If you haven’t already signed up for Science Online London 2010 (3-4 September, British Library), you better get in quickly. Places are now filling up fast.
How is the web changing the way we conduct, communicate, share, and evaluate research? How can we employ these trends for the greater good? This September, an expert group of scientists, bloggers, web entrepreneurs, and publishers will meet for two days to address such questions.
While Science Online London will feature a number of keynotes and talks, it is also about community, and is an experience that you can shape. Exchange ideas with others like you. Propose and take part in un-conference sessions. And join in our two fringe events: the famous Fringe Frivolous Roofterrace Night with free drinks and discussions (limited to 50 attendees, so register now!), and a free trip to the Diamond Light Source Synchrotron. The venue, at the British Library Conference Centre, is in the heart of London and boasts excellent catering, free wifi, and a number of cafés and exhibitions.
The full programme is yet to be announced, but speakers include Evan Harris (former MP), Aleks Krotoski (TV presenter and tech journalist), and ‘Jack of Kent’ (lawyer and proponent of British libel law reforms to help science writers), as well as many thought leaders on science blogging, data sharing and communication.
The conference is co-organised by Nature Network, Mendeley and the British Library.
Sign up here, see photos of last year’s event on Flickr, or visit the Science Online website for more information.
I’m a little confused about how to register for the Fringe Frivolous?
What Frank said. can someone make sure that GrrlScientist and I are signed up for it? We promise to indulge in frivolity as required.
I’ve also suggested a session on blogging networks: seems silly not to ride the wave.
Just spent AGES trying to find it in the bloody forum. It’s https://network.nature.com/groups/solo10/forum/topics/7607.
I would love to attend – unfortunately September 3-4 is rather close, a holiday weekend here (and thus unlikely I will be free), and I rather doubt I will be able to convince any of our funding agencies that attending a Science Online conference, let alone one in London, would be a useful expenditure of their $.
But I wish you all well and am wildly jealous of those able to attend Fringe Frivolous.