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Things to do at a meeting





Do present at a meeting if you can. Don’t just turn up, but give a presentation or take a poster. Don’t worry if it’s not great or the most interesting thing ever, you will gain a lot of experience from it, even if your abstract is rejected or your poster is terrible. Most people’s early efforts aren’t great, so don’t be afraid to make a mistake.

Listen to talks and read posters. Again, this is obvious, but it’s easy to get distracted and miss whole sessions of talks, or just glance over a few posters and not read them in depth. If it’s a big meeting, plan ahead so that you make sure you get to see everything you want to. Make sure you take notes too, you won’t remember everything the next day, let alone six months later when you want to refer to a talk, or contact someone about their work.

Do talk to people. It can be really intimidating to go and speak to a senior researcher (or personal idol) you have never met but make the most of the opportunity. If you have a question or request, then ask. The vast majority of people are happy to take time to talk to you and are friendly and welcoming. They will answer your questions and offer help and advice. Even if they are not too nice, the worst they can say is no, which leaves you in the same place as not asking. I spent years thinking I was lucky as everyone in academia I spoke to was really helpful till I realised that actually pretty much everyone is like that. Don’t just target specific people, but make sure you socialise in general – meet people and find out who they are and what they are doing. There will be other students or researchers out there who aren’t speaking, but who are working in fields that overlap with yours. If you only hunt down speakers, or target only the flight guys or whatever you will miss them.

Don’t just meet and talk to people, but get their contact details. Make sure you send them an e-mail after the meeting thanking them for their time and if necessary giving them a gentle nudge to send you PDFs, datasets or whatever was discussed. People are helpful, but not everyone remembers to send that pile of papers to the frightened looking postgrad in the corner a week and one conference drinking session later. This also really helps them to remember you and makes a great impression. If you are looking for a job / grant / sponsor / research collaborator etc. later down the line it will help enormously if people a) can remember who you are, and b) think you are a nice polite person.

If you have the time and money to go to a meeting, make the effort to do so. But don’t just turn up – it can be an excellent opportunity to meet people, make friends and contacts, and gain valuable information about your work and that of others. If you just listen to a few talks and chat to your friends you will get out only 10% of what you might otherwise, even if it appears to be more fun than listening to a talk on fish taxonomy or less risky than talking to a senior professor and asking a stupid question. Do go, and do make the most of it.

Task 15. Read the feedback to article; tell if it is useful to the inexperienced scientific author. What lines of behavior are suggested by the authors of these feedbacks?

Zach Miller: I felt too “newbie” at SVP last year to go up and introduce myself to several of my idols, including Phil Currie, Pete Larson, and Christopher Bennett. I did, however, fess up the courage to say hello to Greg Paul, which was awesome.

I now feel bad that I didn’t talk to Phil Currie, because I totally had an in, there. He sent me a whole bunch of deinonychosaur papers when I was in college to help me with a paper I was doing. And I’ve actually met Pete Larson before, when he gave a talk in Anchorage a few years ago. As for Christopher Bennett, it just seems awkward to go up to somebody and say “I’m a big fan of your work!”

David Hone: I think it’s very common, and of course completely understandable, but not of much help. Of course if you are a PHD student in Europe, you only have three years to get your work done (or only one or two for Masters courses) and may only go to two or three meetings in your whole time, if you don’t speak to someone it can be a massive opportunity completely wasted. And let’s face it, few people are going to be insulted that you think their work is great!

mythusmage: Introduce yourselves by all means. Show your appreciation for his work, and how he’s influenced yours. Even at the greatly advanced age of 40 a fellow still has an ego after all. And don’t be so sure you can always see him next year. People have a distressing habit of dying at most any moment, and by next year your hero could be deceased. As could you.

 

Task 7. A. Look through the words in italics and translate them if you don’t know their meaning ‑ look them up in the dictionary

B. Find the major stages of work with the presentation

 

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