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#BoraZUofA Linkfest: A collection of the sites and posts referenced in Bora’s talks
Scientific American blog editor Bora Zivkovic‘s visit to the University of Alberta was a wonderful whirlwind of talks on science education, science communication, open science, peer review and the scientific publishing industry. I’ve summarized his talks in an overview of the week. If you’re interested in a more in-depth look, Bora has also shared a list of links to the sites, posts and people he mentioned or used in his talks (or intended to use in some cases). It’s a terrific guide to exploring these issues online.
How To Blog/Tweet a Conference:
How To Blog a Conference
On the challenges of conference blogging
What a difference a year makes: tweeting from Cold Spring Harbor
How to present at a conference mindful of Twitter backchatter:
How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists
On organizing and/or participating in a Conference in the age of Twitter
Icons to put on your slides and posters:
Creating a “blog-safe” icon for conference presentations: suggestions?
CameronNeylon – Slideshare: Permissions
Andy and Shirley’s new ONS Logos
A good recent blog post about the changes in the publishing industry (good links within and at the bottom):
Free Science, One Paper at a Time
Open Notebook Science:
Open Notebook Science
UsefulChem Project
Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?
A little bit of historical perspective on science, science journalism, blogging and social media (and you can endlessly follow the links within links within links within these posts):
The line between science and journalism is getting blurry….again
Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One’s Own
The Future of Science
Visualizing Enlightenment- Era Social Networks
“There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on the future of journalism
A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
New science blog networks mushroom to life
Science Blogging Networks: What, Why and How
Web breaks echo-chambers, or, ‘Echo-chamber’ is just a derogatory term for ‘community’ – my remarks at #AAASmtg
Is education what journalists do?
All about Stories: How to Tell Them, How They’re Changing, and What They Have to Do with Science
Telling science stories…wait, what’s a “story”?
Blogs: face the conversation
Identity – what is it really?
Books: ‘Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science’ by Michael Nielsen
#scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote. http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/12/the_shock_value_of_science_blo.php
Where to find science blogs (and perhaps submit your own blog for inclusion/aggregation):
A blog about science blogging, especially for scientists – well worth digging through the archives:
A blog post about science that was inspired by a previous post on the same blog:
A blog post about the way a previous blog post put together a researcher and a farmer into a scientific collaboration:
A blog post demonstrating how to blog about one’s own publication:
Comments, Notes and Ratings on: Stalking the Fourth Domain in Metagenomic Data: Searching for, Discovering, and Interpreting Novel, Deep Branches in Marker Gene Phylogenetic Trees
Another example:
Comments, Notes and Ratings on: Order in Spontaneous Behavior
Paper explained in video at SciVee.tv
Collection of links showing how Arsenic Life paper was challenged on blogs:
A blog post about a scientific paper that resulted from a hypothesis first published in a previous blog post:
A post with unpublished data, and how people still do not realize they can and should cite blog posts (my own posts have been cited a few times, usually by review papers):
Good blogs to follow the inside business of science and publishing:
DrugMonkey and DrugMonkey
Who says that only young scientists are bloggers (you probably studied from his textbook):
My homepage (with links to other online spaces) and my blog:
Homepage
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
How to find me on Scientific American:
Scientific American and its blogs:
Scientific American homepage
Scientific American blogs
Scientific American Facebook page
Scientific American official Twitter account
Scientific American MIND on Twitter
Scientific American blogs on Twitter
Why blog?
Science Blogs Are Good For You
To blog or not to blog, not a real choice there…
Bloggers unite
Scooped by a blog
Scientists Enter the Blogosphere
“Online, Three Years Are Infinity”
Studying Scientific Discourse on the Web Using Bibliometrics: A Chemistry Blogging Case Study
The Message Reigns Over the Medium
Networking, Scholarship and Service: The Place of Science Blogging in Academia
Great series of post about scientists using blogs and social media by Christie Wilcox:
Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It’s Our Job
Social Media for Scientists Part 2: You Do Have Time.
