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Category Archives: Conferences
IUPS Part 2
Now that IUPS 2013 has concluded successfully, I thought I should add a few of my conference thoughts, other than those mentioned in the earlier post. As I am a lazy so-and-so, and I can’t muster too much thinking … Continue reading
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Too Many Tweets Make A… Historical Record?
In which we debate the historical usefulness of hashtags, especially in connection with scientific conferences like IUPS 2013. I occasionally get asked, within my University and even beyond it, to pose as some kind of social media expert. Which I’m … Continue reading
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IUPS Part 1
A dispatch from the IUPS conference in Birmingham. I have to admit to some trepidation when it comes to big international mega-conferences like the IUPS (International Union of Physiological Sciences). They have never entirely agreed with me. The first conference … Continue reading
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Job or vocation
I have recently been doing a bit of live on-line virtual commentating. Strange but true. I’m not sure exactly why. Perhaps it is another of my frustrated ambitions to be a sports commentator (of which more later). Or an online … Continue reading
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Watching football can damage your health
My second instalment from Physiology 2010. At any large scientific meeting, with lots of things on at once, there are lectures that you feel you really have to go to, commonly because they are in your research area. There are … Continue reading
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Conference blogging (possibly) – Physiology 2010 (Updated)
In a moment of absent (weak?) mindedness, I have agreed to blog from a conference – the Physiological Society’s Summer bash, Physiology 2010, starting just about now. This will be a first for me – though I have done conference … Continue reading
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