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Google Scholar adds personal profiles displaying citations

I guess the "make everything social" decree went out to Google Scholar as well.

There is now essentially a scholarly social network built in - individual user profiles displaying citations, links to colleagues.

Today we’re introducing Google Scholar Citations: a simple way for you to compute your citation metrics and track them over time.

...

You can enable automatic addition of your newly published articles to your profile. This would instruct the Google Scholar indexing system to update your profile as it discovers new articles that are likely yours. And you can, of course, manually update your profile by adding missing articles, fixing bibliographic errors, and merging duplicate entries.

You can also create a public profile with your articles and citation metrics

Google Scholar Blog - Google Scholar Citations - July 20, 2011

There's more information at http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

Citations is in limited release, you have to sign up on a waiting list, usual procedures.

Here is the profile for Anurag Acharya: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nGEWZbkAAAAJ&hl=en

Previously:
November 20, 2004  Google Scholar  (my first mention of Scholar, shortly after it was launched)

Britain's Science Minister uses Twitter for two-way discussions

Quite a few politicians have a presence on Twitter -- Barack Obama among them -- but most see it as a tool for advertising their activities rather than interacting with voters. But Lord Drayson, Britain's Science Minister, is different.

Times Online - Science Minister takes to Twitter - June 10, 2009

You can follow him: @lorddrayson

Quantum to Cosmos at Perimeter Institute - October 2009

For 10 exciting days this October, Perimeter Institute’s Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com

http://www.q2cfestival.com/

October 15-25, 2009  Waterloo, Ontario

They have usual blog, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed.

You can attend in person, but I think all events will also be streamed live online.

There's a good list of speakers already.

World Science Festival (New York) 2009

The second annual World Science Festival, a five-day extravaganza of performances, debates, celebrations and demonstrations, including an all-day street fair on Sunday in Washington Square Park, began with a star-studded gala tribute to the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson at Lincoln Center Wednesday night. Over the next three days the curious will have to make painful choices: attend an investigation of the effects of music on the brain with a performance by Bobby McFerrin, or join a quest for a long-lost mural by Leonardo Da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Learn about the science behind “Battlestar Galactica” with actors from the show, or head to one of various panels of scientists and philosophers arguing about free will, alternate universes, science and religion, time and what it means to be human?

New York Times - Science, the Extravaganza - June 11, 2009

It runs June 10-14, 2009 in New York City. See http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ for more information.

science for breakfast on the Hill

"Let's say my arms are the extent of the galaxy and I'm the black hole," she says, gesturing at her head, "our solar system is way out here," pointing at her outstreched hand.

The audience of 60 MPs, Library of Parliament workers, political staffers and scientists watches appreciatively.

Their attention hasn't flickered since she started talking 40 minutes earlier. Even those who haven't done a science course since high school often show up every month or two for a Parliamentary breakfast lecture, like this one on Thursday, from a prominent Canadian scientist.

Ottawa Citizen - Breakfast lessons for MPs bridge science, political gap - June 5, 2009

The series is put on by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering.

has the day come for science in Canada?

At the Ottawa meeting - dubbed Science Day in Canada and organized by the Public Policy Forum - attendees considered points made by two recently released reports, one by an expert panel of the Canadian Council of Academies, the other by the federal Science, Technology and Innovation Council:

• That Canada's private sector lags behind those of most other OECD countries in its financial commitments to research and development;
• That this lag appears to be related to a lack of “innovation strategies” on the part of many Canadian companies rather than some deficiency in government policy or R&D tax incentives;
• That R&D conducted in Canada's public sector, including universities and hospitals, is among the best and best financed (on a per capita basis) in the world;
• That stronger collaboration is required among all components of the innovation chain - researchers, universities, governments and their agencies, businesses and the financial sector - to maximize the return on Canada's R&D investments.

One obstacle to more productive relations between the federal government and the STI community is confusion over exactly how and on what basis the federal government allocates funds to the science-oriented programs, agencies, councils, institutions and projects it supports.

Globe and Mail (online edition only) - Every day is ‘science day' - Preston Manning - June 2, 2009

The Public Policy Forum might want to work on its social media mojo - unless there was a hashtag I don't know about, searching Twitter for "science day" canada brings up all of 5 tweets.

