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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: eBooks and apps

Here is a Storify round up of the SpotOn London session: Enhanced eBooks & BookApps: The




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: Collaborating and building your online presence: educating scientists and science students

Jenny Evans has created a Storify summary of her SpotOn London session: Collaborating and building your online




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: BrainSpace, a global interest graph for scientists

Here is a Storify summary of the SpotOn London session: BrainSpace, a global interest graph for




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Assessing social media impact – a workshop at ScienceOnline #scioimpact

Assessing social media impact was one of the workshop sessions at November’s SpotOn London conference,




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Share your experiences to create some SpotOn social media tips for scientists!

It ain’t a party if you can’t join us Towards the end of April, SpotOn




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SpotOn London 2013 – draft programme: Tools track

This year, Digital Science are sponsoring the Tools track and we’re grateful to them for




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SpotOn London 2013: What should the scientific record look like in the digital age?

Julia Schölermann is the organiser for this year’s SpotOn London session on, What should the scientific




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SpotOn London 2013: How are online tools changing science education?

The place we’re in as a society is a crowded field of scattered tools and




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SpotOn London Storify: Wikipedia editing session

Here is a Storify collecting the online conversations from the Wikipedia editing workshop at this year’s




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Career changing and pseudonyms

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Marine Science & Conservation Outreach

A twitter TeachIn about marine protected areas, hosted by @RJ_Dunlap on 4/8/2013




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Beagle Project, Galapagos Live & ISS Wave

Selected responses categorized into 'helped', 'helped and harmed' and 'harmed'.




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Science Communication at a Tipping Point

This has been cross-posted from the nature.com guest blog, Soapbox Science. Liz Neeley is the




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: AntarcticGlaciers.org

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Chemicals Are Your Friends

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: National Science Foundation-funded IGERT project team

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: TEDMED Great Challenges

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Lessons From a Campaign Twitter Account

James King is a geomorphologist interested in exploring the processes that govern sediment transport and




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: Fixing the fraud: how do we safeguard science from misconduct?

#solo12fraud




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: Crowdfunded science – new opportunities or dangerous echo chamber?

Finding sources for funding research can be a demanding task, and one that's not always successful. A new trend that's emerging out of the necessity to fund projects that have no traditional means of support is "crowdfunding." A panel at SpotOnLondon weighs the resulting apprehensions and benefits.




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SpotOn London 2012: My not-so-secret-anymore double life: Juggling research and science communication

Dr Anne Osterrieder is a Research and Science Communication Fellow in Plant Cell Biology at the Department of




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: Incentivising Open Access and Open Science: Carrot and Stick

Here is a Storify round up of the SpotOn London session: Incentivising Open Access and Open




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: ORCID – why do we need a unique researcher ID?

Here is a Storify round up of the SpotOn London session: ORCID – why do we




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: What do you need to start a revolution?

Here is a Storify round up of the SpotOn London session: What do you need to




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SpotOn London 2012 Storify: Tackling the terabyte: how should research adapt to the era of big data?

Here is a Storify round up of the SpotOn London session: Tackling the terabyte: how should




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SpotOn London 2013 – draft programme: Policy track

As we’re getting ready to make tickets available for this year’s SpotOn London conference, we’re




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SpotOn London 2013: Altmetrics – The Opportunities and the Challenges

Marie Boran is a PhD candidate at the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, the National




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SpotOn London 2013: Contract for interdisciplinary working

In preparation for this year’s SpotOn London 2013 workshop, Interdisciplinary research: what can scientists, humanists




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SpotOn London 2013 – draft programme: Outreach track

As we’re getting ready to make tickets available for this year’s SpotOn London conference, we’re




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SpotOn London 2013: Public Health Links, Lost in Translation

Damian Pattinson (@damianpattinson) is a co-organiser of the session on Public Health Links, Lost in Translation at




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SpotOn London 2013 Storify: Open, Portable, Decoupled – How should Peer Review change?

Here is a Storify collating the online conversation around the Open, Portable, Decoupled – How should




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SpotOn London 2013 Storify: Science games: does play work?

Here is a Storify collecting the online conversations from the Science games: does play work? session at




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SpotOn London Storify: Communicating Science in an Open Access World

Here is a Storify collecting the online conversations from the Communicating Science in an Open Access




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SpotOn London 2013 Storify: The Dark Art of Dark Social: Email, the antisocial medium which will not die

Here is a Storify collecting the online conversations from the, “The Dark Art of Dark




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SpotOn London Storify: How are online tools changing science education?

Here is a Storify collecting the online conversations from the “How are online tools changing




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How to get a ticket for this year’s SpotOn London

With a month to go, we’ve been busy behind the scenes planning for this year’s




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SpotOn London 2014 Draft Programme

We’re pleased to announce that the SpotOn London conference will take place at the Wellcome




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Let’s do an unconference

Guest Post by Martin Fenner. Martin Fenner is the technical lead for the PLOS Article-Level Metrics




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SpotOn London: Public interest and privacy in the digital world – 14/15 November 2014

The annual conference, SpotOn London, will be taking place at the Wellcome Trust on Friday,




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SpotOn London 2014 – Fringe Events

To accompany this year’s SpotOn London conference, at the Wellcome Trust on Friday, 14 November




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SAVE THE DATE – November 5th 2016

We’re delighted to announce that SpotOn will return this year as a one-day conference in




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Sponsors and Hosts: SpotOn London 2013

We are extremely grateful for the generous support of our sponsors; SpotOn London would not be




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SpotOn London 2013: Thank you to this year’s livestreaming team!

In true adherence to the age old phrase 'let them eat cake' and its traditional application to the under-funded and under-fed masses, for SpotOn London cakes were duly provided much to the enjoyment of the delegates. Since this act generated its own hashtag, it also deserves a Story...




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SpotOn London 2013: Online Coverage

We want to make sure we have collected all of the conversations around this year’s




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SpotOn London 2013 Keynote: Salvatore Mele

“Buckle up – we’re going to start with some physics” Our keynote at this year’s




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SpotOn London 2013 Panel discussion: What do you need to start a revolution?

What do you need to put together a successful public campaign about science issues? This




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SpotOn London 2013: Open, Portable, Decoupled – How should Peer Review change?

At this year’s SpotOn London, one of the most popular and widely tweeted sessions organised




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SpotOn London 2014: Open peer review

Panel Members  Xenia van Edig (Copernicus Publications) Jigisha Patel (BioMed Central) Micah Allen (UCL) Michael




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SpotOn London 2014: Right to be Forgotten

Panel Members Timandra Harkness – (Chair and Panel member) – Freelance science journalist, performer and




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SpotOn London 2014 Final Programme

This year’s SpotOn London conference will take place at the Wellcome Trust on Friday, 14 November and