Social Media for Scientists Part 2.5: Breaking Stereotypes
Social Media For Scientists Part 3: Win-Win
Why use Twitter?
What is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It.
Twitter: What’s All the Chirping About?
Social media for science: The geologic perspective
Why Twitter can be the Next Big Thing in Scientific Collaboration
How and why scholars cite on Twitter
Researchers! Join the Twitterati! Or perish!
Twitter for Scientists
PLoS ONE on Twitter and FriendFeed
Some good Twitter lists and collections/apps:
Attendees at ScienceOnline2012
Scientific American editors, writers and contributors
SciencePond
The Tweeted Times
Some interesting Twitter hashtags:
#scio12 (chatter about ScienceOnline conference, and discussions within that community)
#scio13 (people already talking about next year’s event)
#SITT (Science In The Triangle, NC)
#madwriting (writing support community)
#wherethesciencehappens (pictures of locations where science happens)
#icanhazpdf (asking for and receiving PDFs of papers hidden behind paywalls)
#scimom – scientists and mothers and scientist-mothers.
#sciwri – science writing
#myresearch
#sciart – science and art
#histsci – history of science
#IamScience – a great initiative, see: original blog post, Storify, Tumblr, Kickstarter – and see the related Tumblr: This Is What A Scientist Looks Like
#histsci – history of science
#IamScience – a great initiative, see: original blog post, Storify, Tumblr, Kickstarter – and see the related Tumblr: This Is What A Scientist Looks Like
The Open Laboratory anthology of science blogging:
The Open Laboratory – what, how and why
The Open Laboratory at Lulu.com
The Open Laboratory 2011 updates
A couple of Big Announcements about The Open Laboratory
ScienceOnline conferences:
ScienceOnline2011
ScienceOnline2012
ScienceOnline2011 programming wiki
ScienceOnline2012 programming wiki
ScienceOnline2012 homepage
ScienceOnline2012 official blog
ScienceOnline2012 coverage blog
ScienceOnline2012 organizing wiki
ScienceOnline2012 blog and media coverage
ScienceOnline2013 organizing wiki
ScienceOnline participants’ interviews
Probably the best and most current book on science communication for scientists
is ‘Explaining Research‘ by Dennis Meredith – see the book homepage and the associated blog for a wealth of additional information and updates.
Probably the best book for preparing oral (and to a smaller degree poster) presentations is Dazzle ‘Em With Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation by Robert Anholt.
For posters, dig through the archives of this blog:
Better Posters
Educational blogs-Miss Baker:
http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
http://blogging4biology.edublogs.org/
Education, outreach, citizen science:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/education/
http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/
http://scistarter.com/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/
Are journalists educators:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2011/10/12/is-education-what-journalists-do/
Basic concepts:
http://evolvingthoughts.net/basic-concepts-in-science/
http://explainer.net/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/section.cfm?id=ask-the-experts
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One response to “#BoraZUofA Linkfest: A collection of the sites and posts referenced in Bora’s talks”
[…] We opened the week on Monday with a visit to my senior undergraduate science education class. My students were just about to begin a term project using science blogs as inspiration for science teaching. Bora talked to them about different types of blogs (e.g., journalistic blogs like Not Exactly Rocket Science and open science blogs like RRResearch) and the diversity of writers from academic scientists (e.g., Sean Carroll), to graduate students (e.g., Jason Goldman) and professional writers (e.g., Jennifer Ouellette). In this diverse landscape, they were particularly interested in how to assess credibility in blogs and sought strategies both for themselves and their future students. Bora led them through an interesting discussion of how to check for credentials and publications, how to look at blog networks for credibility and how to follow trails of trust from one trusted source to another. He also highlighted exemplary uses of blogs for science education such as Stacy Baker’s classroom blogging and sites that connect researchers and citizen scientists, like SciStarter. They left excited both about their term assignment (when does that happen?) and about the possibilities for using online resources in their future teaching careers. (If you’re interested in more, Bora has shared a full list of all of the sites and posts he referenced during his talks.) […]