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By: Emily Anthes

Hear, hear! (And perhaps the reason most of us spend the whole year sitting alone in a silent room is because it takes that long to recover from the utter exhaustion that is ScienceOnline.)

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By: Brian Malow

Well-put, Ed! This was my second year and certainly won’t be my last (assuming I can be quick enough on the draw to make the cut!). And one of my fondest memories will be how the conference officially...

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By: Ed Yong

Aw, yeah, that was nice, wasn’t it? “I’ve come from foreign lands and I bring you physical contact and fresh contagion!”

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By: Dirk Hanson

Really, man, Patient Zero arrives. You weren’t even quarantined?

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By: aidel

I think it works because despite the differences that do exist among us — from the fundamental ideological ones to nit-picky matters of taste — there is a strong undercurrent of unconditional positive...

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By: aimee w

Man, what I would do to be able to get to this one day. Damn you, NZ, for being so far away! Sounds like it was fantastic, and I’m certainly making sure all the science communication peeps with whom I...

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By: Brian Malow

Ed, it really was. It was a great kickoff to the whole conference. And embracing you and your foreign contagions – for which I probably have no immunity – was a fitting prelude to eventually seeing...

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By: Jason G. Goldman

Brian: at least for other academic/scientific conferences, i think part of it is that scientists go to those conferences explicitly to tell other people things that they know and other people...

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By: David Dobbs

I think Jason has it right: The steady message, via the unconference idea, that it’s a relatively level playing field — or, as someone put it on Twitter, that it’s not experts and non-experts, but...

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By: Brian Malow

Jason and David: YES. Good points.

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By: Emily Anthes

Hear, hear! (And perhaps the reason most of us spend the whole year sitting alone in a silent room is because it takes that long to recover from the utter exhaustion that is ScienceOnline.)

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By: Brian Malow

Well-put, Ed! This was my second year and certainly won’t be my last (assuming I can be quick enough on the draw to make the cut!). And one of my fondest memories will be how the conference officially...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

By: Ed Yong

Aw, yeah, that was nice, wasn’t it? “I’ve come from foreign lands and I bring you physical contact and fresh contagion!”

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By: Dirk Hanson

Really, man, Patient Zero arrives. You weren’t even quarantined?

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By: aidel

I think it works because despite the differences that do exist among us — from the fundamental ideological ones to nit-picky matters of taste — there is a strong undercurrent of unconditional positive...

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By: aimee w

Man, what I would do to be able to get to this one day. Damn you, NZ, for being so far away! Sounds like it was fantastic, and I’m certainly making sure all the science communication peeps with whom I...

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By: Brian Malow

Ed, it really was. It was a great kickoff to the whole conference. And embracing you and your foreign contagions – for which I probably have no immunity – was a fitting prelude to eventually seeing...

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By: Jason G. Goldman

Brian: at least for other academic/scientific conferences, i think part of it is that scientists go to those conferences explicitly to tell other people things that they know and other people...

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By: David Dobbs

I think Jason has it right: The steady message, via the unconference idea, that it’s a relatively level playing field — or, as someone put it on Twitter, that it’s not experts and non-experts, but...

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By: Brian Malow

Jason and David: YES. Good points.

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