For those who are in Oxford these days for parallel conferences that are happening around (TransferSummit/UK, BarCamp), I want to let you know that I’m giving a talk at the interdisciplinary conference on ‘Problems of Adolescence”. Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood is organising one day event, this Saturday, 26 June …
Category: Science
Networking and participating: Social media for scientists
Tomorrow morning I’m giving an hour session for scientists who want to get familiar with collaborative social media tools for the next three days of the conference ScienceOnline. You know that I was here [Research Triangle Park, NC] last year and that we talked about open access in developed countries, …
Relationships and the Internet
For those in UK, don’t miss this weeks’ OII forum on Relationships and the Internet, that will take place this Friday, 4 December at 10am, followed by the public panel at 4pm. The forum will gather researchers in the fields of social networking, online dating, practitioners from a growing and international …
upcoming conference ScienceOnline 2010
Those who’ve been lucky to attend and participate [moi!] in this years conference SciOnline09, traditionally held in January every year at Research Triangle Park, Sigma Xi, NC/ US, could learn a lot, meet great interesting people from different fields of activity and brainstorm, create new ideas, projects. Even more, all …
International conference for Digital libraries and Semantic Web 2009
If you’ve recently noticed on my Twitter statuses mentioning ICSD2009 and reviewing papers and communicating with other reviewers and scientists, it was because two weeks ago I was denoted a role of Programme Committee member for the scientific conference on digital libraries and semantic web. Since I’ve never been before …
I will be joining Oxford Internet Institute this fall!
“So, you can take the girl out of academia, but you can’t take the academia out of the girl, eh?” Those were the words of a friend of mine after I announced the news. Well, guess who can has PhD scholarship? Last year I applied for Oxford PhD scholarships for …
Follow Friday: Twitter’s display of relations affection?
I got in the previous weeks the feedback by known or unknown Twitterers who are “Follow Friday”-ing me by displaying, recommending to the others my Twitter ID for various reasons, mostly because they think people they recommend are cool or worthwhile following. Since this communication practice repeated last Friday, I’ve …