The FORCE16 ’Communicating Science Effectively’ panel, will take place on Monday, April 18th at 11:00 am. It will bring together Steven Pinker from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, Cesar Hidalgo, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and Christie Nicholson from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science – to answer our questions

In the age of memes, GIFs and the internet of things, knowledge sharing has drastically changed. The second we throw content into the web, we bare our souls before multitudes of strangers and hope for the best. Will they read it? Will they care? A like. A retweet! Fantastic. They're engaging, and it feels good! But suddenly…silence.

As the chair of rapidly approaching Force16, it is time to reflect, examine the tea leaves and ponder the future. Further, the recent NEJM editorial made me MAD.  A little about my FORCE11 history. Last fall I was voted onto the FORCE11 executive board, which recently held a retreat for the passing of the torch

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and FORCE11 have partnered on supporting Cross-Pollinator travel awards with the goal of bringing scholars, scientists, software engineers, librarians, and humanities scholars from Force11 to DLF and vice versa to provide their unique perspectives in scholarly communication. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a “robust and diverse community of practitioners

Last July, I attended the very rewarding Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Open Science and e-Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.  I had always regretted missing the workshop that led to the founding of FORCE11 and so was thrilled to finally make it there four years later.  So much has happened since then that it’s