jane Gore is the Senior Science Writer at the Duke Medicine News office. She tweets as @mjgore. I interviewed Mary back in March.

Victoria McGovern is the Senior Program Officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Pamela Blizzard is the Executive Director of the Contemporary Science Center. She tweets as @blizzkin.

Marla Broadfoot is a Freelance science writer and editor. She tweets as @mvbroadfoot. I interviewed Marla in November.

Fenella Saunders is a Senior Editor at the American Scientist. She tweets as @fenellasaunders. I interviewed Fenella back in May.

Elsa Youngsteadt is the Programs manager and Science producer for the Sigma Xi/BBC/Nova/PRI The World Science Podcast. She tweets as @worldscipod and @elsa_y.

Anne Frances Johnson is a Graduate Student in the Medical & Science Journalism Program at UNC. She is @afjwriting on Twitter. I interviewed Anne back in July.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Peter Janiszewski is an exercise physiologist, writer and editor. He is a co-creator of Science of Blogging and he blogs at Obesity Panacea and tweets as @pmjaniszewski.

Gabrielle Lyon is the Cofounder and Executive Director of Project Exploration where she runs the blog and the @ProjExplore twitter account. I interviewed Gabe two years ago.

Thomas Peterson is the Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center.

Mark MacAllister is the Coordinator of Online Learning Projects at the North Carolina Zoological Society. He founded and runs the Field Trip Earth educational resource and tweets as @fieldtripearth. I interviewed Mark back in March.

Cristine Russell is a Freelance writer for outlets like Columbia Journalism Review. She tweets as @russellcris.

Andrea Kuszewski is a Researcher at Metodo, a Behavior Therapist, and an artist. She blogs at Rogue Neuron and tweets as @AndreaKuszewski.

Tabitha Powledge is a freelance science & medical writer-editor as well as a member of the Executive Board of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) where she runs the homepage news blog. She tweets as @tamfecit.

Paul Groth is a Postdoc at VU University Amsterdam. He blogs at Think Links and tweets as @pgroth.

Kathleen Raven is a graduate student and freelance writer in the Knight Health Medical Journalism program at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She blogs at Paragraphs and tweets as @ravenkathleen.

Ann Allen is the Science Editor at The Charlotte Observer.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Seth Mnookin is a journalist and author, among other books, the upcoming excellent The Panic Virus. He blogs at The Panic Virus blog and tweets as @sethmnookin.

Melody Dye is a Researcher at Stanford University. She blogs at Child’s Play and tweets as @moximer.

Russ Williams is the Executive Director of the NC Zoo Society. He blogs at Russlings and tweets as @russwilliamsiii. I interviewed Russ back in March.

Kathryn Clancy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She blogs at Context and variation as well as on her lab blog Laboratory for Evolutionary Endocrinology. She tweets as @KateClancy.

Paul Raeburn is a journalist and author. He blogs most often at Knight Science Journalism Tracker, and sometimes at About Fathers and Fathers and Families. His next book, Why Fathers Matter, will be published in 2012. He tweets as @praeburn.

Leslie Taylor is project manager at the Science Friday Initiative and Web Editor of TalkingScience. She tweets as @talkingscience.

Nicole Garbarini is a Science Policy Fellow at NSF and AAAS. She tweets as @nikkigee.

Kristy Meyer is the Social Media Manager at Sigma Life Science. She tweets as @kristy3m.

John Ohab is the New Technology Strategist at OMNITEC Solutions Inc at the Department of Defense Public Web Program. He tweets as @ArmedwScience.

Chris Mooney is a writer and journalist. He is the author of ‘Republican War on Science’, ‘The Storm World” and “Unscientific America”. He blogs at The Intersection, hosts Point of Inquiry Podcasts and tweets as @ChrisMooney_.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Mary Knudson is a health and medical journalist. She is a Co-author of Living Well with Heart Failure and co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers. She blogs at HeartSense blog and tweets as @maryknudson.

Mark Hahnel is the Founder of science3point0.com and he tweets as @science3point0. I interviewed Mark in October.

Jan Reichelt is the President and Co-Founder of Mendeley. He tweets as @janerixo.

Jason Hoyt is the Chief Scientist at Mendeley. He tweets as @jasonHoyt. I interviewed Jason back in May.

