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2013-05-20 21:38:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Announcing the newest member of the ScienceOnline event series - ScienceOnline Climate! (http://climate.scienceonline.com)

When: August 15-17, 2013
Where: Washington DC
What & Why: Two days of plenaries, breakout sessions, and hands-on workshops to explore the intersection of climate science, communication, and the web.
How: It's all driven by you. Ideas? Questions? Contribute to shaping this conference by heading to http://scioclimate.wikispaces.com

2013-05-17 17:36:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

On the heels of the big "97% scientific consensus on climate change" news splash this week, +Andrew Revkin just published a post about the other science gap: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/the-other-climate-science-gap/?smid=tw-dotearth&seid=auto

+Dan Kahan is quoted, saying
Climate scientists aren’t the only ones whose message never gets through. The “science of science communication consensus” that deficits in knowledge & rationality are not the problem — 99.9999999% agree! — never does either, & to the very people it should be of value too, viz., those trying to promote constructive engagement w/ climate science. Is there someone studying that science communication problem???!

Do go read Dan's whole post, including the comment thread, it'suseful: http... more »

2013-05-16 17:20:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Yesterday I talked about the importance of a community of practice for science communication - the idea that we need a strong network to share successes and failures, to support each other, and to challenge each other to be better. (http://bit.ly/scicommunity)

One of those challenges was to get familiar with the research literature on science communication, and the scioSciComm community is one attempt to do so.

Hope you'll join us for virtual journal clubs and more. 

2013-05-16 17:08:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Yesterday, I had a guest post at Nature's SoapBox Science blog. It is a bit of a manifesto, and I hope it pushes us forward. I was specifically thinking of this group (and I mention it). 

Would love to hear the thoughts and ideas this may have sparked for you. http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2013/05/15/science-communication-at-a-tipping-point#more-4362

For more on what I mean by 'community of practice' - see Falk et al (2011) http://pus.sagepub.com/content/21/7/865 (paywall, sorry)

2013-05-10 16:43:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"37 sections of chain-link fence embedded with translucent sections of Plexiglas. The suspended waveforms capture and reflect nearly every light source in the gallery creating a fractalized rainbow of color that changes quality depending on the time of day."

2013-05-07 22:21:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

We'll be putting the tough questions to ourselves: why are we doing this? where do we want to be a year from now? what is our most effective path forward. Come prepared to brainstorm and share

2013-05-03 22:58:14 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

You may have seen this in my other channels, but our commentary piece came out in PLOS Biology this week (http://bit.ly/COMPASSreachingoutsci - I'm the corresponding author).

It's a Community Page, which means the point is to talk about who COMPASS is and what we do, but we wanted to go broader than that. We wrote the paper to share our own lessons in scicomm over the past decade and kick off a bigger discussion about where we go from here.  

I organized a mini blog carnival for scientists to talk about their personal stories, experiences, and tough lessons in #scicomm. So far, there are contributions from +Alan Townsend, +Chris Buddle, Don Boesch, +Dawn Wright, +Heather Leslie, Isabelle Côté, Jim Cloern, +Jessica Hellmann, Max Moritz, Ryan Kelly, +Simon Donner, +Steve Palumbi and more to come.

You can watch this unfold on twitter with the #reachingoutscihasht... more »

2013-04-23 21:24:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Attention 'science of science communication' fans - I'm moving the   #scioSciComm  discussion over to the community page: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/100372409143190115663  
If you want to see reminders, updates, and discussion on this, please join the group.

We're gearing up for our next virtual journal club, scheduled for May 7. Time to start proposing papers you'd like to discuss. 

2013-04-22 16:33:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Hi all,
Have been toying with scheduling, and want to float Tuesday May 7 at 4:30pm PT for our next hangout. Unless I hear a howl of dismay, we'll go with that. I'll confirm on Wednesday and we need to start selecting our next paper.

