Science Online Vancouver launches!
Thursday 19th April saw the launch of the first of another two events that are replicating nature.com’s SoNYC model to other locations in the US and Canada. The first of these (by 30 minutes!) was Science Online Vancouver (#SoVAN), which hosted a popular debate on the topic of, “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.
To read what people on Twitter were saying about the event, check out the Storify of tweets at the bottom of this post.
Live-streaming and video archiving
Each SoVAN event is live-streamed to give as many people as possible the chance to take part in the debate. You can check out this month’s livestream archive here.
Finding out more
You can also check out the SoVAN website and SoVAN is also on Facebook – like our page and join in the sharing of conversations, or find us on Google+.
There’s an additional Storify by Tim Skellet here.