Lucas Brouwers is a postgraduate student following the MSc programme Molecular Mechanisms of Disease in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He blogs at Thoughtomics and tweets as @lucasbrouwers.

Danielle Lee is Biologist, and an Outreach Scientist in St. Louis, Missouri. She blogs at Urban Science Adventures! and SouthernPlayalisticEvolutionMusic and tweets as @DNLee5. I interviewed Danielle last year.

John Rennie is a Freelance science writer & editor. He blogs at Retort and tweets as @tvjrennie.

Helene Andrews-Polymenis is Associate Professor at Texas A&M Health Science Center in the College of Medicine. She blogs and tweets and is one of the founders/developers of The Third Reviewer. I interviewed Helene back in August.

Amos Zeeberg is the Managing Editor at Discover Magazine Online and Discover Blogs. He tweets as @settostun.

Clifton Wiens is the Head of Research and Editorial Story Development for National Geographic Television. He tweets as @cliftonwiens.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University. He blogs at Useful Chemistry and tweets as @jcbradley. I interviewed Jean-Claude two years ago – he is one of the handful people to attend all five conferences and one of only two people who moderated a session every single year.

Karen James is the Director of Science for the HMS Beagle Project. She also blogs at Data Not Shown and tweets as @kejames and @beagleproject. I interviewed Karen two years ago.

Olivia Koski is a Freelance Writer and a recent graduate of NYU’s program for Science, Health and Environmental Reporting where she blogged at Scienceline. She tweets as @oliviakoski.

Katie Peek is an astrophysicist turned science journalist and another recent recent graduate of NYU’s program for Science, Health and Environmental Reporting where she blogged at Scienceline. She tweets as @kathrynpeek.

Steve Koch is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. He blogs at Steve Koch Science and tweets as @skoch3.

Amy Freitag is a PhD student at Duke University. She blogs at Southern Fried Science and tweets as @bgrassbluecrab. I interviewed Amy in May.

Vicky Somma is the Director of Software Development at Management Solutions of Virginia. She blogs at TGAW and tweets as @TGAW.

Robert Mitchum is a Senior Science and Research Reporter at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where is the editor of the Science Life blog. He tweets as @sciencelife.

Romeo Vitelli is a Psychologist in Toronto. He blogs at Providentia and tweets as @rvitelli.

David Whitlock is a chief scientist at Nitroceutic LLC and he blogs at Stranger than you can imagine .

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Meg Lowman is a writer, researcher, adventurer, and the Director of the Nature Research Center at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. She blogs at Canopy Meg and tweets as @canopymeg.

Steve Mirsky is the Podcast Editor and Columnist at Scientific American. He tweets as @stevemirsky.

Sophia Collins is the Producer of the Gallomanor Project: I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here!. She tweets as @imascientist.

Ryan Somma is the Senior Software Developer at USCG. He blogs at Ideonexus and tweets as @ideonexus. I interviewed Ryan two years ago.

Kea Giles is the Managing Editor of GSA Communications at The Geological Society of America. She blogs at Dragonfly Wars and tweets as @Colo_kea.

James Shackleton is a Student at White Oak High School in Jacksonville, NC.

Mary Canady is the President of Comprendia. She blogs at the Comprendia blog and tweets as @comprendia.

Heidi Anderson is the Editor of SheThought.com. She is on Twitter as @HeidiAnderson.

Nicole Gugliucci is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. She blogs at One Astronomer’s Noise and tweets as @NoisyAstronomer.

Thomas O’Donnell is a Science and Technology Writer at Krell Institute.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Deborah Blum is writer and a Professor of Journalism at University of Wisconsin. She blogs at Speakeasy Science and tweets as @deborahblum. I have reviewed her latest book ‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’ – here.

Stephanie Willen Brown is the director of the Park Library in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She blogs at CogSci Librarian and tweets as @CogSciLibrarian. I interviewed Stephanie back in July.

Melissa Lott is a Graduate student and Research Assistant at University of Texas at Austin. She blogs on Global Energy Matters and tweets as @mclott.

Jessica McCann is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke University Medical Center. She tweets as @jess_i_am.

Louis Shackleton is a student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He blogs at Crowded Head, Cozy Bed and tweets as @LouFCD.

Todd Harris is a Bioinformaticist and information architect at WormBase. He blogs at The World Is My Cubicle and tweets as @tharris.