2013-04-18 20:01:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"what strikes Prof Heilbron about the letters to Margrethe, whom Bohr married the following year, is the intellectual character of their exchanges." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22174013

2013-04-11 00:30:59 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Had some fun with my latest blog post, asking the question: do scientists have a different news diet than average people? Does it matter if they do? http://bit.ly/XsDq2M

We have a little bit of data from surveys we collect in advance of each communications training. The researchers I know best are NPR/NYT/DailyShow fans, and this dinky little analysis raised so many fascinating questions. If you guys know anyone who studies this or would like to, please introduce me!

2013-04-10 19:27:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Oh, I needed this today: 

2013-04-10 05:57:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Super excited to announce that +Popular Science has launched #CrowdGrant : a crowdfunding partnership with +RocketHub to make your brilliant, world-changing project ideas a reality.

See http://popsci.com/crowdgrant for details. You have until June 15 to submit (which you can do here: http://www.rockethub.com/partners/popularscience/).

So, what are you waiting for? Those liquid nitrogen-powered ice cream trucks, DIY biology labs, swimmer-rescuing drones, and petsitting robots won't build themselves...

2013-04-08 01:05:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

There has been quite a bit of enthusiasm lately around data-based communication strategies. Please join me and the ScienceOnline community in our new monthly virtual journal club format, as we collectively explore the science communication literature.

If you'd like to catch up, see the archive of our first event here: http://bit.ly/scioSciComm1vid

And it's time to begin planning Round 2. Come weigh in on your preferences for dates and the topic!

2013-04-07 23:35:54 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Which day would you prefer for our next journal club hangout?
+1 the day you prefer or make your case for alternatives!

Please note: We will most likely keep the time as 4:30pm PT

2013-04-07 23:32:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Our first hangout was Wednesday March 20, focused on Anderson et al. (2012) "Crude Comments and Concern: Online Incivility's Effect on Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies" paper. 

Watch the hangout video here: http://bit.ly/scioSciComm1vid
You can find more on twitter using our hashtag #scioSciComm  (and inadvertently, #scioSciComms) as well as the author's hashtag for the paper more broadly, #nastyeffect 

2013-04-04 15:52:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Burning up Twitter yesterday: Tabula -- "Upload a PDF, get back tabular CSV data. Poof!" <http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/> (e.g. our own share, <https://twitter.com/openscience/status/319577314369343489>) Thank you, +Manuel Aristarán and the +ProPublica + +Knight Foundation + +Mozilla #opennews gang. As +Peter Murray-Rust noted: "We are doing something complementary (#AMI2) at http://bitbucket.org/petermr/pdf2svg and ../svg2xml. taking whole PDF articles and breaking them into smaller bits. We should be in a position to provide you with extracted tables in a few days. See also http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/03/14/ami2-we-report-conversion-of-pdf-to-scientific-xml-at-beyond-the-pdf2-btpdf2-and-ask-for-your-involvement/" #btpdf2   #scholrev #openscience  

2013-04-02 23:53:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Our 2013 AAAS meeting talks on science and social media are available online at http://ow.ly/jFbXR @nerdychristie @scicurious @carlzimmer 

2013-04-02 00:51:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Really enjoyed this piece by +Emily Finke - "There is a profound ignorance in “common knowledge”. Mine was in assuming I knew how an engine worked. And my ignorance wasn’t fixed by a “how car engines work” post. It was fixed by a somewhat-unrelated intellectual tangent. I would have been horribly affronted had someone told me that I don’t understand this huge force of modern life, because what kind of idiot doesn’t understand cars?" http://www.thisview.org/?p=107

This is what inspires me to think hard about information deficit model approaches to science communication. 

2013-04-02 00:30:44 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 8 +1s)

Really excited to start talking about this project publicly! http://bit.ly/GradSciCommSurvey

In short, I'm a co-PI on a new NSF project, tasked with surveying the current state of communication training for science grad students across the country, and then bringing together the best people to talk about how to systemically improve it.

