The Association for Psychological Science (APS) had its 25th birthday in Washington, DC this weekend. And to celebrate they pulled out all the stops including a flash mob, a fancy hotel across from the zoo, a concert, a huge line up of top notch invited speakers, and APS branded merchandise.
APS also was the first conference this author has ever visited that successfully and widely got attendees to use twitter. This allowed both science and general advice on research to go public immediately. At Indecision Blog, we love how the internet opens up scientific communication, so we were excited by how Internet-heavy APS was this year.
Below we have aggregated the top moments, pieces of advice, and general tweets from #APS2013DC. We recommend you go through the #APS2013DC on twitter itself but given the number of tweets we warn you that is quite an undertaking. So start off with our summary below.
Advice and Thoughts on Research Process
https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338295229620834306
https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338281255214936067
Funny and Witty Tweets
https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338442968874770432
https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338036756748316672
The Actual Science
The APS website did a fantastic job of summarizing many talks, moments, and even posting videos on their Daily Observation blog. Check out all the entries between May 23rd and May 26th. You can even watch the entire Molecules and Mind address.
Also make sure to just search #APS2013DC for the top tweets about the science.
Here are a few of our random favorites.
https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/337998372889849856
Contribute
Did you hear a piece of advice at APS we missed? Was there a great talk people should make sure to check out either via the Daily Observation blog or a paper? Was there a new interesting perspective you gained from the conference? Do you want to share your poster or slides to promote your research? Tell us in the comments and be sure to include any applicable links.
Also amen to this tweet praising APS’s biggest live tweeter:
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