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ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Deborah Blum is writer and a Professor of Journalism at University of Wisconsin. She blogs at Speakeasy Science and tweets as @deborahblum. I have reviewed her latest book ‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’ – here.

Stephanie Willen Brown is the director of the Park Library in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She blogs at CogSci Librarian and tweets as @CogSciLibrarian. I interviewed Stephanie back in July.

Melissa Lott is a Graduate student and Research Assistant at University of Texas at Austin. She blogs on Global Energy Matters and tweets as @mclott.

Jessica McCann is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke University Medical Center. She tweets as @jess_i_am.

Louis Shackleton is a student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He blogs at Crowded Head, Cozy Bed and tweets as @LouFCD.

Todd Harris is a Bioinformaticist and information architect at WormBase. He blogs at The World Is My Cubicle and tweets as @tharris.

Carl Boettiger is a Graduate Student Researcher in Population Biology at University of California, Davis. He tweets as @cboettig.

Jennifer Walton is the Public Relations Manager at NEON, Inc.. She tweets as @NEONInc.

Ann Marie Cunningham is the Executive Director of the Science Friday Initiative – the nonprofit of Science Friday on NPR – and she blogs at Talking Science. She tweets as @talkingscience.

Kelly Rae Chi is a freelance writer. I interviewed Kelly justa few weeks ago. She tweets as @kellyraechi.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Robin Lloyd is the Online News Editor at Scientific American. She tweets as @robinlloyd99.

Jonathan Eisen is a Professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology. He blogs at The Tree of Life and tweets as @phylogenomics

Austin Luton is the Content Support Editor for Physics and Math at WebAssign at NCSU. He tweets as @Austinopterix.

Jason Heinz is the Digital Production Manager at Morehead Planetarium & Science Center where he is also one of the bloggers.

Ernie Hood is a Freelance Science Writer, Editor, & Podcaster, and the current president of SCONC (Science Communicators of North Carolina). He runs the local Radio InVivo science radio show and tweets as @bkthrough. I interviewed Ernie in April.

Douglas White is a Research Associate at the University of Delaware. He blogs at Ocean Bytes and tweets as @cpuguru

Brian Krueger is a student in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the founder and manager of LabSpaces.net and its science blogging network where he also blogs at H2SO4Hurts. He tweets as @labspaces and @h2so4hurts. I interviewed Brian in October.

Paolo Mangiafico is the Director of Digital Information Strategy at Duke University. He tweets as @paoloman.

Barrie Hayes is the Bioinformatics and Translational Sciences Librarian at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She tweets as @hayesb13.

Jonathan Pishney is the Communications Director at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Andrea Novicki is the Academic Technology Consultant at Duke University. She blogs at Duke’s CIT blog and tweets as @andrea1. I interviewed Andrea back in March.

Ferris Jabr is a Freelance writer and science journalist who just graduated from New York University SHERP and, after finishing his internship at Scientific American MIND, is starting his new job at The New Scientist. He blogs at The Mind’s Flight and tweets as @ferrisjabr.

Samuel Dupuis is a student at Dragon Academy. He blogs at Science of Sorts on My Mind . I interviewed Sam last year.

Alberto Roca is the Diversity Consultant and Founder & Editor at MinorityPostdoc.org.

Constance Cummings is the Project Director at The Foundation for Psychocultural Research. She tweets as @thefpr_org.

Roy Campbell is the Director of Exhibits at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.

Catherine Anderson is a Lecturer at a university and Program Director of a science outreach program for teens. She blogs at Genegeek and tweets as @genegeek.

Steven Bachrach is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Trinity University. He writes the Computational Organic Chemistry blog.

Karyn Hede is a science communicator and educator. She is a news correspondent for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Science “Careers”. I interviewed Karyn back in May.

Dan Ferber is a Freelance journalist and author. His latest book is Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. He tweets as @DanFerber. In 2002, with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, he uncovered how the Bush administration had begun stacking science advisory committees to get the answers they wanted—work that helped trigger a Congressional investigation.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Chris Rowan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He blogs at Highly Allochthonous and tweets as @Allochthonous

Kendra Snyder is a science writer at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She blogs at Brookhaven Bits & Bytes and tweets as @kendrasnyder.

Catherine Crawley is a Science Writer at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and she tweets as @NIMBioS.

Susanne Bard is the Producer of Science Update at AAAS. She tweets as @Science_Update.

