scientist communities
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Talk for BarCamb 2010 about communities of scientists, in relation to SciBarCamp and other unconferences for scientists. Picture heavy. I tried to add notes with the main things that were discussed in the talk. Slide 2: Start talking about online communities. TOO many online science communities. Slide 3/4: Even though scientists among first users of internet, internet has now become a distraction. Not so interested in online communities (or at least not in signing up for ALL of them) Slide 5: Science Online North Carolina conference Slide 6: Science Online London conference Slide 7/8: Talking about science online has become a kind of new subfield, where people get together to talk about the web at physical conferences. Just like other new fields, eg stem cells, with new conference series Slide 9/10: At conferences, you meet people in the breaks → unconference Slide 11: Explanation of Foo/Bar Camp history. There is room for a SciBarCamp Organized in Toronto in 2008/2009 Slide 12: Why Toronto? BarCamp scene very established. This picture: HohoTO Christmas party – raised HUGE amount of money for local food bank, all through unconference/tech/media community (spread through Twitter) Also LOTS of scientific research. Should be perfect ground to start a scibarcamp. Slide 13: From here to the end: just photos of SciBarCamp 2008 to give an impression. Mentioned groups of people that came: -scientists – very few. They also complained that there was so little scientific research presented, but nobody presented their own either. Hard to get scientists to go to an unconference. Rest of session: discussed reasons. -Funding – none for attending a barcamp -Recognition – ditto -No benefit for career if not in company of people in same field. Maybe it could work as appendix of an existing conference (within a field). Has been done (once?) in physics, and a few times in science communication. (An additional post-BarCamb note: I remember a lot of people also mentioning the fact that they don't want to attend a conference in their spare time. They would go if it was during a work day, but then the people who come out of personal interested can't go.)TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Scientist Communities (online and offline) BarCamb 2010 Eva Amsen
2.
- There aremanysocial networks for scientists!
- Too many?
- Not everyone joins all networks, some people join one. Networks become scattered.
- There is nodefaultsocial network for scientists
- http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/social-networks-for-scientists
- What can Idothere?
3.
- The internet & science
- Scientists were among the first people online.
4. Researchersneedthe internet to:
- Look for papers
5. E-mail colleagues 6. Order materials 7. Search databases 8. Submit papers 9.
- The internet as distraction
- Source: http://www.ashersarlin.com/archives/2004/09/honestly_who_co.php
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
- at a conference the most important thingshappen in the coffee break - Hans Ulrich Obrist
- http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge244.html
16. Science unconferences
- FOO Camp
- Bar Camp
- Bar Camb
17. Demo Camp 18. Cupcake Camp 19. etc. Sci Foo 20. SciBarCamp 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. [email_address] @easternblot http://blogs.nature.com/eva http://scibarcamp.org http://www.slideshare.net/easternblot