I will have posts up about the CCA and STIC reports sometime this week.

Previously:
December 19, 2007  Preston Manning on federal science policy in Canada

Acfas - La science en français

L’Université d’Ottawa est heureuse d’accueillir, du 11 au 15 mai 2009, le 77e Congrès de l’Acfas, et fière de contribuer ainsi plus que jamais à l’avancement et à la mise en valeur du français dans tous les champs de la connaissance. Notre institution bilingue fait sa part en se classant 5e au Canada en termes d’intensité de la recherche scientifique. Aux portes du Québec et au cœur de la capitale canadienne, l’Université d’Ottawa vous invite à explorer un campus où se vit tous les jours la dualité linguistique de notre pays. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus: http://www.acfas.ca/ ou http://www.acfas.ca/congres/a_propos.html ou http://www.acfas.ca/congres/2009/pages/grilles.html

via email from / par courriel de Jacynthe de Saint-Hilaire

Some Ideas on the Future of Government Science - May 14, 2009 - Armchair Discussion - Canada School of Public Service

This is just copied verbatim (with minor format changes) from the Facebook notice.

To register to attend in person:
http://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/cat/det-eng.asp?courseno=S225

To register to attend the webcast:
http://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/cat/det-eng.asp?courseno=E225

(It's for public servants, so if you don't have a PRI #, I don't think you can sign up.)

Host: Canada School of Public Service - École de la fonction publique
Type: Education - Workshop
Network: Global
Date: 14 May 2009
Time: 08:30 - 09:45
Location:
CSPS Headquarters
65 Guigues Street
Ottawa, ON

Phone: 6139435632
Email: Dean.Landry@csps-efpc.gc.ca

Description

Learn about the evolution of government science and the challenges facing science-based departments and agencies, and science managers, in the current environment. This discussion will focus primarily on public policy and will be especially beneficial to people working in science-based departments and agencies or who are involved in the management of science, policy and related programs in government.

After working as a university lecturer for many years, in 1978, Jim Mitchell began a government career where he had experience in the analysis and resolution of complex public policy issues. He was also a principal advisor on the 1993 reorganization of the federal government.

After leaving the public service, Jim Mitchell became a founding partner of the policy-consulting firm Sussex Circle. Now as a consultant, Mr. Mitchell provides policy and organizational advice in virtually every area of federal responsibility including defence, science and agriculture. In his lecture, Mr. Mitchell will be drawing from this experience to talk about the challenges and opportunities facing government science and the science community.

Speaker: Jim Mitchell, Founding Partner, Sussex Circle

Ottawa Tulip Fest 2009 - Celebridée events with science content

I don't have any details about these, but from my reading of the schedule, the science-y ones look to be

The Environment: Individuals Making A Difference (In English) 

Sunday, May 3 @ 2 p.m.

Tulip Festival Mirror Tent 

(free admission) 

The Perimeter Institute: The Physics of Innovation (In English)

Tuesday, May 5 @ 2 p.m.

Tulip Festival Mirror Tent 

$18 (Adult)

$12 (Student)

$38 (Reserved Section)

UPDATE 2009-05-05: Andre sent me some descriptive text

With Dr. Richard Epp of the Perimeter Institute Outreach Team

Where does technology come from? Because computers, cell phones, DVD players and countless other innovations are completely integrated into our daily lives, few of us stop to think how such technological marvels are possible. The answer, of course, is physics! Since all technology is ultimately subject to the laws of physics – the “gears and wheels” of how our universe works – the better we understand those laws, the more powerful and beneficial the technologies we can create.

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For Physics event >> Click here to purchase tickets 

The Environment: What Should We be Doing? (In English)

with Elizabeth May

Wednesday, May 13 @ 2 p.m.

Tulip Festival Mirror Tent 

$10 (Adult)

$8 (Student)

$20 (Reserved Section)

For Elizabeth May event >> Click here to purchase tickets 

This is not at all to say there aren't many other interesting talks - as you might imagine, there are a few on the financial crisis, this one seems particularly apropos:

Tulipomania: The Dutch Tulip Bulb Crisis of 1637 (In English)

with Jules Muis and Mike Dash

Saturday, May 9 @ 10 a.m.