Emily Finke is the Public Education Specialist at the Cincinnati Museum Center and a Student at University of Cincinnati. She tweets as @seelix.

Karl Leif Bates is the Director of Research Communications at Duke University where he also blogs on their Research Blog. He tweets as @klb8s. I interviewed Karl two years ago.

Ashley Yeager is a Science writer and Research Blogger at Duke University. She tweets as @AshleyJYeager.

Liz Jones is the Curator of Educational Events at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

Rhianna Wisniewski is the Editor at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jai Ranganathan is the Center Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He produces Curiouser and Curiouser podcast at Miller-McCune and tweets as @jranganathan

Kerstin Hoppenhaus is a Freelance Filmmaker. She blogs at More than Honey and tweets as @quinoat. I interviewed Kerstin back in April.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Anna Lena Phillips is the Assistant editor of the Scientists’ Bookshelf at the American Scientist

Alicia Roberts is a Freelance writer and editor. She tweets as @aliciawroberts

Peter Genzer is the Manager for Media & Communications at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He tweets as @PeteGenz.

Jeff Foust is the Editor of The Space Review. He tweets as @jeff_foust.

Tricia Kenny is the Director of Market Development at Invitrogen Life Technologies. She tweets as @everydaycloning.

Lyndell Bade is a MS Student and an Instructor at East Carolina University. She blogs at SaveOurSharks and People, Policy, Planet and tweets as @lyndellmbade.

Tom Swanson is a Research Physicist at the US Naval Observatory. He blogs on Swans on Tea and tweets as @Swansontea

Jennifer Williams is the Senior Scientist at OpenHelix, LLC and blogs at The OpenHelix Blog. She tweets as @openhelix

Jennifer Weston is the Director of Communication in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. She tweets as@Tuffysprite.

Julie Meachen-Samuels is a Postdoctoral Associate at NESCent.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Dennis Meredith is the Editor at Glyphus. He is the author of Explaining Research. He blogs at Research Explainer and tweets as @explainresearch. I interviewed Dennis back in March.

Patric Lane is the Health and Science editor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He tweets as @patriclane.

Melissa Anley-Mills is the Science Communications officer in the Office of Research & Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She blogs on Greenversations and tweets as @EPAresearch.

Jeremy Yoder is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Idaho. He blogs at Denim and Tweed and tweets as @JBYoder. I interviewed Jeremy back in May.

Ariel Neff is the Instruction and Science Reference Librarian at Benedictine University. She blogs at The Methods Section and tweets as @arielibrarian.

Katie Mosher is the Communications Director at the North Carolina Sea Grant.

Rebecca Weinberg is a Graduate Student at Penn State University. She tweets as @sciliz.

Tom Linden is the Director of the Medical & Science Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He blogs at Dr. Tom Linden’s Health Blog and tweets as @tomlinden. I interviewed Tom in May.

Greg Anderson is the Publisher of GenomeWeb

William Hogan is a student in Charlotte NC.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Misha Angrist is an Assistant Professor at Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He blogs at Genome Boy and tweets as @mishaangrist. His book, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics, just came out last month. I interviewed Misha for the blog back in March.

Princess Ojiaku is a Graduate Student at North Carolina Central University, a musician, and a blogger at Science with Moxie. She tweets as @artfulaction.

Russ Campbell is the Communications Officer for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. He blogs at Fishtown University and tweets as @razoobe. I interviewed Russ last year.

Nancy Lamontagne is a Freelance writer, and the Associate Director of Communications at the UNC CHapel Hill School of Nursing. She tweets as @UNCSON.

Benjamin Young Landis is the Outreach/Communications Coordinator at USGS Western Ecological Research Center. He blogs and he tweets as @younglandis.

Kelly Izlar is the 1st year MA in the Medical and Science journalism program at the UNC – Chapel Hill School of Journalism.

Holly Menninger is a Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University and the Co-host and producer of Science Cabaret on Air. She tweets as @DrHolly.

Suzanne Franks is a Scientopia blogger at Thus Spake Zuska. I interviewed Zuska two years ago.

Lisa Gardiner is the Director of Education at NEON, Inc..

Bill Cannon is the Webzine manager and editor of DEIXIS, a U.S. Department of Energy program run by the Krell Institute. He tweets as @ScienceMachines

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Continuing with the introductions to the attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Rick MacPherson is the Conservation Programs Director at the Coral Reef Alliance. He blogs at Deep Sea News and tweets as @rmacpherson. I interviewed Rick two years ago.

