Panel: "The Fall of the Ivory Tower": Cameron... - science21

Birdwatching is an example of citizen science - Jen Dodd

Science Film Festival coming up in New York in a few weeks - Jen Dodd

Chad's blog: "The world would be a better place if scientific data were reported in the Lifestyle section of the New York Times".. - Michael Nielsen

Science Film Festival: http://www.imaginesciencefilms.com/ - Jen Dodd

Chad: it would be better if the lifestyle section took a more scientific approach to its reporting - Jen Dodd

Sundance Bilson-Thompson: "You want a Lifestyle Section run by the Mythbusters" - Michael Nielsen

Chad: "Yes - there would be more explosions!" - Jen Dodd

Chad: Reporter testing the foot pads that are supposed to remove heavy metals. - Jen Dodd

John: Business section articles often have embedded urls to research. - Jen Dodd

Cameron talking about the Science Blogging Conference. - Michael Nielsen

Debunking bad science: http://badscience.net/ - Michael Nielsen

Science Blogging Conference: http://www.nature.com/naturec... - Jen Dodd

Cameron: phrase bandied about at the conference: "not only are we geeks, we're geeks in an echo chamber" - Jen Dodd

The Science Blogging Challenge: http://blogs.nature.com/wp... - Jen Dodd

Discussion about making research data or methods available. - Jen Dodd

Census data as an example. - Michael Nielsen

Jonathan Walgate: the value of publishing data for negative results, especially in medical studies - Jen Dodd

http://www.patientslikeme.com/ as an example of public knowledge. - Michael Nielsen

Chad: physics needs The Journal of Failed Experiments or The Journal of "I thought that would work" - Jen Dodd

Cameron: journal of failed experiments is a good way of communicating to the public what science is actually like. - Michael Nielsen

Chad: addicted to the feedback (comments) on his blog posts - Jen Dodd

Chad: many more comments (10-100 times as many) on "fluff" posts than on "science" posts. - Jen Dodd

Chad: but it may be that the science posts last better - that they ultimately get a similar number of views as the fluff posts. - Jen Dodd

Chad: a blog poll: "is e or pi your favorite irrational number?" got over 100 coments. - Jen Dodd

Eva: most popular blog post is her post about why bread isn't glue, since both are made of flour and water. - Jen Dodd

Cameron: it turns out that how much of an organic compound you can put in a solvent is not well known. Idea for "chemistry at home". - Jen Dodd

John: open source data crunching - Jen Dodd

define open source data crunching - Deepak Singh

Like open source software development: people incrementally do pieces of the analysis on raw data, share it with each other, analyze other people's contributions, and so forth. - Jen Dodd

... I assume that's what John had in mind - it was an off-hand comment that I found interesting. - Jen Dodd

Eva: what fields are easier to get the public involved in? - Jen Dodd

Michael Nielsen: galaxy zoo http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ is getting the public involved in basic physics. - Jen Dodd

Ecological data as another example. - Jen Dodd

Cameron: weather data too - Jen Dodd

Cameron: DIY bio is a group of people who try to make low-tech home versions of, for example, genotyping set-ups. - Jen Dodd

DIY bio: http://www.diybio.org/ - Jen Dodd

Eva: chemistry sets are being reduced to containing almost nothing. - Jen Dodd

Discussion of open textbooks. - Jen Dodd

Cameron: is there a problem with this idea since scientists currently get little reward (other than monetary) for writing textbooks? - Jen Dodd

TED talk on "Open Textbooks": http://www.ted.com/index... - Victor / Mendeley Team

Site licenses are available to textbooks for libraries. - Jen Dodd

Here is the link to the online textbook whose name I couldn't recall "something with mountain" http://www.motionmountain.net/ - Sabine Hossenfelder