Science in the Social World

As I stated two days ago, The Genetics Society of America encouraged people in attendance at the 2012 Drosophila Research Conference to live tweet using the twitter hash tag #Dros2012. A few others and I have enjoyed this, and are using it has a way to connect and converse, even though we have yet to meet in person. Of course, I've used it mostly to make jokes about gene names and the over abundance of fly testis talks--you should expect no less from me.

The people who have been tweeting seem to also be bloggers as well and you should take the time to check out their sights, which all seem to be good, and likely more informative than ours. @amasianV blog can be found here and @jelena_Aleksic blog is here.(***update I should mention The Node and Eastern Blot as well)

Connections made over the social media are increasingly what the entire world is coming to, and there is no reason for science not to jump on that bandwagon--especially considering how socially awkward some of us are.

I commend the GSA for setting this up, and pushing people to use this. Well, enough blogging, Chitown awaits.