Learning from four years of Science Online unConference  

Bora Zivkovic, more than anything else in the world, loves to write about himself in Third Person Singular. Bora Zivkovic, better known online as 'Coturnix', writes on "A Blog Around The Clock" which is a fusion of his three old blogs: Science And Politics (a mix of science, politics, personal, blogging-about-blogging and miscellaneous stuff), Circadiana (chronobiology and medicine of sleep), and The Magic School Bus (academia and science education). Bora was born in Belgrade, in (what used to be) Yugoslavia (now Serbia), where he trained horses, got his black belt in karate, and studied veterinary medicine. In 1991, just one week before the (first of many) wars broke out in the region, Bora emigrated to the USA. He got a MS degree in the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University studying the physiology of circadian and photoperiodic timing in Japanese quail ( Coturnix japonica, hence the online handle), while taking a number of graduate classes in history and philosophy of biology as well. In the same year - 1998. - he became a US citizen. Since arriving in the USA, Bora has been living somewhere in North Carolina, first in Hendersonville for a couple of months, then in Raleigh for 11 years, then in Cary for 9 months, and finally in Chapel Hill for the past six years. He has met Catharine, his wife-to-be and an NC native, on his first day in Raleigh. They have two children: son David (16) and daughter Ruth (13). They also have two dogs and a cat. Bora teaches introductory biology to adults at a North Carolina Wesleyan College, while his wife, after almost getting a degree in philosophy, decided to become an ICU nurse instead. They are avid readers and book collectors. Bora's homepage is here. He can also be found on Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Nature Network, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Imeem and Dopplr. Feel freed to subscribe/follow/friend him on those services. Bora got his job in the comment thread of one of his posts on this blog in the spring of 2007. He is now the Online Community Manager at Public Lubrary of Science, focusing mainly on PLoS ONE. Bora has organized four globally renowned ScienceOnline conferences. Bora is the series editor of The Open Laboratory - a series of annual anthologies of best writing from science, nature and medical blogs. You can see (and buy) the first three anthologies (and the fourth one is in preparation) from Lulu.com: 2006, 2007 and 2008 Bora is also serving as an external advisor to the World Science radio+Web science program, is a member of BlogTogether and sometimes helps with the ScienceInTheTriangle and Research Triangle Park. After all of the above, Bora Zivkovic still thinks that writing about himself in Third Person Singular is kinda fun. This event is a part of the ongoing Math 2.0 interest group conversation series. Always-discussed topics:

• principles of Math 2.0 teaching and learning
• networks and communities creating social math objects
• platforms for remote communication of this interest group
• our projects and collaboration
• publishing efforts and bibliography