We're inspired by the unmet demand we see, and the fabulous grassroots and institutional efforts to create change.

Calling all grad students who have taken a course or workshop, and all those who organize them: please get in touch or add your data to our brief survey here: http://bit.ly/GradSciCommSurvey

2013-03-28 17:17:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Tonight is the March +ScienceOnlineSeattle meet-up. I'm excited to learn a lot more about lifehacking, and all the ways in which we are seeing technology & social media influence behavior change and habit formation. Panelists are outstanding and it's a great day to geek out together.

Join us for drinks & snacks, if you can, or join the livestream & twittter conversation using our hashtag, #scioSEA. See you tonight!

2013-03-22 23:49:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This month we ask, "How’s that New Year’s Resolution working out for you?"
Join us for snacks, drinks, and a great panel discussion on how we can better track, understand, and change our lives with the tools and support provided by social media. We'll explore what are the latest & greatest toys, the ethical and philosophical questions and hand, and the best practical advice for these undertakings.

Snacks and mingling at 5:30pm
Panel at 6:00pm
Socializing afteward.

If you can't join in person, join via livestream at www.ScienceOnline.com/Live and keep you eyes on the #scioSEA  hashtag.

2013-03-21 18:44:26 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Hello everyone! Last night I hosted our first Science of Science Communication hangout. Thanks to all who participated for a really interesting discussion and proof of concept for virtual journal clubs. The video is here - http://bit.ly/scioSciComm1vid, and see twitter hashtags #scioscicomm and #scioscicomms (sorry for confusion).

I'd like to open up a debrief discussion and talk about how we might improve format, delivery, etc. Please share your thoughts here: 

2013-03-21 18:20:05 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"While political science research is most immediately affected, at risk is any and all research in any and all disciplines funded by the NSF. The amendment makes all scientific research vulnerable to the whims of political pressure."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/tom-coburn-national-science-foundation_n_2921081.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

2013-03-20 04:36:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Brushing up on Google+ hangouts on air logistics for tomorrow's #scioscicomm journal club - https://plus.google.com/u/1/events/ci5k0u8k4o4tf8n69s1erso66os

Deep thanks +Fraser Cain his fantastic post https://plus.google.com/+FraserCain/posts/PaeeynDx34L

However:
"When you know when your event is going to happen, you'll want to schedule a public event so people can put it into their calendars. Make sure you select Advanced options -> On Air Event. Then invite the public to the event. http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/events/
Make sure you don't choose "Hangout", that will create a trap that puts people into the wrong location."

Oh Google+... sigh. 

2013-03-13 03:07:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Added photos to #scioSciComm Journal Club Hangout #1.

2013-03-14 00:12:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

This event was deleted by a calendar syncing problem. We're still on as planned at 4:30pm Pacific Time Wednesday March 20. A small group of us will be on live video conference - everyone else will watch & chat via Google+ Hangouts on Air, and we hope to rotate some of the video spots open. Please invite anyone in your circles who you think might enjoy joining.

We are reading and discussing Anderson et al (2012) "Crude Comments and Concern: Online Incivility's Effect on Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies" 

Google+ Events do not currently allow threaded comments except on photos, so I've added two: one for questions about logistics and one to begin collecting questions for discussion. I'll add more as we need them. 

Looking forward to this experiment in the communication of the science of science communication! :)

2013-03-05 05:05:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Added photos to #scio SciComm & Social Marketing Journal Club.

2013-03-05 00:13:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Frustrated with strange limitations of Google+ Events - no comment threads? Why?

Anyone have workarounds or ideas on how to support the conversation we're trying to have here: https://plus.google.com/events/c8n0e4m6lhrbqt7lqd4ga8k49k0

2013-03-02 23:20:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

At +ScienceOnline  on my session on the Deficit Model, I made a joke about being a recovering Deficit Model addict ("Hi, I'm Liz...)

