ScienceOnline2010 wrapped a few days ago, but I’m still processing it all.
It was a rewarding experience. I enjoyed great conversations with writers, professors, scientists, and reporters from Britain, Italy, Canada, and all over the U.S. and here in North Carolina. I put faces and voices to Twitter handles and found new minds to follow. I laughed, I tweeted, and I learned.
The scienceinthetriangle YouTube channel will be posting full videos of most conference sessions. You can also find other video coverage by searching for the scio10 tag.
There are simply too many ideas and takeaways from the conference to easily synthesize. What follows are mere notations, with apologies to Harper’s Index…
- Number of tweets tagged with #scio10 throughout the days of the conference, Thursday through Sunday: 3,842
- Number of meatspace attendees: 267
- meatspace
- coworking
- science hostels
- “Science isn’t a company. Science isn’t a country. Science is a way of doing something.” — Michael Specter
- “I hate the word ‘balanced’… do you balance a word from God with a word from the Devil?” — @mtdukes
- data.gov
- HealthNewsReview
- Chat Catcher
- BackType
- Prezi
- Number of diaper changes recorded by users of parenting iPhone app Trixie Tracker since its release in 2006: 722,000
- Number of naps recorded: nearly 1.2 million
- Number of Twitter handles operated by NASA’s social networking office: 53
- Cost-per-megabyte charged for internet access in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the expedition crew: $11
- scienceforcitizens.net
- Big Word of the Month
- evopunk
- ArtRage
- gimp
- myPANTONE iPhone app
- “Instead of calculus in high school, we should teach statistics.” — medical journalism session
- “Statistics is the best training a journalist can have today.” — medical journalism session
- Hammerhead shark shirt worn by @WhySharksMatter
- Video of an erect duck penis splitting a silicone model of an incompatible vagina
- Number of jokes tweeted juxtaposing “duck penis” with “Carl Zimmer“: ≥1
- “Turns out there’s no computer in that ‘digital’ prostate exam.” — @klb8s, quipping on digital media pundit Jeff Jarvis’ prominent tweeting of his own prostate cancer treatment.
- Number of times the quip was retweeted by Jeff Jarvis: 1
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