Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Musa Akbari is an Iranian, born in Turkey, who has lived in the Bay Area for the latter half of his life. He graduated with degrees in Science and Technology Studies and Contemporary Leadership from UC Davis. With a deep understanding of networked systems in the sciences, combined with practical experience in emerging markets in web tech, he felt drawn to the insensible disconnect between how science is done and the technologies available today. He has assumed this opportunity as a personal quest to help facilitate the inevitable shift in scientific peer-review and publishing.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Derek Hennen is currently an undergrad studying Biology and Spanish at Marietta College, he will be graduating in a few weeks.  After he graduates, he will be working with a watershed organization in Marietta, Ohio called Friends of the Lower Muskingum River as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Derek is focused on communicating knowledge about insects to the general public through his blog, Normal Biology and through public talks. He plans to continue his insect research at graduate school in the future. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Mike Biocchi is currently a PhD student focusing his research on Education Technology and E-learning. His research is aimed at using video games as an educational tool inside the classroom, instead of a means of just entertainment. Mike has an  MSc in Computer Games Technology and is the founder and owner of Chamfered Technology. He is also the Academic Specialist at Algoma University in the IT Department and a part-time faculty member at Algoma University with the Computer Science Department.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Jenn Cable  received a PhD in Biochemistry in June 2011 and since then has been working towards becoming a science writer. She currently writes regularly on nature.com’s New York Blog and also works as a medical writer, developing materials for new drugs. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Jerry Sheehan serves as the Chief of Staff for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. In his this capacity, Mr. Sheehan has responsibility for strategic planning, metrics, institute governance, and strategic initiatives. During his career Jerry has focused on the intersection of public policy and information technology with a particular interest in applying academic innovation to “real world” problems. In addition to his executive management responsibilities, Jerry served as Senior Personnel on the National Science Foundation’s GreenLight Project, a major research instrument effort focused on improving computer energy efficiency. Sheehan served as a member of the California Emerging Technology Fund Panel of Experts and as staff has supported the work of Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Broadband Task Force and President Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee on Open Source Software for High Performance Computing. He received a Masters of Science degree in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University in 1991 and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Educause.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Boris Adryan is a biologist by training (studies at Mainz, Germany, and Charleston, USA). He obtained a PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany) for work on the development of the Drosophila tracheal system. Postdoctoral work at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology exposed him to both the wet- and dry-bench sides of modern genomics and computational biology. As a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, his team of currently six biologists, computer scientists  and mathematicians works on experimental and theoretical studies of transcriptional regulation and transcription factors. In his spare time he enjoys playing computer games with his children, running and boxing. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Anthony Salvagno is a biophysics PhD student at the University of New Mexico and a graphic designer for IheartAnthony. His research is the perfect mixture of design and science and he publishes his findings in real-time in his open notebook. He is an open science advocate and educator.

figshare and Open Notebook Science – the perfect marriage

I am an open notebook scientist, which simply means that I share all of my research online in an open format in real-time. I share everything about my research that I can including: ideas, project plans, methods and protocols, raw data, interpreted data, and conclusions. I publish my notebook using WordPress and use a slew of online tools to handle whatever WordPress cannot. figshare is one of those tools. Continue reading →