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July 22nd, 2008 by in Uncategorized

Not to be outdone by the exciting July 29th DC medblogger conference, or Medgadget’s new Medpolitics site, Scienceblogs (the sister site of Seed Magazine) is sponsoring a meet-and-greet on August 9th in New York City. If you’d like to attend – and meet some of your favorite science bloggers in person – please send an email to: nycmeetup@scienceblogs.com

Beer and swag, science and reason, talented writers, and my favorite city… All just one Chinatown bus ride away.

Hope to see you there!

This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.

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