So I know it may come as a surprise to all of you, but Sci is not the ONLY person covering this meeting. Though I know I could cover all 15 kabillion presentations and posters my ownself (Sci is VERY fast when on a lot of caffeine), I figure it’s best if there are other […]
So yay, Sci’s one of the SFN Neurobloggers!!! And this means she will be blogging, every day, about the cool and possibly weird stuff that she sees at the meeting (I hope there will be weird stuff…). Exciting, right? Of course right! Well, Sci will be making up her meeting planner in the next few […]
(This post brought to you by copious amounts of migraine medication and caffeine. I can see through time…) This post is ALSO inspired by a post over at the charming and witty Scribbler50’s Behind the Stick. He recently got an awesome writeup and is TOTALLY famous. He deserves every inch of it. Fantastic writer. Ah, […]
Sad news: Ruth Kirschstein, a trusted advisor and long-time administrator at the National Institutes of Health who helped develop and refine safety tests of viral vaccines for diseases such as rubella, measles, and polio, died last night (Oct. 6) after “battling a long illness,” according to the NIH. In 1974, Kirschstein was the first woman […]
W00t! Sci got picked to be one of the OFFICIAL SFN Neurobloggers. Unfortunately, being all secretive as she is, she won’t be wearing a pretty ribbon or anything. But you should be able to find her by her large smile and her excellent coverage of science. That would totally stand out, right? So anyway: As […]
w00t!!! Sci’s going. She’s pretty excited. Especially about the whole “drinking in Chicago” thing. Anyways. If there’s drinking, and Drugmonkey is there, Sci might be there as well (she’s unsure as to possible times, and leaves that up to people who are more important than she to decide). So we can hang out. Also, if […]
This entry inspired by Sci’s running partner. I can definitely say I have been very lucky in my running partner, in that she is also a scientist and also pretty awesome. Talking about science and being awesome can really eat up a long run. And this past weekend, we ran one heck of a 30K, […]
So a few days ago, Brian of Laelaps and I had a conversation. The conversation went like this: Sci: Somebody wrote a book where he referred to the “tone” of scienceblogs.com as being bad for science. The book is “Don’t be SUCH a scientist”. Because we are “such scientists”, as in, people who are obsessed […]
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 […]
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. […]