Phoning it in on a conference call
In research, budgets are being squeezed everywhere. We are all suffering cutbacks in vital areas such as capital equipment spending,
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How to introduce yourself as an unemployed researcher
I have at various times of my career been unemployed for short periods. As I mentioned in previous posts, this
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Diary of a conference attendee – day three, taking a break
Yesterday I decided to bail on the 19:00 till 20:00 talk. Turns out trying to do a 12hr stint at a
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Diary of a conference attendee – day two, badges and a badger
Last night I learnt two things. That firstly in Vienna I can get amazing tacos and secondly Austrian Netflix has a
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Diary of a conference attendee – day one, coffee and impostor syndrome
Hotel beds are a special kind of bed that are strangely comfortable when you first lie on them but progressively
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Conferencing for dummies
The title of this post might sound harsh, but it’s exactly how I felt the first time I was at a scientific conference. I hadn’t prepared very well for attending this conference, because I was focused on presenting at this conference.
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The story of anxiously having anxiety at conferences
In the not too distant past, I hated conferences. To me they were awkward and would entail me feeling anxious
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A new year checklist for every academic
A check list of things that every academic will be doing as they start the new year
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Stuff wat I lurn at conferences
As I covered a couple of weeks ago i recently attended a very different seminar/conference/symposium which was objectively awesome. The morning
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An academic poster in a cartoon style
This week I am attending the conference Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS) in Brazil. At the conference I am presenting a poster on some work I did earlier this year. I’ve done posters before but this time I decided to go a bit more infographic/cartoony with it.
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