ScienceSeeker Awards have been announced earlier today. If you are not sure what this is, ScienceSeeker is the main portal for collecting, connecting and filtering science writing online, especially on science blogs (Note: it is a project of ScienceOnline of which I am one of the co-founders and co-chairmen). It is also the main tool [...]

Super-blogger Scicurious is taking off the mask. Metaphorically speaking.Her full statement is over at her Scientific American blog.I've known Scicurious as an Internet friend for years now, even met her at ScienceOnline, and gone running with her, and I never knew "real" name. She was totally cool about the use of the pseudonym, politely but firmly protective of her other identity. But it's still very nice to meet Bethany Brookshire. It feels, just a little bit, like she's come out of ... […]

The Blogfather himself, Bora Zivkovic of Scientific American, ScienceOnline, OpenLab and circadian-rhythm-awesomeness is coming to Toronto next week!Bora will be giving a talk at my alma mater York University, about Science and the New Media Ecosystem from 2:00-3:30. Here's the deets:Science and the New Media EcosystemBora Zivkovic, Blog Editor at Scientific American Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:00 – 3:30 pmPaul Delaney Gallery, Room 320, Bethune CollegeYork University, TorontoMap Abstract:The […]

Anton Zuiker, co-founder of ScienceOnline and communications director for the Duke Department of Medicine, is one of the nicest, kindest people you can meet. Annoyingly, while thanking people for being generous and kind, he manages to be more generous, kind, … Continue reading →

Today we have a guest post from Andrew Collins. We met Andrew while doing fieldwork on the streets of NYC and have been impressed by the innovative work he’s doing to improve student engagement in science research and conservation. Andrew recently attended ScienceOnline Teen, and shares his experience below. Enjoy! Beaver! Fox! They called out. An Owl! Looks like a Coyote! As the camera trap videos continued to play, more and more species took form. Yet while the students alertly watched on, […]

From the ScienceOnline website: As a young nonprofit, we are charged with demonstrating broad public support for our organization so that we can maintain our 501(c)(3) status. So, in addition to seeking larger individual donations, and applying for grants, we need donations from a broad donor base. Here’s how we can do that. We are [...]The post ScienceOnline Needs our Help appeared first on Stay Curious.

I am pleased to announce the return of Blue Pints, our Google+ hangout discussion series ! Join us at 6:00 P.M. EST on Monday 4/29! The Southern Fried Scientist will be discussing the Sea Leveler and other DIY projects related to ocean instrumentation, and I’ll be talking about ScienceOnline Oceans! We’ll share the link [...]

I have exciting news about ScienceOnline Oceans to share! General registration will start in a little over two weeks. As this is a little different from traditional scientific conferences, I’d like to explain the process in some detail. Registration  Registration will take place in four stages. 1) Session moderators and workshop leaders. If your proposal for a [...]

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Hi Julie,I hope you have an awesome time at Science Online Teen tomorrow! I hope you get asked lots of questions about your presentation, Dogs: Science in Your Living Room. It's so true that dogs make for a sensational gateway to scientific enquiry - and they're right there, in front of us!If anyone happens to ask you "What's it like being a scientific canine behavioural researcher?", be sure to tell them to tune in to the @realscientists Twitter project from Sunday (or […]

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During my visit to Tanzania in Summer 2012, I began a series of posts sharing my experiences in Tanzania from A to Z. C is for Cell Phone Technology I attended the Blogging from Developing Nations Panel at ScienceOnline 2012, to prepare for my visit to Tanzania.  I wanted to get an idea of what [...]

If I close my eyes, I can just conjure a hazy vision of the copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that I had as a child. It was a large, hardcover book, with a pen and watercolor painting of browns and yellow-oranges serving as the cover art. The top right corner of the book was worn, [...]

[caption id="attachment_4267" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Timmy. By Timmy and (C) Nathaniel Gold."] [/caption] [It's with great pleasure the Symbiartic team is featuring this Guest Post by illustrator Nathaniel Gold. Gold is the artist behind the wonderful illustrations found on The Primate Diaries by Eric Michael Johnson, and has twice been featured as Image of the Week ( once , twice ) here on the Scientific American Blog Network. I was excited that at ScienceOnline2012, […]

Will Smith – Miami by GuenZouMark it on you calendars October 11-13th IT WILL BE OWN in Miami. Interested in the intersection of the ocean ecosystem and the digital online landscape? Then you need to attend!! A great team is assembled to pull this bad boy off including David Shiffman, aka Mr. Shark. This . . . → Read More: ScienceOnlineOceans

I had the privilege of meeting Joe Hanson at Science Online 2013. He continues to produce some of the best explainer videos I know of out there on the tubes. Here's one on a topic I've covered before - the microbiome!

