From Matt Brown. The Science Communication Conference will take place on 22 and 23 June 2009 at Kings Place, central London. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Extremely likely I'll be there - enjoyed the last few at the IET building. There's a lecture at IET by the curator from Greenwich Maritime museum coming up which looks interesting. Not all that surprisingly it's something to do with time. - Jo Brodie

Kings Place is literally next door to Nature, so if anyone is going, let me know. - Maxine

I may be able to get there, since I'll already visiting London around then for the World Conference of Science Journalists the following week http://www.wcsj2009.org/ - Jen Dodd

I like the "science communication" angle. Since I'm not a working scientist, I would be much more comfortable going to an event under a "communication" scope, I don't consider myself a "science blogger", but I do consider my blog to include science communication. - Richard Akerman

Just a couple days after OAI6 at CERN too... - Richard Akerman

I would say at our science blogging conference in London in August, Richard, maybe one-third to half of the people there weren't scientists - they were librarians, publishers, journalists, editors, book authors, policy people, educators et al.- I was quite surprised about that. - Maxine

Just noticed CFP deadline is *tomorrow* Friday 21 November 2008. http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba... - Richard Akerman

@Richard Akerman Yay for science communication. I'm neither a working scientist nor a science blogger (of course I learn quite a lot of science from them). I'm not quite a librarian either although I do work in a science library. But I am a science communicator. My understanding of SciBlog08 is that it was for people interested in communicating (or reading) science via blogs :) - Jo Brodie

Very true, Jo. But it did broaden out to "Web 2.0 in general" also - eg the open lab notebook/wiki session. - Maxine

Yes good point, it's where I first heard of FriendFeed. I chatted over lunch (very nice lunch!) to David Bradley about it and decided to give it a go later. Glad I did. - Jo Brodie

I like Friend Feed too, as you can probably tell ;-). I heard of it on the run-up to the conference and would not have persevered with it (because of the cancaphony of everyone's twitter etc etc) but for the "hide" option which someone kindly explained to me; and for the fact that we had this FF room on the run-up to the conference set up by Matt Wood, so I could see the usefulness (unlike most other social network sites I look at). Now we are continuing this room as "science online" and I think it is going quite well, though I hope more scientists (and science-related/interested people!) will come to use it with time. - Maxine

I agree, Maxine. I'd really like to see more science outreach people in here. - Jen Dodd

I like "science communication", a better term for what most of us are interested in than "science blogging". - Martin Fenner

well, if I land this job I'm going for in London (or the Nature one...) I shall try to make it... - Richard P Grant

Good luck with the application(s) :-) - Jo Brodie