Wednesday Slinks--#scio12 edition

Phew. It's been a whirlwind of a week. Last week I attended the conference ScienceOnline2012, and I'm still sorting through contacts I've made and mulling over posts that I want to write.

Suffice it to say (or not) it was an amazing, life-changing experience, which I promise to write more about soon.

Until then, here are some of my favorite links that have come up from the conference.

Mapping of tweets from #scio12. A visualization of the most prolific tweeters and all of their connections. You should follow all of these people for smart, science related commentary. (Knowtex)

ScienceScribe. This is the session I most regret not attending, but was really excited to see the results from. Harnessing doodles as note-taking? You can bet I'll be bringing markers to lab meeting from now on. (Alpha Chimp Studio)

I sketched #scio12. More in sketch-news, from the wonderful KatiePhD, who I regretfully only met at the end of the conference, but do yourself a favor and check out her blog. (KatiePhD)

ScienceOnline2012: A touching moment. A great read from Emily Willingham about the power that this un-conference has. (the biology files)

More to come later on this conference. For now, off to biostats class, where my attempts to sketch were severely hindered by the fact that we are doing programming.

Wednesday Slinks

How a cup of coffee a day may help to keep type 2 diabetes at bay. Sometimes research turns out to be useful. Especially when it justifies my coffee habit. (Scientific American)

Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism. Scientists, meet journalists. Journalists, meet scientists. (The Guardian)

Cracking Open the Scientific Process. Science, meet the internet. Internet, this is science. Also, the conference I'm going to tomorrow is mentioned! (NY Times)

Wednesday Slinks

I'm going to try a new feature, and I'm calling it "Slinks" like Science-links (see what I did there?) as a way to show little science things that I've found on the web the past week.

Slinks!

Learn to program in a year. This looks cool, and I'm already hooked. Folks at CodeAcademy have created a super easy/fun/interactive way to teach javascript. They promise that you'll be building websites and apps in months. We shall see...(GOOD)

10 Stunning Science Visualizations. A compilation of computer-rendered drawings of very small things. Special shout out to my dad, who's model of the yeast mitotic spindle is featured. (Wired Science)

On being conspicuously invisible. "Promoting diversity is all fine and good, but it means nothing if there isn’t a genuine effort to include those ‘new’ people into the fold and make them feel welcomed and apart of the department." An important piece on minority students in science, and how institutions treat diversity. (Scientific American)


Google. Today's Google doodle salutes the 374th anniversary of Nicolas Steno's birth, the geologist who came up with the "principle of original horizonality", which basically says that rock layers form horizontally. If you don't catch it live today, check out the Washington Post's thorough explanation. (Google, Washington Post)