Join the Discussion:
Social Media & STEM Research
UC Davis Student Community Center, Multipurpose Room
Join the discussion of the value, pitfalls, and ways to use social media for research. A panel of STEM researchers who advocate the use of social media to facilitate the scientific inquiry and open access to scientific knowledge will present examples of how they use various types of social media (blogs, twitter, open lab notes, etc.) and their perspectives on open access journals and other vehicles for the broad dissemination of scientific tools and discovery. The panelists will lead a discussion of the issues with audience members.
Presenters:
- Holly Bik, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Biologist, UC Davis Genome Center (who blogs at www.hollybik.com and tweets @Dr_Bik on Twitter)
- Jonathan Eisen, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Evolution & Ecology, UC Davis (who blogs at phylogenomics.blogspot.com and tweets @phylogenomics)
- Katie Hinde, Assistant Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and Peabody Museum (who blogs at mammalssuck.blogspot.com and tweets @Mammals_Suck)
Poster presentation:
- Austin Elliott, 2012-13 UC Davis Professors For The Future Fellow, “Academic Blogging: Guidelines and Instructions for Enthusiastic Communicators”
