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By Laura Wheeler on 19 Oct 2012
On Thursday evening, we hosted the fifteenth installment of the monthly SpotOn (formerly Science Online) NYC discussion series. This month’s event was extra special as it was our first outing under our new name. For more info on the renaming, check out the info here. The hashtag for these events remains #sonyc. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 05 Oct 2012
Today we’re thrilled to launch the SpotOn website! A new home for conversations about how science is carried out and communicated online, hosted by Nature Publishing Group. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 24 Sep 2012
On Thursday evening, we hosted the fourteenth installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. This month’s event was back at the Rockefeller University and the topic for discussion was the $1,000 genome – are we ready? Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 10 Sep 2012
On the evening of August 20th, we hosted the thirteenth installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series, held in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences. The focus of the evening was the science PhD – Does the current PhD system need revamping to better equip researchers to continue in academia or to pursue other careers after graduating? You can find a Storify collating the online conversation here. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 21 Aug 2012
On Tuesday evening, we hosted the thirteenth installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. This month’s event was held in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences and the topic for discussion was the science PhD – Does the current PhD system need revamping to better equip researchers to continue in academia or to pursue other careers after graduating? Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 20 Aug 2012
At tonight’s SoNYC discussion, which this month is held in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences, we’re going to be focusing on science PhDs. Does the current PhD system need revamping to better equip researchers to continue in academia or to pursue other careers after graduating? Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach, SpotOn NYC (SoNYC) | Tagged #PhDelta, #SoNYC
By nature.com Communities Team on 08 Jun 2012
On Thursday evening, we hosted the twelfth instalment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. For this month’s event, the topic for debate was Reaching out of the ivory tower: … Read more
Posted in Featured, SpotOn NYC (SoNYC) | Tagged #reachingoutsci
By nature.com Communities Team on 03 May 2012
Last night saw SoNYC’s first birthday celebrations at Rockefeller University. We’ll blog a more detailed write-up tomorrow, but for now you can read the Storify capturing some of the online chatter around the event. Thanks to everyone who took part either in-person or online – we’re looking forward to our 2nd year! Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 02 May 2012
To celebrate Science Online New York’s (SoNYC’s) first birthday, we have been reminiscing on past events by highlighting some of the key take home messages, linking out to pictures and hearing from the co-organisers. We recently summarised all of the past SoNYC events; you can read the recap of the events from the science communication and outreach strand here, online tools for scientists and digital publishing here and the implicational issues – legal, policy and community here. Read more
Posted in Featured, SpotOn NYC (SoNYC) | Tagged #tooltales