I’ve been playing around with ImpactStory, which I learned about at Science Online and was also featured at the recent AAAS meeting. I like it. In playing with it, it occurred to me that there is only one reason we need this, and tools like it. Because we need to make decisions relatively fast. With tenure, promotion, and funding decisions typically are trying to evaluate research done in the last couple of years. If it weren’t for that, I’d wager we’d just use citations to […]

Jacquelyn Gill at The Contemplative Mammoth offers 5 key tips to answer: How can scientists actively engage with the media? Some of us have been banging our heads to the wall trying to make inroads. Inspired by the SciJourn misfire at ScienceOnline 2013, a handful of us decided to meet On Air to hash it out.  [...]

Do you ever get to the end of a whirlwind trip and wish you could actually remember what you did? I’m guessing many of you who attended ScienceOnline2013 have forgotten as much awesome as you remember about the conference. What … Continue reading →

The #scio13ID session is here! It was a great session thanks to a brilliant, brave, thoughtful audience. Watch live streaming video from scienceonline at livestream.com

Back at the end of January, I co-moderated the session “Blogging for the long haul” with Scicurious at Science Online 2013. The session went very well, judging from the audience feedback we got. It is now available for your viewing pleasure here, along side many other excellent sessions Watch live streaming video from scienceonline at livestream.com The masks that Scicurious and I are wearing shall remain unexplained.

By Carol Clark“New technologies are changing the way we do math research,” says Emory mathematician David Zureik-Brown.Zureik-Brown gave a talk at the recent ScienceOnline conference about MathOverflow, a web site that he co-founded while he was graduate student at Berkeley, along with colleagues Anton Geraschenko and Scott Morrison.MathOverflow provides a dynamic forum to more efficiently solve problems, by allowing users to post questions and quickly receive answers and advice from a […]

Eva has been delighting us all recently with descriptions of her trips to spectacular water engineering trips to locations like Haarlemmermeer and Hoover Dam. At the end of January, I went on my own trip to see a water engineering … Continue reading →

One of the things that’s been rattling around in my head since ScienceOnline back in January is the need for a greater diversity of voices in science communication generally. I don’t mean diversity in the sense of racial and gender make-up of the people doing the communication, though that would be nice, I mean a…

Even if you don't like the music and the hype around Psy this video is fun to watch.It was created by Carin Bondar featuring attendees of this years ScienceOnline conference. ScienceOnline is a non-profit organization that facilitates conversations, community, and collaborations at the intersection of Science and the Web. You can guess why I find that very interesting. I came across the video on Jonathan Eisen's blog and he is also in it for a few seconds. Hilarious!

darkdemandingchild: It’s Ok to be Smart’s Joe Hanson busting some moves at ScienceOnline for the ScioMusicVideo2013. He said he hoped it never became a gif, so naturally, I made it a gif. ;]Here’s the post [x] and here’s the video [x]! :D I can neither confirm nor deny that this is me.

ScioMusicVideo2013 Just a quick and silly reminder that scientists can be fun, in the form of a music video put together by all the science writers and communicators who I hung out with at ScienceOnline back in January. During the three day conference, Carin Bondar was walking around and having people dance out this bit and that … and this is what came out the other side. Yep … a Gangnam Style remix featuring some of the best bloggers and science folks on the internet. You’ve been […]

I have a few important updates to share about ScienceOnline Oceans! For those of you who haven’t yet heard, ScienceOnline Oceans is a conference (affiliated with the NC-based ScienceOnline) that will explore how marine scientists and conservationists can use the internet for collaboration, education and outreach. The meeting will take place October 11-13th at [...]

Why should students blog about science?  Don’t they have enough to do already? Last Thursday night I participated in a panel discussion about science blogging (see the video) at ScienceOnline Seattle (#scioSEA)(video) and mentioned that we have two students blogging for us at Bio-Link.  A question I saw afterward via Twitter, from @NurhafizPiers was this: what…

I posted only 4 times in February!!! That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions). I promise there will be more next month! ScienceOnline2013 – interview with Karyn Traphagen [...]