Last Saturday, the Science is Vital campaign took to the streets of London to protest the proposed cuts to British research. Speakers included Evan Harris and Ben Goldacre, and of course the mastermind behind the campaign, Jenny Rohn. Ed Gomez, always the star with a camera, made this neat video of the event. Watch it in HD on YouTube.
Global Poetry System
May 19, 2010 By
Thanks to my good friend Mary in London, I’m taking part in an arts project organised by the South Bank Centre in London called Global Poetry System. Global Poetry System, or GPS, aims “to explore and map the poetry of the world”. On the project’s website you can upload poetry, and tag the location where you found it on a world map. This month, the project launched a new initiative called Analogue Adventures. The project organisers have sent out digital cameras to all corners of the world, asking recipients to snap a picture of whatever inspires them as “poetry” – graffiti, art, signs – and pass the camera on to another volunteer within 48 hours. By the 23rd of June, the camera should make their ways back to London, where the pictures can be developed, uploaded and mapped.
So the little camera made it across the Channel to the Netherlands.
Thanks for Science Online London!
August 28, 2009 By
Last Saturday I attended the Science Online London conference (Solo09) at the Royal Institution in London, an event that brought together a bunch of people involved in science and the web in some shape or form. There were working scientists who blog, like myself, from all areas of science, people working for blogging communities like Scienceblogs.com, representatives from the big publishers in science like Nature, software developers and many more. It was a really fun and interesting meeting and I’m glad that I hopped over the Channel for it.
The evening before I went along to an Unconference hosted by publishing company Mendeley at their office in Clerkenwell. I imagined an Unconference to be something like Fight Club for geeks but in fact it was pretty non-weird – it just means the participants decide the discussion topics on the spot by vote and the format is altogether a little more relaxed. I’m not sure if it’s typical of all Unconferences, but the alcohol a’plenty was also a nice touch. Thanks Mendeley!
I’ve got a couple of posts about the event up my sleeve but I first wanted to post a link to this very useful post on the blog of Martin Fenner, one of the event’s organisers. He’s gathered all the blog posts that have appeared after the conference, including his own thoughts. Go take a look, there’s some excellent stuff there – although there’s so much, I can’t keep up! Lots of good discussion and links in the Science Online FriendFeed room.
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