Recent replies to "Travel expenses"

Reply from Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:31:35 -0000

Corie, an official invitation letter would be best to convince my university that this is indeed ~~some fun event in London~~ a professional activity. But beginning of August is early enough for that and it can also be sent by email.

Reply from Corie Lok

Corie Lok — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:07:36 -0000

Hi everyone, we will be trying to secure some sponsorship money to help cover the travel costs of some of the speakers. No guarantees there though.

If you have ideas for places we can approach for funding, please email them to us at network@nature.com.

About ideas for sessions, please hold onto them for now. We will soon be posting a separate topic asking specifically for session/speaker ideas. So Heather, I’ll ask you to repost your idea to that thread. Just trying to keep things organized. We don’t want similar ideas scattered across different threads.

We’ll use those ideas to put together the agenda, which will then be announced here. Heather, Martin, will that be enough of an ‘official’ agenda/announcement for you to get reimbursed for this trip?

Reply from Heather Etchevers

Heather Etchevers — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:03:37 -0000

By the by, like Martin I also need an official programme and announcement with registration (it can be for free) in order to even think about asking for travel cost reimbursement out of my research budget.

I’d like one of the “sessions” to be devoted to the slippery definition of publication of research results, in different scenarios. I have been wondering about this with (truly) Open Notebooks. If I put a photograph in my hard lab notebook and then use it in a figure published in a typical journal, no problem. However, if that photo has been seen widely, is that one still publishable? As in a comment I received from across the ocean, clearly if I want a (European) patent on those results, they are considered to be out there and therefore not patentable.

I’m also thinking for instance of user-submitted photos to company websites.

Just something to mull over.

Reply from Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:09:30 -0000

The recent poster discussion got me interested in the format. This might actually work nicely for a blogger meeting, with enough white space at the bottom of the poster for comments. Posters (essentially blog posts) could at the same time also be posted to the web. And those that can’t make it to London can at least write comments – or be present as a poster boy.

All this of course assumes that there is space for posters at the RI, which could be a big problem.

Reply from Scott Keir

Scott Keir — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:45:06 -0000

I don’t know of many funders, but understand that most require that the person travelling give a paper or poster session presentation – so could the conf ensure that there’s plenty of possibilities for that?

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:10:56 -0000

Great suggestions already. Keep ‘em coming.

Reply from Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:57:24 -0000

Does this Wellcome programme fit? The deadline is this coming Friday though.

Reply from Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:55:09 -0000

I’ve been throwing around a few ideas for trying make up small amounts of money to help people without the freedom to use work travel budgets to travel to these types of meetings. But I don’t think any of them would raise more than a few hundred. And most of them involve setting up an external website which isn’t really appropriate here given the support Nature are giving already.

If its any help to anyone I am seriously looking at putting together a one day meeting on the following Monday at Southampton on ‘Open Science’. Anyone coming some distance could get two meetings for the price of one? But still both non-traditional so hard to convince the boss probably.

How about approaching Wellcome/EPSRC for support through a ‘communication of science’ strand? You know, pushing the young, energetic scientists exploiting new communication media button. I imagine with the wealth of experienced writers here putting a strong case together wouldn’t be too hard.

Reply from Bob O'Hara

Bob O'Hara — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:20:45 -0000

Can’t we get a big evil pharmaceutical company to sponsor us?

Reply from Richard Grant

Richard Grant — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:29:35 -0000

I’m in Aus – looking at 1200 quid probably.

Love to be there, but can’t afford it out of my own pocket.