Tulip Festival Mirror Tent 

(free admission)

The ubiquitous Michael Geist will also be speaking  

Surveillance (In English) 

with Michael Geist and/et David Lyons

Sunday, May 17 @ 7:30 p.m.

Tulip Festival Mirror Tent 

$18 (Adult)

$12 (Student)

$38 (Reserved Section)

For Surveillance event >> Click here to purchase tickets 

Science in Peril in Canada?

TVO's The Agenda had a focus on science policy yesterday.  There were two reports:

• The reverse brain drain: Carmen Charette's report card on the Canada research chair program.
• "Funding the future in Canada and in America: the cross-border war over science dollars."

The video is available online; I have embedded the second report below (minus the invisible web bug that gigya added)

Ottawa Writers Festival Spring 2009 - Science and Big Ideas

There are lots of authors coming to the Spring Writers Festival, I am just highlighting the science ones below.  You can see the full programme at

http://www.writersfestival.org/events.html

You have to pay, except some events are free for Carleton students.

Wednesday April 22, 2009 - 7 PM - Earth Day - New Science Series: Washing the Water

Alanna Mitchell discusses Seasick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean;

Wayne Grady discusses The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region

Thursday April 23, 2009 - 7 PM - The Big Idea: Carbon Shift

Join editor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, and contributor William Marsden, author of Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn’t Seem to Care) for a conversation on their new book Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future.

Sunday April 26, 2009 - 2 PM - New Science Series: How Mathematics Orders Our Lives - with Jason I. Brown, hosted by Stephen Brockwell

Thursday April 30, 2009 - noon - Masterclass Series: Why Poetry Antimatters - Metaphor, Entanglement and Particle Poetics

Join two stellar poets for a team Masterclass on poetry. Jeramy Dodds, recently shortlisted for the Griffin Prize, and Matthew Tierney, author of The Hayflick Unit and Full speed through the morning dark, for an exploration of the intersection of science and poetry.

Saturday May 2, 2009 - 4 PM - New Science Series - Cyburbia: Consciousness, Communication and Community in the Digital Age

The way we live has apparently been transformed by new ways of communicating. But where did these trends start? And if they can change our behaviour, can they also change the way we think? In Cyburbia James Harkin describes how the architecture of our digital lives was built over seventy years.

I have also added these events to LibraryThing, you can see them e.g. attached to the Saint Brigid's venue:

http://www.librarything.com/venue/40511

It was a bit of a pain transcribing all this stuff - organisations need to get smarter about providing information in machine-readable formats.  I can't think of an easier standard format than calendars.  Jon Udell is trying to address some of this with his community calendar project.

The Scholarly Communication Problem

I arrived late to the JISC Libraries of the Future online video stream, so this may not be a full picture of the discussion, but what I heard was mainly the Scholarly Communication Problem.  This problem is extremely well known and I have heard it talked about--forgive me--endlessly, without (m)any solutions proposed.  It goes like this:

Universities / research organisations pay researchers.
Funders grant money to researchers.
Universities / research organisations give money to libraries.

So far so good.  Then a strange dance:
researchers submit work to publishers who perform several functions:

• they assemble the various files together (text, charts, figures etc.)
• they select notable papers
• they send them out for peer review and manage the review (e.g. ensuring comments are in on time)
• they edit the copy itself for clarity and do QA
• they apply necessary metadata, get a DOI etc.
• they do layout on the copy so it looks nice

They don't actually perform the peer review, this is done by the reseachers.

Then libraries and funders pay publishers for this bundle of services, despite the fact that one chunk (peer review) is performed by the researchers.  Funders may also pay extra for OA, or sometimes journals have direct fees for publishing at all.

The impact factor of publications lends a certain authority, and is then used in determining both individual and institutional "worthiness".  This necessity of publication drives what I believe the gentleman from Harvard called a "cocaine marketplace" - once you're hooked by publishers, they can keep raising and raising the prices.

Then funders and libraries may pay AGAIN, to have the researcher submit the document to the repository followed by what is essentially a mini-publishing workflow run by librarians - again assembling the files together, again doing QA, applying necessary metadata and perhaps assigning a handle.

