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• Matt Brown

  05 June 2008 | 13:15

  Well I’ll start. I’m Matt. Sometimes I’m known as M@, just because I like wordplay. I’m one of the editors of Nature Network. It’s my first time at SciFoo and, indeed, in California so I’m looking forward to this immensely. I’m professionally interested in the interplay of science and web2.0 and non-professionally interested in whisky.

• Timo Hannay

  10 June 2008 | 14:39

  I’m Timo and this will be my third SciFoo, but only because I’m one of the organisers. Otherwise I would never have got invited.

  There’s already a fair amount of discussion over on the SciFoo ’08 wiki (password required) but if people have any questions, requests or suggestions then feel free to post them here and I’ll do my best to respond.

  BTW, we’re very keen to promote demos this year, so those of you who are attending, please think about what you can bring along to show others. We’re happy to help with logistics if required.

• Bora Zivkovic

  12 June 2008 | 18:49

  Perhaps my invite is long gone from my spam folder, but I am envious of those invited as this is the best meeting in the world (and I say that as an organizer of something similar). Have fun and blog a lot so we can vicariously participate through your writings, pictures, podcasts and videos.

• Antony Williams

  21 July 2008 | 16:02

  I’m Tony Williams, now better known as ChemSpiderman. I work with a team of friends to provide ChemSpider to the community. I’m a spectroscopist by training then migrated into the commercial scientific software for over a decade and am now working hard to “Build a Community for Chemists” using ChemSpider. I am passionate about Open notebook Science, quality in the domain of chemistry information available online and providing a platform for chemists to seek and manage information. I also work with the Wikipedia Chemistry team.

• Joerg Heber

  29 July 2008 | 15:35

  Well, I am pretty lucky to be able to attend scifoo this year. A physicist by training, I am one of the Senior Editors at Nature Materials. There I have done a range of different focus issues, from science eduction in Africa, scientific research in China, and nuclear energy to more scientific topics. Scifoo really should broaden my perspective a lot further, although I hope I can contribute a bit as well. Topics related to buzz words like ‘materials for energy’ and the consequences of rising energy prices might be something of interest. Either way, it should be really cool to talk to all these superbrains at scifoo!

• Simon Field

  11 August 2008 | 21:59

  I’m Simon Quellen Field, the fellow handing out
  Kryptonite and demonstrating science toys at the
  conference.

  I’ve posted some photos if you’d
  like to view them.

• Simon Field

  11 August 2008 | 22:05

  People have been asking for the video of the baby goat learning about the Barkhausen Effect, so here it is: Barkhausen Goat

• Matt Brown

  12 August 2008 | 09:37

  Simon – when I got home, I found a note inside my suitcase telling me that airport security had opened it up. I wonder if they’d seen your kryptonite on the x-ray scan? Any idea how it would look under x-ray?

  (That said, it’s more probably that the water canisters and wiring from my computer looked like an explosive device.)

• Simon Field

  13 August 2008 | 17:44

  I would imagine the glass vial and the rocks inside would both be about the same transparency.

  In other words, it would be pretty boring under x-rays. On the other hand, once they opened the luggage, it might be glowing pretty well. I suspect, though, that the brightness of the x-rays is much less than normal sunlight, and they may have looked like little yellow rocks in a glass vial.

• Brian Malow

  15 August 2008 | 07:31

  Simon, I still think it’s only proper to ask someone where they are from before handing them a vial of Kryptonite!

  Even if, as you said, I don’t have a Kryptonian accent.

  Perhaps I was born on Krypton and raised on Earth. It has been known to happen.

  Still glowing,
  Brian

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