Conference Tips: The Poster Edition

Sci did a post last year on posters at SFN, the difference between a good poster, a better poster, and the best posters (I’m talking with regards to styling, not content, if you’ve got crappy content, Sci simply cannot help you). And this year, fresh back from a really awesome conference, she wants to do […]

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Friday Weird Science Refrigerator Kids: Redux

Sci received a charming email from reader Monica the other day! Monica was able to get the paper Sci recently blogged on about kids trapped in fridges. But she couldn’t find a pdf copy of the paper for all the interesting pics. And now she has it! And for your enlightenment, here are the pictures […]

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Bring on the Data Blitz!

At some of the smaller conferences that Sci has been to (which are, by the way, often the best ones) there is a new and improved thing called “the data blitz”. Usually, this is where everyone gets one slide to present their poster/talk and to get people interested in it. Usual time is 1 min. […]

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And Now for Something Cmpletely Different

Encephalon is up at Neuronarrative. Sadly, Sci was too lazy/busy/crazy/dumb to submit one of our posts, but there’s plenty there to see! Especially a post from the Neurocritic on the clitoral homunculous!!! I really wish I had seen that one first… Also, the carnival is Monty Python themed. I mean, how great is THAT?!?! And […]

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Poem of the Day: #9

There was a grad student of yore who had neither office nor door at his desk in the lab, students gathered to gab until he could stand it no more. All this chatting he could not abide for his writing he wished he could hide so when no one would leave he rolled up his […]

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And Now, a Powerpoint Presentation, Redux

Sci was at a conference last week. It was a REALLY good time. As Sci advances in grad school, I feel I am beginning to come into my own, and it’s a good feeling, esp when you can walk around feeling like you have a posse of fellow grad students and post-docs who all want […]

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