Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Science Online (Week of January 28, 2013)

“It started as a meeting of science bloggers in 2007 and it has become a big annual event” qote.me/ozQT0d #scio13

— Anton Zuiker (@mistersugar) January 29, 2013

This week Twitter was abuzz with news from the Science Online Conference (#scio13).  As the tweet above says, this annual conference began in 2007 to bring together science bloggers and their readers and has grown ever since.  The schedule is chosen in an “unconference” style and facilitated through the use of a wiki.  For those who aren’t familiar, an unconference is a conference in which participant feedback is used to determine topics centered around a theme.  The conference is also being broadcast online and has viewing parties around the world.  We’ll highlight some tweets from the conference as well as hashtags spinning off or related to conference tweets.

#SciO13

BTW, my list of “5 Reasons Physicists Should Be on Twitter” could apply to any scientists! #scio13 bit.ly/14s0joF twitter.com/AstroKatie/sta…

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) January 30, 2013

Context and Identity in Science Writing bit.ly/117MPe7 my #scio13 sesh with @scicurious #scio13ID — Kate Clancy (@KateClancy) January 29, 2013

Does science have a place in breaking news? Where do we put it?@shiplives &I invite your insights&share our own ow.ly/heigo #scio13 — Emily Willingham (@ejwillingham) January 29, 2013

As you might expect, a conference that was started by science bloggers also populates the hashtag #ScienceBlogging

Why researchers should blog buff.ly/UyS8ni by @benhannigan, nurse, teacher, researcher v @mgoat73 #scienceblogging #openaccess #scio13

— Open Science Fedn (@openscience) January 29, 2013

There was also quite a bit of chatter about data publication and #OpenAccess coming out of the conference.

We wondered what’s the best way to predict protein function. So we did this: nature.com/nmeth/journal/…#Glamour #OpenAccess #Bioinformatics — Iddo Friedberg (@iddux) January 27, 2013

Easier access to PLOS data – bit.ly/118lOwL yes: #opendata is next stage of #openaccess revolution — Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) January 30, 2013

#DataScience

Data mining considered significant healthcare trend zite.to/Vmvhuj via #datascience — BigDataScientist (@BDataScientist) January 29, 2013

#OpenScience

Interview discussing my open lab notebook appears in Nature’s Turning Pt column this week: goo.gl/NMo8w#openscience

— Carl Boettiger (@cboettig) January 30, 2013

75% of research data is never made openly available buff.ly/10YPhnc by @andreasinica #opendata #openaccess #openscience

— Open Science Fedn (@openscience) January 28, 2013

#SciOut is about science and outreach moving beyond press releases.

What are different ways for scientists to do outreach? Making a list of ideas. @shiplives & @kejamesscio13.wikispaces.com/Session+2A #scio13 #sciout

— Peter Edmonds (@peterdedmonds) January 31, 2013

#SciSummary focuses on the vagaries of science visualization and publishing.

48% of adults feel they have a good understanding of “DNA”. But only 12% say that for “The human genome.” #SciSummary #scio13

— Rachel Feltman (@RachelFeltman) January 31, 2013