I was at SciBarCamp Palo Alto
SciBarCamp Palo Alto took place July 8-9 in the Institute for the Future. I came right from the airport and...
Meeting ReportA collection of 91 posts
Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.
Why do we go to conferences?
I just returned from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Orlando, with approximately 30.000 participants one of the largest oncology conferences. Like other conferences of this size, the experience can be overwhelming,...
ScienceOnline09: Providing public health and medical information to all
This Sunday I will moderate a session called Providing public health and medical information to all at ScienceOnline09. I didn't pick the title, but it is a topic I care a lot about. Because...
New ways to look at your presentation
This blog post is about presentations. And this usually means PowerPoint presentations, although some people do well without it1. Edward Tufte argues that PowerPoint can be a really bad tool to create slides2. But it is...
How to lure (German) researchers back to Germany
The German Academic International Network (GAIN)1 informs German researchers working in North America about research opportunities in Germany. The implied intention is to lure German researchers back to Germany. GAIN project director Katja Simons explains:...
It's time for Conference 2.0
Conference 2.0 – A scheduled meeting of people sharing a common interest that takes advantage of Web 2.01 concepts. Scientific conferences are essential both for the exchange of ideas and for networking. But they don’...