After much plan­ning and coor­di­nat­ing, our munif­i­cent over­lords at Seed arranged to bring a sub­stan­tial frac­tion of the gang here at Sci­ence­blogs togeth­er in New York last week­end. Beyond the drink­ing, the carous­ing, and the karaoke, it was a great chance to see the oth­er Sci­b­lings and talk sci­ence, blog­ging, and to trash the Sci­b­lings who did­n’t show up.

I’ll have pic­tures online in a few days, but for now, Bora has some pho­to­graph­ic evi­dence that I mod­er­at­ed a dis­cus­sion about sci­ence and pol­i­tics. Rob Knop and PZ Myers sat at a table and got along mar­velous­ly. The word “fram­ing” even came up, yet we all made it out alive. The dis­cus­sion was filmed, and excerpts will be post­ed some­where around here over the next few months.

In the course of the week­end I also met the gangs from (in no par­tic­u­lar order) Liv­ing the Life Sci­en­tif­ic, Neu­ron­tic, The Inter­sec­tion (both Chris and Sher­il), Shift­ing Base­lines, Page 3.14 (Kather­ine and Gin­ny), Cog­ni­tive Dai­ly (both Mungers), Adven­tures in Ethics and Sci­ence, The Ques­tion­able Author­i­ty, High­ly Allochtho­nous (which name I pro­nounced cor­rect­ly, unlike oth­ers), Evo­lu­tion­blog, Neu­ro­topia, Aeti­ol­o­gy, Uncer­tain Prin­ci­ples, Island of Doubt, The Loom, Denial­ism, Good Math/Bad Math, Neu­rophi­los­o­phy, Pure Pedantry, Chaot­ic Utopia, Kevin Beck of Doc Bush­well’s Chim­panzee Refuge, Respect­ful Inso­lence, Gene Expres­sion, Omni­Brain, Thus Spoke Zus­ka, Evol­gen and Ret­ro­spec­ta­cle.

Some­how Man­hat­tan and our liv­ers all sur­vived the weekend.