Scattered reflections on ScienceOnline 2010

Now that is how you do a conference. Massive thanks to Bora and Anton for organising ScienceOnline 2010, one of the most enjoyable science shindigs I’ve had the pleasure of attending. I’ll stick up more on the conference later, after I’m done recovering from the horrendous American plague that I may or may not have contracted from SciCurious. For the moment, some random musings:

Anyway, you may be able to tell that I had a great time. Meeting people I only knew from avatars or thumbnails was the best part, and in no particular order, it was a pleasure to meet Abel  Pharmboy, Carl Zimmer, Rebecca Skloot, SciCurious, Janet Stemwedel, Sheril Kirshenbaum, David Dobbs, John Timmer, Jennifer Ouellette, Tom Levenson, Ivan

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