Enrico M. Balli is the founder and CEO of Sissa Medialab in Trieste, Italy, producing the next generation of Italian science journalists. He blogs at Oggi Scienza and tweets as @eballi.

Heather Piwowar is a postdoc research associate at UBC, funded by the NSF-funded DataONE cyberinfrastructure project. She is working with the Dryad team at NESCent, studying data sharing and reuse behaviour. Heather blogs at Research Remix and tweets as @researchremix

John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He blogs at Confessions of a Science Librarian and tweets as @dupuisj. I interviewed John two years ago.

Bonnie Swoger is the Science and Technology Librarian at the Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo. She blogs at the Undergraduate Science Librarian and tweets as @bonnieswoger

Adrian J. Ebsary is a Graduate Student at the University of Ottawa and the founder of Peer Review Radio. He tweets as @ajebsary.

Irene Klotz is a journalist for Discovery Channel and Reuters. I think this is her Twitter profile.

Matthew Soniak is a freelance writer in Philadelphia, PA, who blogs on the eponimous blog. He tweets as @flossymatt.

Jamie Vernon is the Assistant Director Biology Labs at the American University. He tweets as @JLVernonPhD. We recently realized that I was his Teaching Assistant at NCSU some years ago.

Michael Taffe is an Associate Professor at The Scripps Research Institute. He tweets as @effatma.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

Let’s continue introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Randi Hutter Epstein MD is the Editor at Yale Journal of Medical Humanities. She is the author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank and she tweets as @rhutterepstein.

Carl Zimmer is a Contributing editor at Discover where he also blogs at The Loom. He is the author of several popular science books, but the latest one is essentially a textbook – The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. He also tweets as @carlzimmer.

Nancy Shute is an independent writer for NPR, National Geographic, Scientific American, US News & World Report. She blogs at US News & World Report, is the current president of NASW and she tweets as @nancyshute.

Jason Thibeault is a Systems Delivery Specialist (IT) and a skeptic. He blogs at Lousy Canuck and tweets as @lousycanuck.

Catherine Clabby is the Associate editor at the American Scientist magazine and tweets as @cathyclabby.

Kari Wouk is the Senior Manager of Presentations and Partnerships at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

DeLene Beeland is a Freelance Science & Nature Writer. She blogs at Wild Muse and tweets as @tdelene.

Ana Nelson is the Creator of Dexy. She tweets as @ananelson.

Liz Neeley is the Assistant Director of Science Outreach at COMPASS and she tweets as @LizNeeley.

Colin Schultz is a Freelance journalist. He blogs at CMBR and tweets as @_ColinS_.

ScienceOnline2011 – introducing the participants

As I do every year, I will do a series of posts introducing attendees/participants of ScienceOnline2011. You can find them all on the list, but it may help if you get them in smaller chunks, focusing on a few at a time.

Scott Rosenberg is a Director of MediaBugs.org, a pioneer blogger at Wordyard.com (also at Salon.com). He is a co-founder and was the managing editor of Salon.com. Scott tweets as @scottros and is the author of two excellent books: Say Everything and Dreaming in Code.

Maia Szalavitz is a Freelance neuroscience journalist and writer for TIME. She blogs at Born for Love, tweets as @maiasz and is the co-author of several books including Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential–and Endangered.

Stewart Wills is the Editorial Director for Web & New Media at AAAS/Science Magazine. He tweets as @stewartwills

John Timmer is the Science Editor at Ars Technica and he tweets as @j_timmer. I interviewed John back in February.

Emily Willingham is a writer and editor. She blogs at College Biology Blog and The Biology Files. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to College Biology and she tweets as @collegebiology and @biolotrix.

Stephanie Soucheray-Grell is a student of Medical Journalism at UNC.

Leigh Krietsch Boerner is a graduate student at Indiana University and a freelance science writer, blogging at Just Another Electron Pusher and tweeting as @LeighJKBoerner/

Allison Bland is a Communication, Culture and Technology student at Georgetown University. She tweets as @blandiloquent.

Diane Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She blogs at Science Made Cool. She is the author of children’s books Fossils and Stick Insect.

Robert Reddick is a Blogger and Developer in Mount Holly, near Charlotte NC. He blogs at RobertReddick.com and tweets as @rabbitrock.