Carl Boettiger is a Graduate Student Researcher in Population Biology at University of California, Davis. He tweets as @cboettig.

Jennifer Walton is the Public Relations Manager at NEON, Inc.. She tweets as @NEONInc.

Ann Marie Cunningham is the Executive Director of the Science Friday Initiative – the nonprofit of Science Friday on NPR – and she blogs at Talking Science. She tweets as @talkingscience.

Kelly Rae Chi is a freelance writer. I interviewed Kelly justa few weeks ago. She tweets as @kellyraechi.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Andrea Novicki is the Academic Technology Consultant at Duke University. She blogs at Duke’s CIT blog and tweets as @andrea1. I interviewed Andrea back in March.

Ferris Jabr is a Freelance writer and science journalist who just graduated from New York University SHERP and, after finishing his internship at Scientific American MIND, is starting his new job at The New Scientist. He blogs at The Mind’s Flight and tweets as @ferrisjabr.

Samuel Dupuis is a student at Dragon Academy. He blogs at Science of Sorts on My Mind . I interviewed Sam last year.

Alberto Roca is the Diversity Consultant and Founder & Editor at MinorityPostdoc.org.

Constance Cummings is the Project Director at The Foundation for Psychocultural Research. She tweets as @thefpr_org.

Roy Campbell is the Director of Exhibits at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.

Catherine Anderson is a Lecturer at a university and Program Director of a science outreach program for teens. She blogs at Genegeek and tweets as @genegeek.

Steven Bachrach is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Trinity University. He writes the Computational Organic Chemistry blog.

Karyn Hede is a science communicator and educator. She is a news correspondent for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Science “Careers”. I interviewed Karyn back in May.

Dan Ferber is a Freelance journalist and author. His latest book is Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. He tweets as @DanFerber. In 2002, with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, he uncovered how the Bush administration had begun stacking science advisory committees to get the answers they wanted—work that helped trigger a Congressional investigation.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Chris Rowan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He blogs at Highly Allochthonous and tweets as @Allochthonous

Kendra Snyder is a science writer at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She blogs at Brookhaven Bits & Bytes and tweets as @kendrasnyder.

Catherine Crawley is a Science Writer at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and she tweets as @NIMBioS.

Susanne Bard is the Producer of Science Update at AAAS. She tweets as @Science_Update.

Emily Finke is the Public Education Specialist at the Cincinnati Museum Center and a Student at University of Cincinnati. She tweets as @seelix.

Karl Leif Bates is the Director of Research Communications at Duke University where he also blogs on their Research Blog. He tweets as @klb8s. I interviewed Karl two years ago.

Ashley Yeager is a Science writer and Research Blogger at Duke University. She tweets as @AshleyJYeager.

Liz Jones is the Curator of Educational Events at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

Rhianna Wisniewski is the Editor at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jai Ranganathan is the Center Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He produces Curiouser and Curiouser podcast at Miller-McCune and tweets as @jranganathan

Kerstin Hoppenhaus is a Freelance Filmmaker. She blogs at More than Honey and tweets as @quinoat. I interviewed Kerstin back in April.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Anna Lena Phillips is the Assistant editor of the Scientists’ Bookshelf at the American Scientist

Alicia Roberts is a Freelance writer and editor. She tweets as @aliciawroberts

Peter Genzer is the Manager for Media & Communications at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He tweets as @PeteGenz.

Jeff Foust is the Editor of The Space Review. He tweets as @jeff_foust.

Tricia Kenny is the Director of Market Development at Invitrogen Life Technologies. She tweets as @everydaycloning.

Lyndell Bade is a MS Student and an Instructor at East Carolina University. She blogs at SaveOurSharks and People, Policy, Planet and tweets as @lyndellmbade.

Tom Swanson is a Research Physicist at the US Naval Observatory. He blogs on Swans on Tea and tweets as @Swansontea

Jennifer Williams is the Senior Scientist at OpenHelix, LLC and blogs at The OpenHelix Blog. She tweets as @openhelix

Jennifer Weston is the Director of Communication in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. She tweets as@Tuffysprite.

Julie Meachen-Samuels is a Postdoctoral Associate at NESCent.

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Dennis Meredith is the Editor at Glyphus. He is the author of Explaining Research. He blogs at Research Explainer and tweets as @explainresearch. I interviewed Dennis back in March.

