SpotOn conference - 14 & 15th Nov 2014

[Catherine Chimes]

Dear all,

Just wanted to flag that SpotOn London 2014 is taking place next week, on the 14th & 15th November at The Wellcome Trust. 

For those that don't know, SpotOn London is an annual conference for anyone interested in how science is communicated and carried out online, hosted by Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Digital Science and the Wellcome Trust. The two days are a dynamic, lively melting pot of scientists, science communicators, technologists, and those interested in science policy.

This year’s theme will be on the challenges of balancing the public and the private in the digital age. Friday will see panels, workshops and keynotes on topics including: sharing sensitive data, measuring social impact, open peer review and the right to be forgotten.

In an exciting change to the Saturday programme, SpotOn London will be hosting an "unconference" completely picked and run by the community within this year’s theme.

The programme is available here: http://www.nature.com/spoton/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SpotOn-London-2014-Final-Prog3.pdf

And slightly last minute, but tickets are still available here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spoton-london-2014-tickets-8607749009

The conference team are also running two exciting fringe events with Pint Of Science and Science Showoff, which you can read about here: http://www.nature.com/spoton/2014/10/spoton-london-2014-fringe-events/

Website: www.nature.com/spoton/ and you can follow us on Twitter at @SpotOnLondon