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ScienceOnline2013

Conversation, Community, & Connections at the intersection of Science & the Web

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1:00pm

Monitoring and analyzing one's effectiveness on social media NRC Sketchnoting/Scribing NRC Stop Talking, Start Making: Rapid Media Prototyping NRC Draw Your Own Science Comics NRC Designing Effective Visualizations with R NRC ePublishing with The Atavist NRC Special effects and visualization NRC Walking Tour of the Downtown Raleigh Stormwater Tunnels N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences: NRC

3:00pm

Maps for journalists, writers, and scientists NRC

6:00pm

Opening Event at NRC N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences: NRC

9:00am

CONVERGE: Social Media is Out of This World Room 1c/d CONVERGE: Welcome & instructions for the day Room 1c/d

10:00am

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1 a/b

10:30am

Alternative Careers ARE the Mainstream! Taking Your Degree to a New Level Room 8 Impressions Matter: Embracing art & design in research and science communication Room 7a Leading scientists towards openness Room 7b Narrative: What is it? How science writers use it? Room 3 Never Tell Me the Odds! (Part Deux, Asteroid Field Edition) Room 10 Science and medical blogging at institutions: How to avoid being that kind of corporate blog Room 6 Why should scientists 'do' outreach? (part I) Room 4

11:30am

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1a/b

12:00pm

Changing The Public Face of Science Room 8 Helping Scientists 'Do' Outreach (part II) Room 3 Inject some STEAM below the STEM - get in at the roots! Room 7a Open access or vanity press? Room 7b Public Statistics Room 10 Scientific Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Communicate Science Room 4 Summing it Up: The Data on the Cutting Room Floor Room 6

1:00pm

Lunch: Neomonde Room 2

2:30pm

#Hashtags in the Academy: Engaging Students with Social Media Room 8 Broadening the Participation of Diverse Populations in Online Science Room 4 Hands-on math Room 10 Into the Unknown: What we don't know, and how to talk about it Room 6 Science Art as Science Outreach Room 7a The Impact of Electronic and Open Notebooks on Science Room 7b Why Won't the Science Deficit Model Die? Room 3

3:30pm

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1a/b

4:00pm

Accessibility for All Audiences Room 8 Blogging for the long haul Room 3 Lightwaves and Brainbows: Seductive Visual Metaphors at the Intersection of Science, Language and Art Room 7a Open Session Room 10 Science online and rethinking peer review Room 7b Tackling science denialism with a systematic game plan Room 4 “They said what?!”: Fighting bullshit in the scicomm ecosystem Room 6

7:00pm

Evening Social Event Cypress Manor

9:00am

CONVERGE Room 1c/d CONVERGE: Announcements Room 1c/d

10:30am

Formal Science Education, Informal Science Education and Science Writing Room 3 How to make sure you're being appropriately skeptical when covering scientific and medical studies Room 7b Spies, Spacemen, Seamstresses, and Sailors: What Science Writers Can Learn From Genre Writing Room 4 The World's Largest Explainer Room 10 Thinking Beyond Text Room 7a What’s News in Citizen Science? Perspectives, People, Projects, and Platforms (part I) Room 8 Working Towards Better Press Releases: What Do Writers Want? Room 6

11:30am

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1 a/b

12:00pm

Blitz: Benchfly-Open-access video platform Room 8 Blitz: Games for Science/Education Room 6 Blitz: MathOverflow Room 10 Blitz: Mendeley Room 7b Blitz: SciLance-Pitch, Publish, Prosper Room 3 Blitz: Tools and technologies powering new frontiers for citizen science Room 4 Blitz: Training in sci comm in the age of data - an Italian case study Room 7a ScienceSeeker Room 1c/d

12:20pm

Blitz: Dognition Room 4 Blitz: figshare Room 7b Blitz: Math Code Share Room 10 Blitz: Mobile Apps for the Lab Room 6 Blitz: Oggiscienza Room 7a Blitz: Science Exchange-Reproducibility Initiative Room 8 Blitz: The Nerve Room 3

12:30pm

CyberScreen Film Festival Room 1c/d

12:40pm

Blitz: Academia.edu Room 7b Blitz: Comprendia - Getting Financial Support For Your Blog Without Selling Your Soul Room 7a Blitz: EPA Room 10 Blitz: Eyes on the Solar System/ Spacecraft 3D Room 6 Blitz: From Lab Bench to Kitchen Table: Why I Made KidScienceApp Room 3 Blitz: PeerJ Room 8 Blitz: PLOS Room 4

1:00pm

Blitz Luncheon: Gourmet Salad Bar Room 2

2:30pm

Citizen Scientists and Ethical Research (part II) Room 4 Dialogue or fight? (Un)moderated science communication online Room 6 Did Anybody Look At This !*%&#%@* Press Release? Room 8 How can the science of science education inform communication about science? Room 10 Opening Doors: Science Communication for Those that Don't Care/Don't Like Science Room 7b Telling Visual Stories with Data: A Guided Tour of Data Visualization Room 7a Using altmetrics to tell the full story of your research impact Room 3

3:30pm

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1 a/b

4:00pm

Animating Science Room 7a Covering cancer causes, prevention and screening Room 7b Explanatory journalism, &%$£ yeah! Room 6 Mixing science journalism with activism: The promise and the peril Room 4 open session Room 10 Persuading the unpersuadable: Communicating science to deniers, cynics, and trolls Room 3 Sticking with it for the long haul: Building community and maintaining long-term engagement in citizen science (part III) Room 8

6:00pm

Dinner with Friends On the town

9:00am

CONVERGE Room 1c/d

10:30am

24/7 Health: The role of mobile technology in healthcare Room 7b Chemophobia & Chemistry in The Modern World Room 3 Citation Data and Altmetrics for Historians and Social Scientists Room 10 Communicating Science Where There is No Science Communication Room 8 Science Ebooks: Building the Community Room 6 The Game Changer: Games for Science Engagement and Education Room 7a What Happens When People Start Taking Your Online Ramblings Seriously Room 4

11:30am

Break (snacks in Figshare Café) Room 1 a/b

12:00pm

Blogging in Grad School: Pros, Cons, and Potential Room 7b Bringing Science Into Breaking News Room 10 Distilling Ideas: Communicating Science with Comics Room 7a How do you actually get a book written? Room 6 How much 'I' is 'TMI'? Room 4 Outreach in Unusual Places Room 8 We are who we are? Who are we? Issues of identity and the internet Room 3

1:00pm

2:30pm

Everything old is new again: using stories from the past to enlighten current events in science Room 4 Imposter Syndrome Room 10 Life in the Venn -- What Happens When You're Forced to Wear Many Hats? Room 3 Science Blogs Are One Hard Drive Crash From Oblivion: Or, How do we go About Preserving Science Blogs? Room 7b The Art, Craft and Business of Freelancing: Best Practices and Worst Problems of Your First Day, Month and Year Room 7a Using Science Fiction to Make Scientific Ideas Accessible Room 6 Writing About Science for Kids (and Former Kids) Room 8

3:30pm

Break Room 1a/b

4:00pm

CONVERGE: Closing Room 1c/d

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