Yesterday +Karen James  called me on it: https://twitter.com/kejames/status/307966117530447873 We've been talking and DMing on Twitter. She is right - it was a cheap joke. I like to think of myself as savvy and sensitive; a good ally. But I just hadn't thought about my own privilege in this.

It's good to stop and think, and make course corrections when needed. Thanks to Karen, apologies for an ill-considered analogy, and my promise to be more thoughtful in the future.

2013-01-29 21:22:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

""If you're not on offense, you're on defense.  And if you're on defense, you're losing."  In short, I've learned that you need a strategy to "win." And sadly, for all the brilliance that #scio13 brings to bear, I think we're still really short on strategy." - http://itsnotalecture.blogspot.com/2013/01/scio13-bring-on-strategy.html

Looking forward to catching up with +David Wescott & +Emily Willingham at +ScienceOnline and hearing their thoughts on scicomm strategies. 

2013-01-25 20:54:41 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

In less than a week, +ScienceOnline 2013 will be in full swing! If you aren't going to be in Raleigh-Durham, that doesn't mean you can't still be a part of the conversation. 

Check out http://scienceonline.com/scienceonline2013/scienceonline2013-watch-parties to find a watch party near you and the full list of sessions to be livestreamed. 

If you're in the Pacific NW, come join our +ScienceOnlineSeattle watch party and see my session next Thursday! http://scienceonlineseattle.org/events/2013/01/scienceonline-2013-watch-party-the-science-deficit-model-131-and-altmetrics-21/

2012-12-11 17:25:17 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Talked at a lot about Google+ at #AGU12  but almost exclusively used twitter while I was there. Whipped up a blog post on the flight back about my favorite ways people use live-tweeting to enhance science meetings: http://compassblogs.org/blog/2012/12/10/wading-into-a-conference-tweet-stream/

2012-10-12 18:41:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Lots of great info in here:
"excavation of scientific papers' usually hidden prepublication trajectories from journal to journal"

** Nature and Science publish a greater percentage of papers previously submitted elsewhere than lower impact journals
** 75% of papers get published in the journal to which they're first submitted
** 3–6 years after publication, resubmitted papers are more highly cited on average than papers accepted first try in the same journal

So here's some evidence that peer review works, but it's not evidence that the current way we do it is the best way. I'm waiting for an analysis looking at pre-vs. post publication review on article impact metrics.

2012-10-12 16:27:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I have two corgis - Charlie and Eddie - and while they can be utter nightmares, there is something irresistible about those giant ears and stubby little legs. Thought I'd start sharing them with you guys 

2012-10-09 12:21:02 (13 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

In a few hours, I'll be leading introducing a group of faculty at Oregon State University to social media and helping them think through how it is shaping science communication.

I'm collecting stories, pieces of advice, recommended links... anything you'd like to share to welcome these guys into our world and challenge them to make the time and mental space to embrace it.

Please share here in the comments, send me a note directly, or tweet at us using the hashtag #COMPASSmtg. We'll get going around 10am PT today. Thanks!

2012-09-18 00:25:56 (3 comments, 8 reshares, 1 +1s)

What happens to your data, research, and online identity after you die?
For our fall kickoff event, ScienceOnlineSeattle will dig into the intricacies of data and social media archiving, intellectual property, virtual estate planning, and other issues at the nexus of science, the internet, and human mortality.

Join us in person, via a Google+ hangout, or on twitter with the hashtag #soSEA
Please be sure to RSVP at www.ScienceOnlineSeattle.org

2012-08-24 20:09:30 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Who are your favorite environmental journalists working in the Bay Area?

2012-08-22 22:29:26 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Ohhhhh NO! 

This is hilarious and terrible and heartreading all at the same time.
"The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic, he says."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921 

2012-08-21 23:24:49 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Hello to everyone who's recently added me!