Patric Lane is the Health and Science editor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He tweets as @patriclane.

Melissa Anley-Mills is the Science Communications officer in the Office of Research & Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She blogs on Greenversations and tweets as @EPAresearch.

Jeremy Yoder is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Idaho. He blogs at Denim and Tweed and tweets as @JBYoder. I interviewed Jeremy back in May.

Ariel Neff is the Instruction and Science Reference Librarian at Benedictine University. She blogs at The Methods Section and tweets as @arielibrarian.

Katie Mosher is the Communications Director at the North Carolina Sea Grant.

Rebecca Weinberg is a Graduate Student at Penn State University. She tweets as @sciliz.

Tom Linden is the Director of the Medical & Science Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He blogs at Dr. Tom Linden’s Health Blog and tweets as @tomlinden. I interviewed Tom in May.

Greg Anderson is the Publisher of GenomeWeb

William Hogan is a student in Charlotte NC.

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Misha Angrist is an Assistant Professor at Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He blogs at Genome Boy and tweets as @mishaangrist. His book, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics, just came out last month. I interviewed Misha for the blog back in March.

Princess Ojiaku is a Graduate Student at North Carolina Central University, a musician, and a blogger at Science with Moxie. She tweets as @artfulaction.

Russ Campbell is the Communications Officer for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. He blogs at Fishtown University and tweets as @razoobe. I interviewed Russ last year.

Nancy Lamontagne is a Freelance writer, and the Associate Director of Communications at the UNC CHapel Hill School of Nursing. She tweets as @UNCSON.

Benjamin Young Landis is the Outreach/Communications Coordinator at USGS Western Ecological Research Center. He blogs and he tweets as @younglandis.

Kelly Izlar is the 1st year MA in the Medical and Science journalism program at the UNC – Chapel Hill School of Journalism.

Holly Menninger is a Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University and the Co-host and producer of Science Cabaret on Air. She tweets as @DrHolly.

Suzanne Franks is a Scientopia blogger at Thus Spake Zuska. I interviewed Zuska two years ago.

Lisa Gardiner is the Director of Education at NEON, Inc..

Bill Cannon is the Webzine manager and editor of DEIXIS, a U.S. Department of Energy program run by the Krell Institute. He tweets as @ScienceMachines

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Rick MacPherson is the Conservation Programs Director at the Coral Reef Alliance. He blogs at Deep Sea News and tweets as @rmacpherson. I interviewed Rick two years ago.

Enrico M. Balli is the founder and CEO of Sissa Medialab in Trieste, Italy, producing the next generation of Italian science journalists. He blogs at Oggi Scienza and tweets as @eballi.

Heather Piwowar is a postdoc research associate at UBC, funded by the NSF-funded DataONE cyberinfrastructure project. She is working with the Dryad team at NESCent, studying data sharing and reuse behaviour. Heather blogs at Research Remix and tweets as @researchremix

John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He blogs at Confessions of a Science Librarian and tweets as @dupuisj. I interviewed John two years ago.

Bonnie Swoger is the Science and Technology Librarian at the Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo. She blogs at the Undergraduate Science Librarian and tweets as @bonnieswoger

Adrian J. Ebsary is a Graduate Student at the University of Ottawa and the founder of Peer Review Radio. He tweets as @ajebsary.

Irene Klotz is a journalist for Discovery Channel and Reuters. I think this is her Twitter profile.

Matthew Soniak is a freelance writer in Philadelphia, PA, who blogs on the eponimous blog. He tweets as @flossymatt.

Jamie Vernon is the Assistant Director Biology Labs at the American University. He tweets as @JLVernonPhD. We recently realized that I was his Teaching Assistant at NCSU some years ago.

Michael Taffe is an Associate Professor at The Scripps Research Institute. He tweets as @effatma.

Let’s continue introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Randi Hutter Epstein MD is the Editor at Yale Journal of Medical Humanities. She is the author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank and she tweets as @rhutterepstein.

Carl Zimmer is a Contributing editor at Discover where he also blogs at The Loom. He is the author of several popular science books, but the latest one is essentially a textbook – The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. He also tweets as @carlzimmer.

Nancy Shute is an independent writer for NPR, National Geographic, Scientific American, US News & World Report. She blogs at US News & World Report, is the current president of NASW and she tweets as @nancyshute.

