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okay so hi everyone we're here to talk

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to you about signet first k we get a

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quick show of hands who has heard of

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signet before okay so not all of you

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about half alright so signet is an

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online platform that was created about

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three years ago for by astrologist and

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forest to biologists many of the members

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or early career people like us and you

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and it's it's a great place to interact

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so we're going to give you a quick tour

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of the features it's something between

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Facebook for astrobiologists and like a

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giant Google Doc platform where you can

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collaborate but it has much more so

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let's dive into this yeah so um on

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second net we have your own profile just

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like on facebook and other social

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networks and so you can post a lot of

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information things you're interested in

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but we also have a lot of groups various

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groups that do different things together

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we have groups for astrobiology in

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Australia or astrobiology in India we

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also have a book club will very soon be

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reading carl sagan's pale blue dot

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together and those of us who are in the

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book club will lead conversations then

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online about the book as we read it

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there's also a journal club that marks

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been really involved we'll talk about

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here shortly if any of you are

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interested in seguin net you can create

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your own clubs your own groups inside

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the network and then you can work

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together and astrobiology to talk about

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some of these interesting things any of

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okay so just to pitch it on the journal

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club so we have a reading group I razon

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estate and I guess it's open to everyone

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on sega net so you can join in you can

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actually suggest readings if you get to

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have a topic you're interested in or

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you'd like to learn more about you can

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definitely make suggestions and we take

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them and everyone can participate it's

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really cool especially if you're at a

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place that doesn't have that big of an

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astrobiology group you can join a bigger

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community and we also broadcasts

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seminars weekly seminars from Arizona

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State maybe soon from

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cu-boulder so that's how you can you can

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chain one of my favorite features on

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sega net is the mentoring platform so

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it's been growing and we're going to do

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a lot of new things in the upcoming

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years with it but so far we've had both

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in person and online mentoring

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capabilities so we heard a little bit

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about yesterday at the workshop about

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you know the motivations for why we all

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should be mentoring and and I think it's

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true as astrobiologists we have arguably

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one of the easiest sciences to you know

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inspire the public with especially kids

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so we've done everything from for

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example skype video mentoring with a

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high school group out in California

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helping them do like an online

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competition a communication competition

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for their classroom and I was also

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involved with some local mentoring with

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an elementary schooler in Tempe and she

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had to do basically a science fair

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project for her class and she was

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interested in volcanoes and I said well

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I don't know much about volcanoes but I

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can help you with Mars and we kind of

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put that together and did this cute

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little experiment where we used ash from

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her fireplace as an analog volcano

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sediment and yeast as our analog Mars

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life form and we did some cute little

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growth experiments with that and so she

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had a blast and yeah so and then there's

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also oh I should talk about tweeting

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right there's that sort of it there's a

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small group of tweeters through saving

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that so we tweet everything from you

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know news to internship opportunities to

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job opportunities that you know science

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education stuff so it's a good place to

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cool and those are just some quick

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numbers to finish it so the network is

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now three years old it's got over 1,300

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members from seven continents there are

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even people computing from Antarctica

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which is pretty cool 60 groups or more

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of interests the grahams been talking

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about so almost twenty mentors now

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so it's pretty active so join in pitch

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in and make the most out of it you can

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also you know create your group if you

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have things you'd like to do in in

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common and keeping the brake on spirit

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going throughout the year suggest your

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own features it's very open and so you

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know on the first slide if you can go

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back to the first like Graham yeah so of

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course it comes from seguin and the

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acronym is social action for grassroots

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astrobiology network so the grassroots

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part is really that you can make it your

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own and suggest your own thing so these

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are a handful of the features we're