ScienceOnline Vancouver
ScienceOnline Vancouver Begins!
About this event:
Created by Catherine
Took place on 19 April, 2012 from 19:00 to 21:00
Science World at TELUS World of Science
1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver, BC
Canada V6A 3Z7
If you missed the event, you can catch up at Resources: Where do you get your science?
SCIENCE ONLINE VANCOUVER #1
Where do you get your science?
Practically every day, the internet gives us another option for finding scientific information. In addition to peer-reviewed journals and mainstream media, we now read blogs and wield heaps of social media tools like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube. More sources publishing more content more frequently! How do we keep up? How do we know where to go for relevant, accurate science?
Our speakers, UBC microbiologist and #arseniclife investigator Rosie Redfield, a local reporter and a mediator/moderator will ignite a conversation about finding science online.
A little bit more about our panelists:
- Rosie Redfield – Named Nature’s most influential person of 2011, this associate professor of microbiology at UBC hit science fame through her blog RRResearch disputing NASA’s claim life exists in arsenic.
- Lisa Johnson - Multiplatform journalist with a keen interest in environment and science stories. She enjoys digging, storytelling, and finding context in breaking news.
- Anthony Floyd – aerospace research engineer with a PhD in Civil Engineering from UBC. Although strictly a digital immigrant, Anthony grew up with technology as technology grew up. He is quite active in social media. Anthony’s a proud dad to two boys, year-round bike commuter, opinionated political observer, and Maritimer-in-exile.
If you can’t attend in person, follow the conversations on Twitter using the #SoVan hashtag! The LIVESTREAM is at http://new.livestream.com/scioWC/soVAN1
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Sad that I can’t make it to this one. Looking forward to the next, and wishing you all the best with this initiative.
-Marisa
Great job Catherine, Peter, and Sarah. Looks awesome! Unfortunately, won’t be able to make the inaugural event, as I’ve got to invigilate a final exam. Will try and send science scout-ish folks over though.
Hi all,
I’m excited that Dr Rosie Redfield will be talking about open science, she’s an excellent and well-spoken advocate. I had the pleasure recently of doing a mini-documentary about her arsenic life work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdYL9-myqo). During the interview she said a lot of interesting things about her open research approach, but we couldn’t include them in the video (I wrote some more about it on my blog (http://hayleydunning.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/dr-rosie-redfield-her-pink-hair-and-challenging-nasa/)
Anyway, I hope you don’t see this as self-promotion, I don’t really mean it to be, just though I’d provide some interesting context! It should be a great evening, looking forward to the dialogue.
- Hayley