New Online: Evolution, Biodiversity, Politics, and Framing Science
It's a been a busy last few weeks! AIBS staff are heading to Albuquerque NM for the annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) and the AIBS / BSCS / NESCent symposium on "Macroevolution: Evolution Above the Species Level" on 14 October.
The book from our 2004 symposium at the NABT meetings is available free online via the AIBS Bookstore and direct from the publisher, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. The 2004 symposium was on the theme of "Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation."
Videos, slides, and transcripts of the lectures at the 2006 AIBS Annual meeting last May ("Biodiversity: the Interplay of Science, Valuation, and Policy") are online for free viewing via the AIBS Virtual Library (we've been recording the talks at our annual meetings since 2000), as are the talks from the AIBS awards evening and Council meeting held that same month. One of the talks, by Chris Mooney, is also online on YouTube. The title of Chris's talk is "Learning to Speak Science: How the Scientific Community can Learn to Win back its Political Influence in America." The copy of his talk in the AIBS Virtual Library is followed by an excellent talk by Matthew Nisbet on "Framing Science: Understanding the Battle Over Knowledge."
And the registration site for the 2007 AIBS annual meeting next May is online . The theme is "Evolutionary Biology and Human Health."
Comments
Posting the video of Chris Mooney's talk on youtube is a valuable service and a great example of what more we scientists can do with the new tools out there.
Interestingly, when I bring up the url, there is a long list of ID-evolution videos listed along the side that I wasn't aware were available.
I shared the url with the Kansas Citizens for Science forum and have gotten good responses.
Kudos to AIBS for taking this step.
Posted by: Lee Allison | October 6, 2006 5:54 PM