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I will be at a conference all day tomorrow, I'm chairing one of the sessions and will be too tired to write, sorry for any inconvenience to my readers.
Bike is unlikely tomorrow
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Not good enough
we demand blood!
Oh hang on, wrong thread, have a good day at your conference, i'm guessing its something to do with critters.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
ouch :(
I understand you have commitments. No worries. We will get our Bike time sometime then :) Just stay safe.
Sephrena
We Can Wait
Of course we'll be drumming our fingers with impatience. Enjoy your conference.
The conference was very good.
It was on semi-aquatic mammals, so things like otters and watershrews, watervoles and American mink. It was informative and we learned that ordinary shrews will dive after prey as well as watershrews, we learned that watervoles will occupy saltwater marshes and that one of the ways they bait traps for mink, is dissecting out the anal glands from dead ones, apparently, it's a job for people with little sense of smell.
It was a chance to renew acquaintances and to network and Exeter University was a delightful venue, so a good time was had by all 90 attendees and many more online. It always makes me want to get involved in research, but then I remember it often involves lots of walking, getting cold and wet and disappointed when nature doesn't do what you predicted. Oh to be young again when it doesn't matter because your strength will carry you through.
Angharad
O ye of little smell
Sounds like an interesting conference.
Good to hear about positive experiences.
As for research fauna appears to be a "bad" choice. I'm working on an MA almost exclusively by computer. Apart from some email communications the work consists of using databases. The information is already there, the trick is to ask the right questions.
Conferences
Ah -- those were the days. The best thing about those conferences aka annual scientific meetings was not being presenter aka speaker -- the best thing was the informal exchange of ideas between folks (frequently over a beer or two!). Being a speaker aka presenter wasn't bad. The worst thing was to be a leader aka organizer for the entire conference. It wasn't bad being a session chair -- provided the speakers stuck to their allotted time limits! And yes -- I had all those roles at one time or another! And that was in the pre-video conference days. Face to face in person has a lot of pluses over camera to camera. Al least in my field we did most of our work in labs or factories which was also a plus.
Hang in there!
OGE
Professor emeritus of something but I've forgotten what!