So: organisations effectively pay researchers to research, to peer review, and to submit to journals,
and then pay the publishers to get their own research back.  They maybe pay researchers and a bunch of other people to do this in a mini-version again, paying to get their own research back, in their own repository.  So paying for the same research two or three times.

THIS PROBLEM IS WELL KNOWN

Talking about these over and over and over again does nothing to solve this problem.  In fact I think talking about this any more without providing concrete (preferably implemented) solutions should be banned.

To fix it you:
1) identify what services researchers could self-organise (or be organised by libraries) to perform, like peer review
2) identify what, if any services from publishers are still needed, and pay only for those
3) go directly to public OA publishing of the peer-reviewed manuscript
4) find a new way to measure the "worthiness" of individual researcher and organisation output

There are lots of people who have identified this issue, I can submit my thoughts from three years ago - June 21, 2006 - my article on peer review for Nature.

There are a small number of groups taking a "just do it" approach to solving this problem.  There need to be many more.  There's also a whole set of related issues, like how to you manage versions in this environment, how do you manage discoverability when content may be all over the place, and how do you think about "notability" when a document may be an ongoing dynamic collaboration, rather than a static final publication with a fixed set of authors.  And this is not even touching the issues of "data as publication".  There's plenty of work to be done.

Carleton Science Café talk on LHC is up

The Large Hadron Collider: A particle smasher designed to answer the fundamental question about our Universe

Listen to the Science Cafe podcast featuring Louise Heelan

View the powerpoint presentation by Louise Heelan

Speaker: Louise Heelan, PhD candidate
department of physics

Minor note: as is often the case, what is just an MP3 audio file is called a "podcast", although there doesn't seem to be any way to subscribe to it.

From Carleton Science Café archives.

A bunch more are coming up, including "Leonardo Da Vinci and his mathematics" on April 22, 2009.

Previously:
March 11, 2009  Large Hadron Collider at Carleton Science Cafe

CISTI in Google Scholar and Facebook - official news

I always have to walk a fine line because it takes a while for official messages to be approved in the Government of Canada. We've got some approved releases, so therefore I'm happy to now be able to safely enter

<marketing-mode>

Ottawa, ON, March 23, 2009 – NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is meeting the research community where they work through our new collaboration with Google Scholar.

CISTI Media Room - Google Scholar

Ottawa, ON, March 23, 2009 – In an effort to generate awareness about the products and services offered by NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), NRC-CISTI is now on Facebook.

CISTI Media Room - NRC-CISTI on Facebook

</marketing-mode>

Galileo would have been a blogger

Observing with his 20-power telescope in late 1609 and early 1610, writing a letter about what he observed on 7 January 1610, and publishing in book form a first ever description of phenomena such as Jupiter's moons, just 9 weeks later.

Galileo continued his observations of the new planets [moons] as the printing progressed. His last observation is dated 2 March 1610.

On 13 March 1610 he sent an unbound copy to the Tuscan court, with a properly bound copy following on 19 March 1610. The book was Sidereus Nuncius, usually translated as Sidereal Messenger, although I prefer the more evocative Starry Messenger.

How's that for time between observations and publication.

The book is a short and clear read, full of excitement.
I was inspired to read it after hearing quotes from it in the amazing Tafelmusik Galileo Project.
It's a pleasure to be able to blog about it, almost 400 years later.

Accordingly, on the seventh day of January of the present year 1610, at the first hour of the night, when I inspected the celestial constellations through a spyglass, Jupiter presented himself. And since I had prepared for myself a superlative instrument, I saw (which earlier had not happened because of the weakness of the other instruments) that three little stars were positioned near him--small but yet very bright.

ICSTI 2009 - Managing Data for Science

The ICSTI 2009 conference has a great lineup of speakers on its programme.  (I can't claim any responsibility for this, since while my organisation has helped with planning the conference, my small personal contribution has just been a few suggestions about the web presence.)

