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DESCRIPTION:What is it like to work in a lab? What’s the latest science n
 ews? How can you tell good science from quackery? The answers to all these 
 questions can be found in blogs\, and in this event you’ll meet the peopl
 e who are writing them. 
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\nThere are literally tens of millions of blogs
  online. Some read like personal diaries\, while others are built round new
 s or analysis\, like reading a column in a newspaper. With so many blogs ou
 t there\, it’s no surprise that science is well-covered from lots of diff
 erent angles. Ben Goldacre goes on the hunt for outrageous claims\, dubious
  statistics and credulous science reporting in Bad Science\, an extension o
 f his popular column in the Guardian. Jennifer Rohn reveals the culture and
  everyday life of a jobbing scientist in her blog on Nature Network London\
 , Mind the Gap. In Ed Yong’s blog\, Not Exactly Rocket Science\, he conve
 rts plodding\, jargon-heavy journal papers into nimble\, accessible and ent
 ertaining blog posts on the freshest new research.
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\nJoin us as our blog
 gers talk about why they write\, what makes a good post\, and what blogging
  can do for science. You’ll come out of it with three personal views of s
 cience and some good new reads\, and best of all\, the event is free! 
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\n*Ben Goldacre* is an award winning writer\, b
 roadcaster\, and medical doctor who has written the weekly 'Bad Science' co
 lumn in the Guardian since 2003. He appears regularly on Radio 4 and TV\, a
 nd in addition to the Guardian\, he has written for Time Out\, New Statesma
 n and the British Medical Journal\, winning him numerous awards. His book\,
  Bad Science\, is due to be published in February 2008.
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\n*Ed Yong* live
 s in London with his wife and works as an Information Manager at Cancer Res
 earch UK. After leaving university with degree in hand\, he made an abortiv
 e foray into scientific research before realising that he much prefers to t
 alk about science than to actually do it. Ed now writes between 2-3 new art
 icles a week for his blog\, sticking to his original mission statement of e
 xplaining science in an engaging and understandable way\, and only ever wri
 ting from original research papers. Ed nabbed 3 consecutive runner-up prize
 s in the Daily Telegraph’s Science Writer Awards from 2004-2006\, before 
 finally winning the competition in 2007. He has written freelance pieces fo
 r Nature Network\, the Economist and the Daily Telegraph.
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\n*Jennifer Ro
 hn* is a post-doctoral cell biologist at University College London\, having
  just returned to science after a four-year sabbatical as a journal editor.
  In her spare time\, she is also a freelance science writer\, editor and jo
 urnalist\; novelist\; biotechnology consultant and the founder and editor o
 f LabLit.com magazine.
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SUMMARY:Blogging science
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