Jason Thibeault is a Systems Delivery Specialist (IT) and a skeptic. He blogs at Lousy Canuck and tweets as @lousycanuck.

Catherine Clabby is the Associate editor at the American Scientist magazine and tweets as @cathyclabby.

Kari Wouk is the Senior Manager of Presentations and Partnerships at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

DeLene Beeland is a Freelance Science & Nature Writer. She blogs at Wild Muse and tweets as @tdelene.

Ana Nelson is the Creator of Dexy. She tweets as @ananelson.

Liz Neeley is the Assistant Director of Science Outreach at COMPASS and she tweets as @LizNeeley.

Colin Schultz is a Freelance journalist. He blogs at CMBR and tweets as @_ColinS_.

As I do every year, I will do a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Scott Rosenberg is a Director of MediaBugs.org, a pioneer blogger at Wordyard.com (also at Salon.com). He is a co-founder and was the managing editor of Salon.com. Scott tweets as @scottros and is the author of two excellent books: Say Everything and Dreaming in Code.

Maia Szalavitz is a Freelance neuroscience journalist and writer for TIME. She blogs at Born for Love, tweets as @maiasz and is the co-author of several books including Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential–and Endangered.

Stewart Wills is the Editorial Director for Web & New Media at AAAS/Science Magazine. He tweets as @stewartwills

John Timmer is the Science Editor at Ars Technica and he tweets as @j_timmer. I interviewed John back in February.

Emily Willingham is a writer and editor. She blogs at College Biology Blog and The Biology Files. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to College Biology and she tweets as @collegebiology and @biolotrix.

Stephanie Soucheray-Grell is a student of Medical Journalism at UNC.

Leigh Krietsch Boerner is a graduate student at Indiana University and a freelance science writer, blogging at Just Another Electron Pusher and tweeting as @LeighJKBoerner/

Allison Bland is a Communication, Culture and Technology student at Georgetown University. She tweets as @blandiloquent.

Diane Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She blogs at Science Made Cool. She is the author of children’s books Fossils and Stick Insect.

Robert Reddick is a Blogger and Developer in Mount Holly, near Charlotte NC. He blogs at RobertReddick.com and tweets as @rabbitrock.

Here is another installment of the traditional series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Vanessa Woods is a Research Scientist at Duke University. She blogs at Your Inner Bonobo and tweets as @bonobohandshake. Her latest book is Bonobo Handshake which I reviewed when it first came out. Vanessa also did a blog interview for me a couple of years ago.

Christina Pikas is a Librarian at JHU/APL. She blogs at Christina’s LIS Rant and tweets as @cpikas. I interviewed her for the blog two years ago.

Andrew Farke is the Curator of Paleontology at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and is one of the people behind The Open Dinosaur Project. He blogs at The Open Source Paleontologist. You can learn more in his blog interview from back in March.

Vivienne Raper is a Freelance writer and editor. She blogs at Outdoor Science on the AGU network and tweets as @vivraper.

Hillary Rosner is a Freelance journalist and the Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She tweets as @hillaryrosner.

Jim Hutchins is a Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Weber State University. He tweets as @agileroxy.

Emily Anthes is a Freelance science writer. She blogs on Wonderland at the PLoS network and tweets as @emilyanthes

John Logsdon is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Iowa. He blogs at Sex, Genes & Evolution and tweets as @johnlogsdon.

Tim De Chant is a Science Writer and Editor at Northwestern University. He tweets as @tdechant.

Kathleen O’Neil is the Public Information Specialist at the American Geophysical Union. She tweets as @katmoneil

As I do every year, I will do a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Holly Tucker is an Associate Professor of both French and the History of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of upcoming book Blood Work. She blogs at Scientia Curiosa and tweets as @history_geek.

Tom Levenson is a Professor of science writing at MIT. His most recent book is Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist. He blogs at The Inverse Square Blog and tweets as @tomlevenson. I interviewed Tom back in 2008.

Joseph Kraus is the Science & Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver. He blogs at Nuthing But.Net and tweets as @jokrausdu.

Elizabeth Boyle is the Production Coordinator for the Delaware Sea Grant and she tweets as @eboylewrites.

Alok Jha is a Science correspondent at The Guardian and the Community Manager of the Guardian Science Blogs, He tweets as @alokjha.

