AAAS conference
Feb. 16th, 2007 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danaerisI've already had some great networking conversations with people... I was chatting with the woman who runs the science stream at Carleton's journalism program, and ended up talking to someone who used to work for Astronomy as a senior editor. He said he thought I could do better (oh? where are these better jobs?), and also suggested that Astronomy's Editor in Chief, who doesn't have any kind of post-secondary degree, would feel very threatened by my degree from MIT, and that this may have had something to do with me not getting the position. Interesting...
Here's my schedule starting from here on out, for the rest of the conference. This is subject to change, of course.
TODAY
1:45-3:15 - Are we a democracy? Vote counting in the U.S.
2-4 - Eurekalert Press Reception
4-5 - Chemicals and Obesity special press briefing
5-6:30 - AAAS International Reception
6:45 - 10:30 - Science Journalism Awards Cruise and Reception
7:30 - 9 - Canadian Delegation Reception
7:45 - 10 - Math Section Meeting
8 - 10 - Annals of Improbably Research
SATURDAY
8-9 - Science Literacy: Are we getting dumber? special press briefing
10-11 - Math Anxiety special press briefing
12:30 - 2 - Workshop on how to successfully perform in job interviews
FREE TIME, probably spent going over my notes and brainstorming on who might want which stories, maybe even sending some story pitches out
3:45-5 - EU Networking Cocktail
5-6:30 - Knight Journalism Fellowship Reception
7-11 - NCSWA Party for visiting journalists (could skip this, but its good for networking)
SUNDAY
8-9 - NSF Press breakfast and presentation
8:30-10 - Either How scientists interact with the media OR The neurobiology of chocolate
10:30-12 - Prime Numbers: Emerging answers to ancient problems
11-12 - Deconstructing Van Gogh special press briefing
LUNCH
1:45-3:15 - Either Improving Media Coverage of Controversial Science OR Math and America's Future: A call to action
2:15 - ?? - Science Writers and Science Writing
3:30 - 5 - Gender Science and the Press
3:45 - 6 - NOGLSTP (queer scientists group) Reception and awards
Here's my schedule starting from here on out, for the rest of the conference. This is subject to change, of course.
TODAY
1:45-3:15 - Are we a democracy? Vote counting in the U.S.
2-4 - Eurekalert Press Reception
4-5 - Chemicals and Obesity special press briefing
5-6:30 - AAAS International Reception
6:45 - 10:30 - Science Journalism Awards Cruise and Reception
7:30 - 9 - Canadian Delegation Reception
7:45 - 10 - Math Section Meeting
8 - 10 - Annals of Improbably Research
SATURDAY
8-9 - Science Literacy: Are we getting dumber? special press briefing
10-11 - Math Anxiety special press briefing
12:30 - 2 - Workshop on how to successfully perform in job interviews
FREE TIME, probably spent going over my notes and brainstorming on who might want which stories, maybe even sending some story pitches out
3:45-5 - EU Networking Cocktail
5-6:30 - Knight Journalism Fellowship Reception
7-11 - NCSWA Party for visiting journalists (could skip this, but its good for networking)
SUNDAY
8-9 - NSF Press breakfast and presentation
8:30-10 - Either How scientists interact with the media OR The neurobiology of chocolate
10:30-12 - Prime Numbers: Emerging answers to ancient problems
11-12 - Deconstructing Van Gogh special press briefing
LUNCH
1:45-3:15 - Either Improving Media Coverage of Controversial Science OR Math and America's Future: A call to action
2:15 - ?? - Science Writers and Science Writing
3:30 - 5 - Gender Science and the Press
3:45 - 6 - NOGLSTP (queer scientists group) Reception and awards
