The document discusses how scientific research and discovery has historically occurred through conversation and debate. It provides examples of early scientific journals that documented discussions and debates among researchers. It also gives examples of individual researchers, such as Garrett Lisi, who utilized blogging and social media to engage in ongoing public discussion about their work. The document raises questions about how current social technologies are facilitating scientific conversations, how these conversations may be changing the nature of science and research, and how libraries and archives can track and preserve ongoing scientific discourse.

1. Science as Conversation, Conversation as Science PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu

2. Dialogue Plato & Socrates http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Plato_Aristotle_della_Robbia_OPA_Florence.jpg

3. Early scientific literature Early science journals preserved discussions Stenographers transcribed discussion & debate

4. Research as conversation Marshall-Gies Salivary Factor debate William Gies

5. Scientific publication cycle http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg

6. Garrett Lisi http://sifter.org/~aglisi/

7. Lisi blogs http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/108

8. Lisi’s Theory of Everything http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770

9. Model of Lisi’a E8 figure

10. More about Garrett Lisi http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/a-preliminary-forensic-exploration-of-a-scientific-social-technologies-success-the-garrett-lisi-story

11. Where is the scientific conversation now?

12. Where is the scientific conversation now?

13. Science Discourse & Scientific Memory “ We have to map the archival pathways that constitute the scientific memory . Only then will we be able to develop strategies that meld with the ongoing practice of science, instead of just cleaning up its messes.” McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim. Mapping Scientific Memory: understanding the role of record-keeping in scientific practice. Archives and Manuscripts 2 4( 1 ) May 1996, < http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/gjm/mapscimem.htm>

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21. Conversation now How do: social technologies facilitate conversations? these conversations change the nature of science, research, the academy? these conversations impact on libraries & archives? we discover where the conversations are happening? we become part of the important conversations? we remember & preserve the conversation? Where are we in the conversation?