Lisa Tossey is an Outreach Specialist at the University of Delaware. She is on Twitter as @tossey.

David Orr is a Graphic Designer with the love for dinosaurs, art and dinosaur art. He blogs at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs and tweets as @anatotitan.

Meredith Salisbury is the Editor in Chief of GenomeWeb.

Walter Jessen is the Founder, editor and senior writer at Highlight HEALTH. He blogs at Expressing Scientific Insight and tweets as @wjjessen.

Tyler Dukes is a Freelance Journalist in Raleigh NC. He writes for Science in the Triangle, blogs at Write -30- | Adventures at the End of Journalism. and tweets as @mtdukes.

Continuing with the series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Carmen Drahl is a PhD chemist and a Science reporter and blogger at Chemical & Engineering News, where she blogs on Newscripts and The Haystack. She tweets as @carmendrahl. I interviewed Carmen back in April.

Rachel Pepling is the Editor at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Online magazine. She tweets as @rachelpep.

Molly Keener is a veteran of all the ScienceOnline conferences in the past. She is the Scholarly Communication Librarian in the Coy C. Carpenter Library at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and runs their news blog. She is on Twitter as @mollykeener.

Desiree Schell is the Show Host of Skeptically Speaking and tweets as @teh_skeptic.

Ed Yong is a Science writer. He blogs at Not Exactly Rocket Science and at Cancer Research UK and tweets as @Edyong209. I interviewed Ed back in March.

Maria Walters is the Director for Game Operations at Hi-Rez Studios. She blogs at Skepchick.org and tweets as @masalaskeptic

Greg Gbur is a Professor of Physics at UNC Charlotte. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars and tweets as @drskyskull

Jelena Ducic is a biologist and the Primary NFP for the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of Serbia.

Blake Stacey is a researcher at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He blogs at Science After Sunclipse and tweets as @blakestacey. He is the author of Until Earthset and I interviewed Blake for the blog last year.

Stephanie Levi is the Coordinator at the Student Center for Science Engagement at the Northeastern Illinois University. She blogs at Science is Sexy and tweets as @scienceissexy

Continuing with the series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Holly Bik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of New Hampshire. She blogs at Deep Sea News and tweets as @Dr_Bik.

David Shiffman is a Graduate Student at the College of Charleston. He blogs at Southern Fried Scientist and tweets as @WhySharksMatter

Jeff Ives is the Editorial Manager at the New England Aquarium and he tweets as @neaq and @thejives. I interviewed Jeff back in February.

Jason Robertshaw is the Media and Technology Coordinator at the Mote Marine Laboratory. He blogs at Cephalopodcast and tweets as @cephalopodcast.

Andrew Thaler is a Graduate Student at the Duke University Marine Lab. He blogs at Southern Fried Scientist, managed the Gam science blogging network, and tweets as @sfriedscientist. I interviewed Andrew twice for the blog – in March and again in September.

Craig McClain is the Assistant Director of Science at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). He blogs at Deep Sea News and tweets as @DrCraigMc. I interviewed Craig last year.

Michael Barton is a student of History of Science. He blogs at The Dispersal of Darwin and tweets as @darwinsbulldog.

Anne Jefferson is an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte. She blogs at Highly Allochthonous and tweets as @highlyanne.

Douglas Johnston is an Adjunct Instructor in Distance Learning at the UNC School of Public Health.

Pascale Lane is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She blogs at Stream of Thought and Whizbang and tweets as @PHLane.

As I do every year, this is a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Jennifer Rohn is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University College London. She founded and runs LabLit.com, she blogs at Mind the Gap and tweets as @jennyrohn. Jennifer wrote two books of fiction, both happening in a laboratory setting – Experimental Heart (which I loved) and The Honest Look which I just got in the mail and am looking forward to reading. Jenny was the 2008 editor of Open Laboratory, yet we have not met in real life yet – we will, finally, in January.

Maryn McKenna is a freelance journalist, author and blogger. She blogs at Superbug and tweets as @marynmck. Her latest book is the excellent Superbug.

Val Jones is the CEO of Better Health, LLC, a health education company devoted to providing scientifically accurate health information to consumers. She also blogs at Science-Based Medicine and she tweets as @drval.

