Wednesday, 18 January 2011
MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass. (Dining Room East)
5:30 pm — Munchies and schmoozing
6:30 – 8:30 pm — Panel discussion

• Bob Buderi, founder of Xconomy (http://www.xconomy.com/) (@Xconomy)
• Carey Goldberg, co-host of WBUR CommonHealth (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/) (@commonhealth)
• Gabrielle Strobel, executive editor of AlzForum (http://alzforum.org/)
• Ethan Zuckerman, founder of Global Voices (http://globalvoicesonline.org/) (@globalvoices)
• Panel moderator: Alison Bass, health care blogger at http://alison-bass.com/blog/ (@AlisonBBass)

The future of health, science and technology journalism is being forged, in part, by several reporters and editors in the Boston area who have taken the lead in creating online news operations serving specific audiences in new ways.

Some have figured out a way to become sustainable in a short time. Others are still searching for long-term viability. This event features journalists who have built robust audiences using different editorial strategies, staffing tactics and business models.

The panelists will discuss what works, what doesn’t work, and what’s changing. Hear their stories and discuss the ideas and experiences that are shaping the future of how people will be informed and engaged about health, science and technology for decades to come.

RSVP at https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nesw&formId=112835
$15 for NESW members and 2011-12 Knight fellows
$20 for guest attendees
NOTE: Registration is limited to the first 100 people who RSVP online.

Organized by Carol Cruzan Morton (@carolmorton) and Alison Bass.
Thanks to Knight Science Journalism at MIT for providing the audiovisual equipment.

Wednesday, 18 January 2011
Building Online Communities in Health, Science and Technology News
MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass.

• Bob Buderi, founder of Xconomy
• Carey Goldberg, co-host of WBUR CommonHealth
• Gabrielle Strobel, executive editor of AlzForum
• Ethan Zuckerman, founder of Global Voices

• Panel moderator: Alison Bass, health care blogger

UPDATE (1/9/12): Register now at https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nesw&formId=112835

Cost:
$15 for NESW members and 2011-12 Knight fellows
$20 for guest attendees

Didn’t get an email? We recently purged the member database of long-expired memberships and non-member event attendees.

To get back in the loop, click on the on the join button to the left to re-up your membership.

When: 2 pm, Saturday, June 18

Where: New Bedford Whaling Museum, downtown New Bedford ($10 per person at the door)

Who: Ocean engineer Hanumant Singh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and
Marine biologist Kevin Stokesbury, School for Marine Science & Technology, UMass Dartmouth

Reception:  4:30-5:30 pm, at a pub up the street (cash bar).

RSVP: to organizer Ann Parson parson-a (at) verizon.net by June 14 (or call 508-984-1955). Parking & bus information upon RSVP.

Updated 24 March 2011

Books & Blogging: Gutenberg Meets Google (and WordPress and Twitter…)
Thursday, 24 March 2011
6 pm  Schmoozing
6:45 – 8:15 pm  Panel discussion
Harvard University, Cambridge
Room 307 Pierce Hall, 22 Oxford St.

NOTE: Limited public parking at street meters (map-directions).
Stay tuned to NESW email and http://neswonline.com for updates.

The panelists:

• Yvonne Carts-Powell
Author of The Science of Heroes: The Real-life possibilities behind the Hit TV Show (Berkeley Press 2008)
Blog and book website: http://scienceofheroes.wordpress.com
Her blog started as a way to market her new book, but con tinues as venue for cool science, nature, technology, and science fiction on screen and in print.

• Elizabeth Dougherty
Author of The Blind Pig: A novel (School Street Books 2010)
Book blog: http://writtenbyelizabethdougherty.com/
Publishing blog: http://addverses.com/
At “Contribute A Verse: On writing and publishing in the digital age,” Elizabeth Dougherty reflects on the joys and woes of writing (and revising) fiction, self-publishing (ebook and print-on-demand) and book publicity. Her book blog covers events and related current science

• Maryn McKenna
Author of SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2010)
Superbug Blog: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/superbug
Book website: http://marynmckenna.com/SUPERBUG.html
McKenna began Superbug the blog in Feb. 2007, immediately after signing the contract for SUPERBUG the book. Her intentions: To declare her turf on the subject, build an audience and crowdsource her reporting. After the book launch, the blog expanded to all antibiotic resistance, hospital infections and medical errors, and especially food and agriculture policy. In September 2010, Superbug joined the Wired Science Blogs’s new “science all stars” network.

• Douglas Starr
Author of The Killer of Little Shepherds: A true crime story and the birth of forensic science (Knopf 2010)
Blog: http://douglasstarr.com/blog/
Book website: http://douglasstarr.com/
Starr has used a handful of “Science, Crime and the Human Condition” blog posts to showcase issues in his new book, but finds that he still gravitates to Old Media when it’s time to sink his teeth into a topic.

