The OpenHelix Blog

A discussion well worth having. Dorothea Salo at “The Book of Trogool’s” recent post on Science Online 2010 (which one of us attended) mentions an interesting exchange she (a librarian) had: Interlocutor: “So what do you do? Me: “I’m a librarian.” Interlocutor: *lengthy pause* So… what are you doing here exactly? Er, what? A conference [...]

I attended my first ever “unconference” last weekend. And I’ll have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, learned a lot and have come away feeling that there definitely is a strong and important place for such conferences in science. I’d like to give you a quick update on what the STELLA conference was and some [...]