Janet Stemwedel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. She is one of the few people to come to all five ScienceOnline meetings, and one of only two to actually lead a session or speak every single year! She blogs on Adventures in Ethics and Science and tweets as @docfreeride. I interviewed Janet for the blog a couple of years ago.

Sandra Porter is the President of Digital World Biology. She blogs at Discovering Biology in a Digital World and tweets as @digitalbio

Stephanie Zvan is a science fiction and fantasy writer. She blogs at Almost Diamonds and tweets as @szvan. I interviewed Stephanie for the blog last year.

Maria Droujkova is the Director of Natural Math in Cary, NC and she tweets as @mariadroujkova. Check out her blog interview from a few months ago.

Dave Mosher is a Reporter for Wired Science and he tweets as @davemosher.

Evelyn Lynge is a Geologist and is the Co-President of the Jacksonville branch of The American Association of University Women and one of the people who has been to every one of our conferences so far.

Alexandra Levitt is a student at Duke University and a HASTAC scholar.

As you all probably know, Miss Baker from Staten Island Academy is coming to ScienceOnline2011 and will, for the third year in a row, bring eight high school students with her to do a panel. As a part of their preparation for the event, the students are interviewing some of the participants who will attend ScienceOnline 2011. The first student to do so was Naseem who interviewed me. Go and read the interview now, post comments and support the students! I was floored at the quality of questions Naseem asked – she made me sweat and think hard about each question. I answered the last one quite briefly as I am assuming Miss Baker would appreciate me not inserting too much political opinion into her science classroom blog.

As I do every year, I will do a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

John Hawks is a Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He blogs and tweets.

Miriam Goldstein is a Graduate Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. She blogs on Deep Sea News and tweets. Miriam did a Q&A for my blog back in 2009.

Carin Bondar is a Freelance Writer, Biologist, Mother, Filmmaker, Science Loving Gal, blogger and Twitterer.

Taylor Dobbs is a Student of Journalism at Northeastern University. He blogs and tweets.

Kiyomi Deards is an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She blogs and tweets.

Eric Michael Johnson is a PhD Student in history of science at the University of British Columbia (after getting a Masters in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke). He blogs everywhere and is on Twitter.

Arikia Millikan is the Community Manager at Wired Science Blogs and Haiti Rewired (after doing the same at Scienceblogs.com and Psychology Today Blogs). She is also a research assistant for Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight. She blogs and tweets. I interviewed Arikia in 2009.

Martin Fenner is a Clinical Fellow at Hannover Medical School in Germany. He blogs at Gobbledygook and tweets.

Alice Bell is a senior teaching fellow in the Science Communication Group at Imperial College, London as well as a visiting academic at Warwick’s Department of Sociology. And she blogs (occasionally also here and here) and tweets.

Joshua Rosenau is the Projects and Policy Director at the National Center for Science Education. He blogs on Thoughts From Kansas and tweets.

As I do every year, I will do a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Glendon Mellow is a freelance artist and illustrator. He blogs at The Flying Trilobite and administers the ArtEvolved blog network. He is also on Twitter.

Psi Wavefunction is the online pseudonym of an Undergraduate Research Assistant and aspiring protistologist and artist at the University of British Columbia who blogs at Skeptic Wonder and tweets as @psiwavefunction.

Jason Priem is a PhD student in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, studying science communication – from scientific publishing to spread of science information on online social networks. He blogs and tweets.

Darlene Cavalier is a writer for the Discover Magazine, founder of Science Cheerleader and Science For Citizens where she also blogs, and is on Twitter as @scicheer.

Sara Wood is the Director of Product Strategy at the Public Library of Science and she tweets.

Kevin Zelnio is a PhD student at UNC Wilmington and Research Assistant/Lecturer in the Center for Marine Science there. He blogs at Deep Sea News and The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio and is active on Twitter.

Sheril Kirshenbaum is a writer and a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-author of Unscientific America and the author of forthcoming The Science of Kissing. She blogs at The Intersection and tweets.

Kristi Holmes is a Bioinformaticist at the Washington University School of Medicine and the National Outreach Coordinator for VIVO. And she is on Twitter.

Marie-Claire Shanahan is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She blogs and tweets.

Steve Silberman is a freelance science writer and journalist in California. He is one of the new PLoS Bloggers at Neurotribes and he tweets as @stevesilberman.