• Moderator:  Stefanie Friedhoff
Freelance journalist & Special Projects Manager at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

• Organizer:  Carol Cruzan Morton
Freelance journalist and science writer

Courtesy gazzaPax/Creative Commons License.

About 50 people joined us at the Harvard Faculty Club 19 January 2011 for our health and science journalism blogging panel.

The video and audio of the event are now available at MIT Tech TV, thanks to the generous support of the National Association of Science Writers. The video was produced by Dianne Finch and filmed by Finch and Arezu Sarvestani. Finch is the multimedia manager at the Knight Science Journalism program.

The panel featured:

• Moderator Alison Bass
• Daniel Carlat:  The Carlat Psychiatry Blog: Promoting honesty in medical education
• Ivan Oransky: Embargo Watch: Keeping an eye on how scientific information embargoes affect news coverage; Retraction Watch: Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
• Gary Schwitzer, HealthNewsReview Blog
• Rachel Zimmerman, CommonHealth: Reform and reality

A more detailed write-up with many link mentioned in the talk can be found at Gravity Surfing. The blogging event organized by freelance journalist Carol Cruzan Morton. Additional assistance at the event was provided by Boston University graduate students Emily Greenhalgh, Arezu Sarvestani and Kristen Stivers.

VIDEO NOTES:

• Optimal viewing: Update your Adobe Flash Player.
• Thin walls: In the video and the audio, the nonsequitur clapping and laughing comes from a different event in the room next door.

The panel features:

* Daniel Carlat (http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com)
* Ivan Oransky (http://embargowatch.wordpress.com, http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com)
* Gary Schwitzer (http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/)
* Rachel Zimmerman (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/)
Moderated by Alison Bass (http://alison-bass.blogspot.com/)

Panelists will talk about why they blog and how it’s helped them gain an audience and better establish themselves as credible experts in their fields. They will provide tips on how to blog and build up  readership and discuss how blogs fit into the larger universe of health and science journalism. We’re planning lots of time for discussion.

Harvard Faculty Club (Cambridge)
5:30 pm  Munchies and beverages
6:30 – 8 pm  Panel and discussion
$15 for NESW members
$25 for non members

To sign up go to:  http://bit.ly/eDxKfA.

Link and address for directions and transportation to Harvard Faculty Club will be sent in confirmation email. NOTE: If driving allow ample time to navigate Harvard Square traffic and to search for elusive parking spots.

Organized by Carol Cruzan Morton and Alison Bass

Monday December 6th, 2010.
12pm
“The Neural Bases of integrative Moral Judgment”
Joshua Greene of Harvard
Location: Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 353, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
http://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/resources/activities/[field_speaker-title]-neural-bases-integrative-moral-judgment

Monday December 6th, 2010.
4pm
“Taking a page from Nature: Materials Crafted from Molecules”
Aaron Esser-Kahn, University of Illinois
Location: MIT Building 6-120
http://chemcalendar.mit.edu/index.php?cal_id=1391&calendar=month&year=2010&month=12

Monday December 6th, 2010.
4pm
“Cosmic Explosions, Hot Dust, and the Instruments that Observe Them”
Ori Fox of NASA Goddard SFC.
Location: College of Arts and Sciences Room 502, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor.
http://www.bu.edu/iar/seminars/current-seminars/

Monday December 6th, 2010.
4.30pm
“Geometry and the Brain: Patterns in the brain-cortical organization”
L. Madadevan MIT
Location: MIT Building 46-3002
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/calendar.php?calendar=single&id=12785574

Monday December 6th, 2010.
7pm
“Creative Ceilings: How We Use Errors, Failure and Physical Limitations as Catalysts for Culinary Innovation”
David Chang
Location: Science Center D, One Oxford St, Cambridge MA
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Tuesday December 7th, 2010.
2.30pm
“Making Nuclear Energy Suitable for More of the World’s Energy Supply”
Matthew Bunn of Harvard Belfer Center
Location: HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

Tuesday December 7th, 2010.
3.30pm
“The Electrons in Your Pencil: Observations of a Carbon Flatland”
Michael Crommie of University of California, Berkeley
Location: SCI 107, Boston University Physics Department, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA.
http://physics.bu.edu/events/series/colloquia
Tuesday December 7th, 2010.
3pm
“Electrophysiological measures of word processing during reading”
Phillip Holcomb, Tufts University
Location: 1st Floor Conference Room, Building 75, Martinos Center, 149 Thirteenth Street, Suite 2301, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129.
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/training/mbc-schedule.php

Tuesday December 7th, 2010.
6.30pm
“Brain Science and Society: Thinking about the Future”
Steven Hyman, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Provost of Harvard
Location: Harvard Allston Education Portal, 175 North Harvard St, Boston MA
http://calendar.boston.com/boston-ma/events/show/154432625-brain-science-society-thinking-about-the-future

