Scientific societiesJoin!Academia dei Lincei•Founded 1603 in Rome •Grew from Academia Secretorum Naturae (founded 1560 in Naples) •Gesta Lynceorum (1609), arguably the first scientific publicationThe invisible college•Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, John Wilkins and others, c. 1646 •Predecessor of the Royal Society of LondonScientific societies•Hold meetings of members who share common scientific interests •Publish scientific journals to distribute original findings to members and to a broader audience •Provide an “official” version of record that reviewers have checked for methodology and potential reproducibility •Provide opportunities for professional developmentExpanded scope•Meetings •Publications •Public awareness (education and outreach) •Stewardship (science policy and scientifically based policy)Committees•Board •Meetings •Nominations Comm. •Journals •Publ. Comm. •Open-Access Comm.•Educ. & Human Res. •Publ. Policy •Prof. Ethics •Finance •AwardsJoin one or more•Consider size •How soon can you get involved? •How much influence will you have when you do? •Consider your career goalsConsider joiningAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science American Fisheries Society AGU Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Ecological Society of America European Geosciences Union International Phycological Society Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Phycological Society of America Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology The Oceanography SocietyRelated issues•For-profit presses •Open-access journals (for profit or not, society supported or not) •Neither will help you much with your continuing development.More