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Conference blogging by Sci

Wed, 2011-04-27 08:30 -- John Hawks

Scicurious has written a very nice howto giving concrete advice about blogging a conference: "How To Blog a Conference". Lots and lots of good ideas and advice in her post. I admire anyone with the discipline to take notes and do interviews at a conference. It's all I can do to keep up with the schmoozing.

But I would say that the process Sci followed is an excellent strategy for networking and training yourself as an effective communicator of your own science.

Neandertals

For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.

Denisova

From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.

Acceleration

The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.

Malapa

Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.