Wednesday December 8th, 2010.
6pm
“BioMap2”
Andy Finton, Director, Conservation Science Conservancy
Location: Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 100, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/2010-12-08/nature-conservancy-and-biomap2-protecting-resilient-ecosystems

Wednesday December 8th, 2010.
5.30pm
NESW HOLIDAY DINNER!
Location: Johnny D’s Restaurant and Music Club, 17 Holland St. Davis Square Somerville
Cost $15 per person (NESW members, Knights, Boot Campers) and $20 for other guests; price includes non-alcoholic beverages. Deadline to register is today (Friday).
https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nesw&formId=92574

Thursday December 9th, 2010.
4pm
“The Formation of Massive Stars”
Chris McKee of Harvard
Location: Harvard-Smitsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium, Building D, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/

Thursday December 8th, 2010.
6pm
“Our ‘Grand’ Genome”
Panel with Kevin Davies, George Church, Philip Reilly
Cost $35
Location: 500 Technology Square, First Floor Conference Room
http://tbngrandgenome.eventbrite.com/

Thursday December 8th, 2010.
8pm
“Discovering near-Earth Asteroids”
Grant Stokes
Location: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA.
http://www.atmob.org/events/clubmeetings.php?id=426

Friday December 10th, 2010
1pm “Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind”
Dan Dennett
Location: B 19 (Basement) 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
http://www.neuphi.com/index.php/meetings/

Saturday December 11th, 2010.
2pm
“Capturing Fossils with Pencil and Paper”
Erica Beade Science-Art.com
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids_classes/index.php#drawing

Sunday December 12th, 2010.
2pm
“The Life of Rice”
Richard Sobol
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php

Monday, November 22, 2010
12:30 PM
“The Search for New GeV-scale Forces”
Rouven Essig of SLAC
Location: Boston University, 3 Cummington St., room 595, Boston MA.
http://physics.bu.edu/events/series/pf

Monday, November 22, 2010
2:00 PM
“Cold atom simulations of Quantum Field Theories”
Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds. UK
Location: MIT Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars/seminars_NP.html

Monday November 22nd, 2010.
2.30pm
“Pollution permits and the evolution of market structure”
Location: MIT Building E62-650
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11619778&date=2010/11/22

Monday, November 22, 2010
4:00 PM
“Better Theory Predictions for the LHC”
Frank Tackmann, MIT
Location: MIT Building 26-414 (Kolker Room)
http://www-lns.mit.edu/seminars/nppc.html

Monday, November 22, 2010
4:15 PM
Mastering Jets: New Windows into the Strong Interaction and Beyond”
Iain Stewart of MIT
Location: Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

Monday November 22nd, 2010.
7pm
“Here is a human being: at the dawn of personal genetics”
Misha Agrist, of the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.
Location: Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
http://harvardcoopbooks.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBcalendarEventListView?storeId=52084&showStoreId=52084&catalogId=10001&eventMonth=10&eventYear=2010

Monday November 22nd, 2010.
7pm
“Lobsters and their kids on the move in the Gulf of Maine”
Jason Goldstein, Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire
Location:
http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_lecture_series/index.php

Monday November 22nd, 2010.
7pm
“Einstein’s relativity”
Tereasa Brainard of Boston University Astronomy Department
Location: Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge MA.
http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/?page_id=952

Tuesday, November 23, 2010
12pm
“Hunting for Dark Matter with Directional detection of dark matter with DMTPC”
James Battat, MIT
Location: MIT Building 26-414 (Kolker Room)
http://www2.lns.mit.edu/seminars/lunchtime.html

Tuesday November 23rd, 2010.
12pm
“Learning About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell.”
Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School
Location: Northwest B-103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.
http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/NewsEvents/Calendar/Month.asp

Tuesday, November 23, 2010
2:30 pm
“The cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics”
Max Tegmark of MIT
Location: Tufts University Robinson 250
http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html

Tuesday November 23rd, 2010.
4pm
“The Earth’s energy draws from the Sun.”
Daniel Nocera of MIT
Location: MIT Building E19-623 (Knight Science Journalism seminar)
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html
Tuesday November 23rd, 2010.
7.30pm
“Robots and society”
Gill Pratt
Location: Artisan’s Asylum, 13 Joy Street, Somerville MA.
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1036543329

Wednesday, November 24, 2010
1pm
“Quantum Nucleation with Emphasis on a Superheated Liquid”
Raj Kothapalli, Stanford Medical School
Location: University of Massachusetts Boston Science building, room 3-126
http://www.physics.umb.edu/seminar.htm

Friday November 26th, 2010.
1pm-4pm
MIT Museum Anniversary Chain Reaction
Rockwell Cage Gymnasium, 120 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA
$10 adults, $5 children
http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/fat2010.html