Many of the names you may recognize from enthusiastic blog postings of mine, so as you can imagine, I'm looking forward to going.  Speakers mentioned in this blog (with a link to the relevant posting) include

• Francine Berman (ARL library escience theme presentations - October 9, 2006)
• Richard Boulderstone (BioMed Central OA event presentations, BMC blog - March 7, 2007)
• Jan Brase (system for easy access to sci info using DOIs - Jan Brase - June 11 - IATUL 2007 - June 11, 2007)
• Lee Dirks (data-driven science - Lee Dirks - June 22 - ICSTI 2007 Nancy - June 22, 2007)
• Liz Lyon (presentations on e-Science and e-Biz workflow, and research data preservation - March 31, 2006)
• Paul Uhlir (the concepts of open science and information commons - September 8, 2006)

The event will be June 9-10, 2009 at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.  Early registration ends March 31.  I think it will be a great opportunity to discuss science data, e-science, and the roles that our libraries can play.  I am using tag icsti2009.  I hope to see many of you there.

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Large Hadron Collider at Carleton Science Cafe

I didn't know Carleton had Science Cafe events.

There's one today (March 11) about mold.

The next one is

The Large Hadron Collider: A particle smasher designed to answer the fundamental question about our Universe
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Louise Heelan, PhD candidate, department of physics

Even better, it's at the Wild Oats Cafe at Bank and 4th (817 Bank), which is closer (to downtown) than the Carleton Campus itself. 6:30 - 7:30 PM.

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via Apartment 613

a thousand words?

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=a+thousand+words&hl=en&lr=

Note: AFAIK you must use either scholar.google.ca or be in Canada to see all aspects of this result.

UPDATE: If you want a search that will take you more directly to the PDF option http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Simulations+of+the+2.5D+inviscid+primitive+equations+in+a+limited+domain&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search

UPDATE 2009-02-27: If you want to see a third type of result, try http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Biochemistry+and+molecular+cell+biology+of+diabetic+complications&hl=en&lr=

CIHR Café scientifique - Ottawa - March 24, 2009

Date:	24 March 2009
Time:	18:00 - 20:00
Location: La Nouvelle Scène
Street: 333 King Edward Avenue
Town/City:	Ottawa

Email: cafescientifique@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Topic is

Whose Life is it Anyway? Assisted Suicide in Canada

Most of us see death as the final act of life’s drama and many people want that last act to end on their own terms. But what happens if we are too sick? Should a doctor be allowed to prescribe lethal pills for us? Or would a government that allowed this be failing to protect us at our most vulnerable time? Canadian law currently forbids physicians from helping patients kill themselves, but legal changes may be on their way. Let us know what you think: Would legalizing physician-assisted suicide be progress, or a turn down the wrong road?

The main CIHR Café Scientifique page doesn't seem to have been updated, but the event is available on Facebook.

UPDATE 2009-02-28: There will be a second café in Ottawa on March 31, 2009.

Date:	31 March 2009
Time:	17:30 - 19:30
Location:	Don Cherry’s Sports Grill
Street:	290 Rideau Street

"The Strong, Silent Type: Men’s Mental Health and Illness"

It is also not on the main CIHR page yet, but is available on Facebook.

Tafelmusik Galileo Project + Royal Astronomical Society in Ottawa

Did you know that Galileo's father composed music?  Hear it on March 6, 2009 as part of Tafelmusik's Galileo Project, then afterwards have a look at the night sky with the Royal Astronomical Society.

The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres is an orchestral concert programme [featuring] Tafelmusik’s multidisciplinary celebration of the International Year of Astronomy and the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first use of the astronomical telescope. The glorious music of Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Vincenzo Galilei (father of the astronomer) will be interwoven with Inuit drawings of the northern lights, astronomical photographs and a narrated script taken from the writings of Galileo, Isaac Newton and other great astronomers.

Ottawa Chamber Music Society Concert 6: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

Tafelmusik's Galileo Project page has additional information, including detailed programme notes.  Tafelmusik is Toronto-based, they have tour dates coming in Canada and the USA.

Friday, March 6 2009
7:30 pm
Dominion Chalmers United Church
(355 Cooper Street)
Ottawa, Ontario

After the concert: star-gazing with the Royal Astronomical Society.

There are a variety of price bands, going as low as $15.  See Ottawa Chamber Music Society - Ticketing.

