Scientists world-wide collaborated on observing coral reefs and analyzing satellite data to determine the extent of coral bleaching. It isn't a pretty picture.
President Nancy Shute called the meeting to order at 8:15 AM.
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It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
Free online: Wise advice from your science-writing peers, direct from ScienceWriters2010, the NASW annual meeting, Plus waiting for ScienceOnline2011. Plus the truth about Daylight Saving Time: If you spring forward, you might fall back.
It was not Cathy Farrar's goal to transform her high school physics students into science journalists — at least not at first. She just wanted to encourage them to enter a writing contest.
Saturday I attended a couple of workshops about "New Media" ("Experiments in new media: Beautiful failures and startling successes" before lunch and "Rebooting science journalism: Adapting to the new media landscape" afterwards.) Together they convinced me that neither revolution nor evolution are the right metaphors for the impact of digital media.
Here are a few links to resources that were mentioned during "Get the Numbers Right."
What does a tweeter like me add to a meeting like ScienceWriters2010? As promised, you can compare the twitter vs. blog coverage.