Seed Media Group: Media Center

03.03: Upcoming Talks 2010

March 24
Adam Bly is speaking at the National Academy of Sciences’ 2010 E-Journal Summit

April 12-14
Adam Bly to give a plenary talk on Open Science at the 2010 UKSG Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland

UKSG connects the information community and encourages the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication.

June 10, 2010
Adam Bly to give the keynote “Making Open Science Real” at the ICSTI 2010 Summer Conference in Helsinki

ICSTI is the International Council for Scientific and Technology Information. The theme of the two-day conference is ‘From Information to Innovation’. The conference will be hosted by VTT the Technical Research Centre of Finland, whose remit is to develop business from technology.

June 4
Joy Moore, VP Global Partnerships to participate in the panel “Social Media Analytics – Metrics do matter!” at SSP 32nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.

05.08.08: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum

Seed Founder, Editor-in-Chief, and CEO Adam Bly, Sheril Kirshenbaum of the ScienceBlog The Intersection, and Anthony Crider, co-founder of the virtual community SciLands, spoke about science and new media at the 33rd annual AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum.

Download MP3s of the talks:

Adam Bly:
—What is Seed?
—Science + Design
—Science + Policy
—Consilience: merging the arts and the sciences
—New Science Media: Phylotaxis and ScienceBlogs

Sheril Kirshenbaum:
—The Science Blogosphere

Anthony Crider:
—Science in the Virtual World

06.04.09: Royal Society Policy Lab

Seed founder and CEO Adam Bly delivered a lecture this June at the Royal Society in London titled “Our 21st Century Scientific Renaissance” to an audience of policymakers and scientists.


The lecture is part of the Policy Lab Series organized by the Royal Society’s newly formed Science Policy Centre, which has been developed as part of the Royal Society’s anniversary goals of influencing policymaking with the best scientific advice.


To listen to the entire lecture, click here: “Our 21st Century Scientific Renaissance” - Royal Society

07.10.09: National Academy of Sciences - Synthetic Biology Symposium

Under the auspices of the National Academies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Royal Society, an international symposium was organized to bring together the scientific, engineering, legal, and policy communities along with members of the public to explore the opportunities and challenges posed by the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Adam Bly, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, CEO of Seed, spoke about public engagement and participation in science on a panel with David Rejeski, Director, Foresight and Governance Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Robert Cook-Deegan, Director, IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, Duke University.


To listen to the various sessions at the Synthetic Biology Symposium, visit National Academies