Bora Zivkovic, Scientific American blogs editor, will present “How the Web is Changing the Way Science Is Communicated, Taught and Done” at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Bioinformatics Building, Room 105.

Zivkovic, a scientist, popular blogger and founder of the successful annual ScienceOnline conference, is a prominent voice in science and research blogging, Twitter and virtually everywhere on the Web where science and scientists are thriving.

A long-time spokesperson for science on  a wide variety of social media networks  including Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia,  Google+, Zivkovic founded the ScienceOnline “unconference” in 2007 as a way for the Internet diaspora of  science-interested students, educators, scientists, physicians, journalists, librarians, bloggers, artists and programmers to meet, share, learn and collaborate. ScienceOnline 2012 took place at N.C. State University and had some 450 participants from across the United States and around the world

Born in Serbia, Zivkovic came to the United States in 1991. He received a master’s degree in zoology from N.C. State.  He has taught biology there and at North Carolina Wesleyan College.