Before describing the upcoming ScienceOnline2013 conference, I should mention it is fully registered and there’s a waitlist for attendees. Here’s more from the ScienceOnline2013 Conference Info page,
ScienceOnline2013, the seventh annual conference exploring science on the Web, will take place Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2013.
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N.C. [North Carolina] State University will once again be our hosts, letting us use the spacious McKimmon Conference Center for our event.
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Registration spaces are now full. Yes, we know that there are more people who want to come than we have room for. But the reason that we keep the size limited (450 people) [emphasis mine] is so that the conversation, camaraderie, and collaborations are maximized. We have some other ideas brewing for how more of you can benefit from the programming. Stay tuned.
The cost to registration [sic] for ScienceOnline2013 is $200 (NOTE: the actual cost to cover all the conference expenses is much more than your registration and we rely on our generous sponsors and supporters to make the conference affordable for you! You can help by connecting the organizers to potential sponsors, donors, and corporate partners). Registration includes the conference venue, all regular sessions (Wednesday workshops are extra), many of your meals, and more! We will have breakfast on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Lunch is provided on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and evening food is covered for Thursday at a special yet-to-be announced event. We are still planning the details of the Wednesday night opening, but we will surely have adult beverages and hors d’oeuvres. You will be covering your own costs for dinner on Friday. And of course, coffee, other beverages, and snacks will be available throughout the three days.
As to why you might want to place yourself on the waitlist,
Thursday, January 31
9:00am CONVERGE: Social Media is Out of This World; CONVERGE: Welcome & instructions for the day
10:00am Break (snacks in Figshare Café) 10:30am
Alternative Careers ARE the Mainstream!
Taking Your Degree to a New Level
Impressions Matter: Embracing art & design in research and science communication
Leading scientists towards openness
Narrative: What is it? How science writers use it?
Never Tell Me the Odds! (Part Deux, Asteroid Field Edition)
Science and medical blogging at institutions: How to avoid being that kind of corporate blog
Why should scientists ‘do’ outreach? (part I)
11:30am
Break (snacks in Figshare Café)
12:00pm
Changing The Public Face of Science
Helping Scientists ‘Do’ Outreach (part II)
Inject some STEAM below the STEM – get in at the roots!
Open access or vanity press?
Public Statistics
Scientific Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Communicate Science
Summing it Up: The Data on the Cutting Room Floor
1:00pm Lunch: Neomonde
2:30pm
#Hashtags in the Academy: Engaging Students with Social Media
Broadening the Participation of Diverse Populations in Online Science
Hands-on math
Into the Unknown: What we don’t know, and how to talk about it
Science Art as Science Outreach
The Impact of Electronic and Open Notebooks on Science
Why Won’t the Science Deficit Model Die?
3:30pm Break (snacks in Figshare Café)
4:00pm
Accessibility for All Audiences
Blogging for the long haul
Lightwaves and Brainbows: Seductive Visual Metaphors at the Intersection of Science, Language and Art
Open Session
Science online and rethinking peer review
Tackling science denialism with a systematic game plan
“They said what?!”: Fighting bullshit in the scicomm ecosystem
7:00pm
Evening Social Event
I gather CONVERGE is the new word for Keynote and as it turns out, the speaker for the Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 9 am CONVERGE session is Baba Brinkman, a Canadian-born rapper, who has toured extensively with his Rap Guide to Evolution (the world’s only peer-reviewed science rap) and mounted it as one of his off Broadway shows in New York City. Brinkman also raps about some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gilgamesh, and dating, not necessarily together, in various shows he has mounted. There’s more in my Nov. 23, 2012 posting about his then opening Ingenious Nature show, a rap performance about dating and evolutionary psychology.