Genomics Forum discussion on Science and Sci-fi - this Weds, slightly overlapping Techmeetup

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This is cutting it close for the Wednesday Techmeetup, but I'm gonna make a dash from one two the other (gonna be less fun now my bike is the b0rken) and I thought some peeps on this list may be interested. It's free but ticketed. I've no idea what kind of limit they have on attendees and if it's been reached yet but I've just fired off an e-mail in hope.

Drinks from 5.30pm in the ESRC Genomics Forum will be followed by a discussion, led by host Ken MacLeod and his guests - Andrew J. Wilson (Writer's Bloc), Professor Steve Yearley (ESRC Genomics Forum), Dr Emma Frow (ESRC Genomics Forum), Dr Chris French (University of Edinburgh) - exploring how science fiction has portrayed scientific work. 

The reckless ‘mad scientist’ like Frankenstein or Dr Moreau seldom appears in modern science fiction - some of whose writers are scientists themselves. But do any of these fictional portrayals match what social scientists have found when observing scientists in their natural habitat? And how do scientists feel about sociologists watching them, and about SF writers imagining them?

http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/events/title,22169,en.html

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