What's at the top of my mind right now is the Ocean Health Index - http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/

I'm really proud to be a collaborator on the Nature paper that came out last week (never thought I'd get to say that!) - it's unfortunately behind the paywall, but you can see the abstract here:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11397.html I'm at your service if you'd like to request a reprint ;), and all the data layers are available from http://ohi.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.html. One of my favorite pieces is the interactive visual by +Scientific American, where you can browse the scores for every coastal country in the world and see how the sub-components of the Index fit together: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-ocean-health-index-shows-clean-water-poor-management

2012-07-30 23:39:29 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Inspired by our June +SciLingual hangout and +Jerry Nguyen's #leavingacademia  posts lately, I just posted my thoughts and some hard-won advice to those who think that science communication may be their career path.

Would LOVE to continue the conversation here, there, or on twitter. If we talk all the time, if we're total strangers, I don't care. This is very dear to my heart - I want to hear your thoughts and help if I can.

2012-07-11 21:37:14 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Focused on "science of science communication" this week. These papers are occasionally hilarious!

"The abstracts were fictitious... The first described a dry article about research on structure-mapping and systematicity in linguistics, whereas the second described an article about the various issues involved in capital punishment policy. All but 2 participants chose to read the capital punishment article." Ok so far so good

"In response to the 2 less cooperative participants," What?! They're cooperating! They're just geeks!

"the experimenter fumbled through papers and folders, cursed a research assistant for having misplaced the linguistics article, and asked whether the participant would consider read ing the capital punishment article instead."

So, is someone out there teaching Improv for... more »

2012-07-05 23:03:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

In yet another genius +Ed Yong post, my jaw dropped at this line:

"In the US Civil war, soldiers were sometimes contaminated with P.luminescens, which gave their wounds a mysterious blue shine and protected them from blood poisoning – they called it the “angel’s glow”'

Wildly curious, I immediately started searching for more on that. It's FASCINATING http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/122477 

2012-06-27 01:01:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ok, you're browsing Google+, so you might as well come come talk science, careers, the geek life & etc with me & +Jerry Nguyen for our June +SciLingual hangout. We're just about to get started. https://plus.google.com/u/1/115825083974021207945/posts

2012-06-25 21:20:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

SciLingual Hangout #5: Getting to know you! June 26th @ 6PM PT

We're going to do something slightly different with this Hangout! I (+Jerry Nguyen) would like to introduce you to a #realwomanofscience , the fabulous +Liz Neeley. As part of this Hangout, I'll be interviewing Liz about her career trajectory, interesting science news, and whatever other topics she wants to talk about.

Turnabout is fair play, so she'll have the opportunity to ask me about my life as a Pottery Barn window decorator and my short stint as an in-flight male stripper...or not.

Of course, the real fun starts when we open up the Hangout for everyone to join in the fun. Do you have a unique science career trajectory? Are there any topics that cross with science that interest you? Bring your questions, comments, and silly anecdotes. We want to hear 'em!

2012-06-22 22:14:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

SciLingual Hangout #5: Getting to know you! June 26th @ 6PM PT

We're going to do something slightly different with this Hangout! I (+Jerry Nguyen) would like to introduce you to a #realwomanofscience , the fabulous +Liz Neeley. As part of this Hangout, I'll be interviewing Liz about her career trajectory, interesting science news, and whatever other topics she wants to talk about.

Turnabout is fair play, so she'll have the opportunity to ask me about my life as a Pottery Barn window decorator and my short stint as an in-flight male stripper...or not.

Of course, the real fun starts when we open up the Hangout for everyone to join in the fun. Do you have a unique science career trajectory? Are there any topics that cross with science that interest you? Bring your questions, comments, and silly anecdotes. We want to hear 'em!

2012-06-14 21:38:56 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

If you couldn't join us last night, find the ScienceOnlineSeattle storify here: http://storify.com/scioSEA/sosea-3-conversations-about-our-changing-planet and the livestream: https://new.livestream.com/scioWC/soSEA3 

2012-06-01 00:45:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

15 minutes away from hanging out with +Microryza and +SciFund!