SharpBrains

How many of the people behind the blogs you read, have you actually met in person? I hadn't met a single one before yesterday.

Last night Alvaro and I were invited by Bora at A blog around the clock for a blogger get-together at Jupiter in Berkeley . Bora who is a part of the Scienceblog umbrella had gathered an interesting group of people, mainly bloggers with diverse backgrounds such as life science, law, anthropology – you name it.

Remembering names is a huge brain exercise for me, since I tend to forget especially names I haven’t heard before. I have tried to pick up some tricks for remembering names from Merlin Mann at 43folders. Let’s see who I can remember from the event:

Bosco is a biophysicist at UCSF who writes awesome stories about Belgian fairytales, art and poetry.

Chris Hoofnagle is an attorney who writes the Denialism blog together with his MD/PhD candidate brother Mark on the intersection of science and politics.

Actually, it turned out to be several persons named Chris at the event, confusing me even more. Chris Patil writes about the biology of aging, when he’s not in San Francisco going to really good concerts.

Alex Palazzo, postdoc at Harvard Medical School is visiting California with his wife. He writes the daily transcript blog which is not just about science and RNA but also art, food, music and more.

“Thoughts from Kansas” is a blog by Joshua Rosenau who is opening people’s minds for evolution. In his blog he says: “In Kansas biology is political science”.

Curtis Pickering from UCSF has made a social networking site for scientists called JeffsBench together with his colleague Geoff (not Jeff).

Thanks for a nice gathering, Bora!

Update: some more pics at San Bora's and comments at Alex Palazzo's.