UPDATE 2009-03-08: The concert was extraordinary.  I was sceptical of the multimedia part, but I was looking forward to the music.  My scepticism was totally unfounded - the concert is a seamless integration of spoken word, music, and images projected on an unusual circular screen.  More than that: Eppur si muove - the musicians have memorised their parts entirely, which enables them to move around on the stage, like a sort of human orrery.  As well they used the space of the church extremely well - including in one case Venus as the morning and evening star - two musicians up in the balconies on each side of the church.  To be able to see some of the best Baroque musicians in the world perform in this amazing piece in a church just a few blocks from my house was a great privilege.  I highly recommend this performance if you have a chance to see it.  If not, the entire concert (including the narration) is available from the CBC as an audio stream (in Windows Media format, which may be problematic on the Mac).

Tafelmusik's The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres · CBC Radio 2 - Concerts On Demand

I agree for the most part with Richard Todd's review in the Citizen, except his comment "Only a few of the pieces on offer had any obvious astronomical associations" is bizarre as the entire programme reveals how much of a role the planets and planetary mythology played in the music and writing of the 17th and 18th centuries.  It was fascinating to hear the words of Galileo from Starry Messenger in which in very clear language he talked in one breath of art and in the next of science.  The end of the concert, connecting the prediction of the return of Halley's Comet based on Newton's insights into gravity and mathematics to the ordered music of Bach, showed how truly connected the worlds of art and science can be.

Discovering Chimpanzees at the Canadian Museum of Nature

January 30 to May 3, 2009

Through four distinct sections of the exhibition, discover how Dr. Goodall's relationship with the chimps evolves from one of strictly scientific interest to one of devotion and a firm commitment to chimpanzee survival.

Discovering Chimpanzees: The Remarkable World of Jane Goodall - nature.ca

The exhibit, which opened at the end of January, is inspired by the work of legendary observational biologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, who has spent more than 40 years observing chimpanzees and spearheading conservation efforts worldwide.

Visitors to the exhibit can learn what it’s like to be a chimpanzee by digging for imaginary termites, climbing into a chimpanzee nest and taking pictures with life-sized cut-outs of various primates.

They can also visit a replica of Goodall’s tent in Gombe National Park and read about what they can do to stop chimpanzees and other primates from going extinct.

Centretown News - February 5, 2009

NRC Personal Learning Environment project is hiring

via Stephen Downes
(NRC = National Research Council Canada)

The R&D activities will focus across two dimensions: how access to a wide variety of learning opportunities can best be managed in an online environment; and how technologies can be assembled to best provide seamless access to a large variety of educational resources and services. In essence, the scientific problem is one of designing an educational infrastructure based on future best practices and then developing an educational application that will work within that infrastructure. The positions, which are for three years, include:

• Researcher specializing in education and pedagogy
• Researcher specializing in art, design and new media
• Researcher specializing in library and information management
• Technology specialist with an emphasis on database support
• Technology specialist with an emphasis on application development

Darwin Week - February 2009 - Carleton University

Carleton University will present a series of public lectures during the week of February 12 [2009], celebrating the impact and legacy of Charles Darwin on western thought and culture.

Well, actually the first event is on February 9, when scientist and author Daniel C. Dennett (also see on LibraryThing) will speak.

"Darwin and the Evolution of Reasons"

Time and Place: 8 p.m., Kailash Mital Theatre (map), Southam Hall, Carleton Campus

Evolution by natural selection not only accounts for the apparent design of the biological world; it explains the emergence of intelligent designers like us, acting on reasons that we formulate and evaluate....

http://www.carleton.ca/fass/darwinweek/lectures/

Note: This venue is not to be confused with Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre.  The event is taking place on the Carleton Campus, not at the NAC.

Good news: This event will coincide with Winterlude, a winter festival in Ottawa.

Bad news: This event may coincide with the ongoing bus strike in Ottawa (as of Wednesday January 28, 2009, the strike is in its 50th day).  UPDATE 2009-01-31: Although the bus strike has now ended, February 9 is the first day that buses will be running, so there will be limited bus service.  END UPDATE

More info about the event at

http://www.carleton.ca/darwinweek

initial pointer via Ottawa International Writers Festival in Facebook

science book audio from Ottawa International Writers Festival

Lots of great audio of authors talking about their books, including

• Gwynne Dyer talking about Climate Wars
• Leonard Susskind on Black Holes, October 24, 2008

science networking online

A good presentation by Neil Saunders that covers the benefits of an online presence for scientists.

What can science networking online do for you

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: blog twitter)