{"id":9009,"date":"2014-01-30T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:45:30","slug":"appearances-and-so-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/30\/appearances-and-so-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearances and So Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since somebody asks nearly every time I mention my TED@NYC appearance back in October, I can now confirm that I will not be speaking at TED this year. Which I found out the same way as everybody else: when the full speaker list for this year’s TED<\/a> was released today. If you’re curious about the outcome of the “talent search” I was part of, the only name I recognized from that event was Zak Ebrahim<\/a>, who was awesome in New York.<\/p>\n

Having said what I won’t<\/em> be doing, let me mention a couple of things I will be doing later this year:<\/p>\n

— Kate and I are going to Loncon 3<\/a>, the World Science Fiction Convention in London in mid-August. I filled out a program(me) questionnaire, but it’s way to early to know what, if anything, I’ll be doing there. If nothing else, I’ll be hanging out enjoying nerdery.<\/p>\n

— I just accepted an invitation to speak at a workshop for science writers in Stockholm not long after the UK trip. Which sounds like it will be a lot of fun– I’m looking forward to it. this is close enough to the end of the Worldcon-plus-tourism trip Kate and I are doing that I’m looking at just staying in the UK for a couple of extra days, rather than flying back and forth across the Atlantic twice in the space of a week. If you’re a person in the UK who books science-y speakers and would like a talk about modern physics for dogs in late August, shoot me an email. I’ll work cheap that week…<\/p>\n

— I’ll be at DAMOP in Madison, WI<\/a> in early June. I don’t have any plans to present anything (though it belatedly occurs to me that I probably could’ve had a student or two put together a poster. Maybe as a post-deadline thing…), but it’s a great meeting, and I wouldn’t want to miss it.<\/p>\n

— I have a proposal in with some people who have money to maybe do a very cool thing in late July-ish, but that’s not by any means a sure thing, so I’m not going to say what it is. And while I’m being a big mean tease, I’ll also mention that there’s a very cool book thing in the works, but I can’t talk about that, either.<\/p>\n

I will also throw in the obligatory mention that while I’m not really busting my ass to generate new speaking opportunities, as a general matter, I’m happy to go places and give talks. If you’re in the market for a speaker, particularly if you’re an academic institution in the northeast US, send me email, and we can almost certainly work something out.<\/p>\n

I’m expecting editorial comments on the book-in-progress Real Soon, so blogging will be light as I try to do as much as I can to clear the metaphorical decks for re-writes. And then re-writing stuff– which, in the immortal words of Mr. Earbrass<\/a> is “worse than merely writing, because not only does he have to think up new things just the same, but try not to remember the old ones.”<\/p>\n

And that’s what I’m up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since somebody asks nearly every time I mention my TED@NYC appearance back in October, I can now confirm that I will not be speaking at TED this year. Which I found out the same way as everybody else: when the full speaker list for this year’s TED was released today. If you’re curious about the… Continue reading Appearances and So Forth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}