Can you believe it! The +Science on Google+ community is approaching 200k members! We’ll have reached that number by this weekend, so we’re going to have a huge community celebration!
Join your hosts +Scott Lewis and +Buddhini Samarasinghe as they start the celebration of being the #1 science community and the #10 community in all of Google+!!
During our Hangout On Air, you’ll get a chance to meet the moderators who dedicate so much time and energy into making sure that good, high quality science content is showcased in the community.
After we hear from the moderators on who they are, we’ll have a discussion on what the curator team looks at for community posts to get put on the Curator’s Choice.
We are all extremely excited to be celebrating with all 200,000 of you! Let’s stay curious and find new and better ways to understand this amazing Universe we all live in!
#ScienceSunday #STEM #ScienceEveryday #SoGp200k
Science on Google+ 
As you can probably tell, we’ll be using the Q&A app for this awesome hangout. I’ll be checking on them periodically before the show and hopefully have time to answer them on air. If not, we’ll have follow-up hangouts to discuss any questions you all have.
Thanks for being so awesome, everyone!
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Yay! Congrats Scott Lewis , Buddhini Samarasinghe & Science on Google+ ! 🙂
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Woah congrats! That’s great for science, researchers and citizen scientists! I am proud to be involved in Science on Google+
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CC: Gayle Lord Chris Dangerfield
reasons why Google Plus is Plus
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Congratulations!
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Yayyyyyyyyy science FTW
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Congratulations!
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Wow! Congratulations everyone
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Congratulations, everyone, for being so numerous.
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I love my fellow scientists!
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It says at 4:00PM Sunday. I am in Eastern-USA, but not assuming it’s 4pm Eastern. What timezone is that in, please?
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Jo Dunaway I’m in Pacific and it says 1:00, so it must be accurate for your timezone.
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Jo Dunaway The hangout calendar knows about time zones.
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Congratulations, that’s a lot of members.
What is the link for the community though? I don’t see it, and I’d like to join.
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Cool! Gratz everyone! Can’t wait!
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Here’s the link, Fidem Turbāre
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101996609942925099701
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Chris Robinson Thank you. (I just joined.)
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Chris Robinson will a frank discussion of the constraints in http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0524 (supposedly ruling out 1% of black holes being intermediate mass 100,000 stellar mass black holes, explaining all dark matter) be on topic in light of http://thestarshipman.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/long-pbh-jbis.pdf by the editor of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society if I promise not to bet anyone anything about it?
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James Salsman I bet you will break that promise
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Hi James Salsman. Sure, post it to the community.
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We’re getting set up right now. See you all in about 30 minutes!
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Jesus, I wasn’t even following 😦
That’s been remedied.
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Rajini is a big Pink Floyd fan.
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This is a great post from Michael Habib about bird migration patterns and we’re discussing it in the hangout right now – https://plus.google.com/105917944266111687812/posts/UK8vYUr4acV
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Now we’re talking about this post from Samantha Andrews about the significance of color patterns in fish – https://plus.google.com/108991861637776012701/posts/jXcW36BUHbz
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Don’t forget many publications that use NIH funds have to be made available, often via Pubmed Central.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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Here is a great example of a Science Bytes post from Shephine Shaji about static electricity – https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ShephineShaji/posts/gKvVAHvyAVH
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Thanks for watching everyone! That was a lot of fun to do!
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Thanks for all the advice on comments. It might just encourage me to start posting them in communities again, with your guidelines.
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Gah, it’s sleeping time, would love to have watched!
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Loved it!! And thank you so much again for building this platform for communicating science to enthusiasts and the public. Glad to be a part of the science community of G+.
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Thanks for all the comments, folks! As promised during the hangout, here is the post on open access resources:
https://plus.google.com/112357123471585329329/posts/et98inu9Bzh
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Finally got to see this – fantastic #HOA guys! Great discussion about open access, science communication and engagement. And of course fantastic to see you all too
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Sweet!
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