[Fwd: Invitation to Nature Network Toronto pub night and discussion panel on Science 2.0]

[Richard Weait]

If your interest in Open Source extends to Open Data and open Science,
consider attending this panel discussion on Sunday.  It is being run by
a cool person I met at OpenEverything earlier this year.  

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> Science 2.0: the future of online tools for scientists
> A pub night and panel with Timo Hannay, Cameron Neylon, and Michael  
> Nielsen, hosted by Nature Network Toronto
> 
> What does the future hold for the way we do science?  Are online  
> repositories such as GenBank and the physics preprint ArXiv, or social  
> tools such as Nature Network, about to change science profoundly?  To  
> find out, join Nature Network Toronto for an interactive panel  
> discussion over drinks at the pub.
> 
> Date: Sunday September 7 at 7:30pm
> Place: Fionn MacCool's (181 University Avenue, near corner with  
> Adelaide)
> Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=181+university+ave+toronto&sll=46.55886,-95.712891&sspn=34.760328,92.8125&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr
> 
> ********
> 
> About the panelists:
> 
> Timo Hannay is Publishing Director of Nature.com at the Nature  
> Publishing Group, publishers of Nature and over seventy other  
> scientific journals, plus numerous online resources for scientists.   
> He is responsible for new online
> initiatives in social software,  databases and audio-visual content.   
> Timo trained as a neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford and  
> worked as a journalist and a management consultant before becoming a  
> publisher.
> 
> Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist working in molecular biology,  
> biophysics, and high throughput methods.  He has a joint appointment  
> as a Lecturer in Combinatorial Chemistry at the University of  
> Southampton and as a Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the  
> ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Facility.  He is developing an electronic  
> notebook for biochemistry labs which has lead to his involvement in  
> the Open Research movement and to his group moving to an Open Notebook.
> 
> Michael Nielsen is a writer living just outside Toronto, Canada. He is  
> currently working on a book about The Future of Science.  One of the  
> pioneers of quantum computation, he coauthored the standard text on  
> quantum computation that is the most highly cited physics publication  
> of the last 25 years. He is the author of more than fifty scientific  
> papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific  
> American.
> 
> For more information visit Nature Network Toronto (http://network.nature.com/group/toronto 
> ), or contact Eva Amsen (eva.amsen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org) or Jen Dodd (jen-cvttSepc4VtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org 

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