Thanks to DrugMonkey over at ScienceBlogs.com I heard that the Society for Neuroscience is looking for bloggers to cover the annual meeting, being held next week in Chicago, IL. Thinking that I’d be blogging whilst there I applied and gave them this blog as my example. I explained about the “Meandering Scholar” theme and how I would be able to provide perspective from “both side of the bench” (whatever that means). I also highlighted my recent Correspondence to Nature as an example of why I should picked.
And lo and behold, hither, thither and yon, they picked me!
Thank you for applying to be an SfN Neuroblogger for Neuroscience 2009. Your blog application was reviewed, and we would like to invite you to be an official Neuroblogger! If you accept, please provide a final blog URL to program@sfn.org for immediate posting.
As we begin to post final URLs of the accepted bloggers, SfN Interactive will be displayed on www.sfn.org/am2009 page and General Attendees drop-down menu. Announcements will also be made on the main SfN home page, Facebook, and next week’s Neuroscience Nexus. Here are some reminders:
From Oct 17 to 21, please write at least one blog entry per day about activities, events, and experiences related to Neuroscience 2009.
Bloggers will be categorized by theme but will not be limited to blogging about just that theme.
Your blog link will be posted on the Web site until Friday, November 13.
Also, while you are at the meeting, keep an eye out for novel methods and technology development within your area of neuroscience.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
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I was about to say congrats, but ‘bad luck’ instead.
=( I would have taken up the offers for friends’ attics if I were you. And who’s going to blog about it now? =/
Richard – bored, punished.
@rpg: Yeah, every silver lining has a cloud, eh?
@Eva: I’m too old too tired and too jaded.
@Alejandro: As enigmatic and inane as ever!
Tal vez enigmatico, but stupid nothing. Small subnormal.
In the other hand I am speaking with Richard G., that is my friend.
Unhappy!
Neither small nor subnormal.
Abnormal, well, you might have a point.
Thanks Richard, my English is no good, is cool!!
awww. schucks! That is a bummer. Are you sure about the hotel room? (silly question but still.)
I was, as Richard, about to say Congrats but alas, no such thing now :(
Åsa – is really!!
Ian, terrible luck. I’d probably kip on a sofa in your shoes, even though I’m older and more jaded than you are! It sounded like a great opportunity for more exposure as a writer.
There are some modest financial constraints that make it difficult for me to spend a week eating out in a big city too, but those I could have worked around I guess.
For some reason this really feels like the last nail in the coffin of my “scientific” career and I’m feeling rather maudlin about the whole thing. Doubly frustrating is all the effort I had to go to to get approval to attend (memos to the Executive Board etc.,) and then the Admin side of things disapproving my advance expenses request. And finally, after a lot of hard work I lose the hotel room.
I’m just feeling like stamping my feet, right f*** it all, just forget it then!
Bummer. I would have been interested to follow the conference via your blog.
I’d probably kip on a sofa in your shoes
Either Jenny is very small, or Ian has very large feet.
Thanks Martin. That means a lot.
Of course, being the contrary sod I am, I might go for it anyway…vicariously (AKA talking complete nonsense from my office in Memphis…). Don’t be surprised to read about interesting work being done on gliogenesis in the Goblin forebrain, or finding out that Francis Collins’ Keynote address was interupted by the arrival of Cthullu…
@HG: coffee → nostrils → monitor
+1 Sir. Bravo!
I think you should “go anyways” from your Memphis office and blog.
Deceptive, yes.
Career-blowing, possibly.
Funny, yes.
But not quite as funny as if you start talking about Star Wars named genes…because that would be awesome. Wait a minute, that’s already been done.
Oh my god, how daft is that! Thanks for the heads up Krysten!
The best thing? When I was still a travelling sales rep, I got to do a vendor show at Wash U (aka WUSTL). At the show, I mentioned to one of the guys that I was a big fan of that group (my original training is in microbiology and infectious disease, and we studied leishmaniasis and studied this paper in particular). Turns out, the guy I was talking to was IN THAT LAB.
I shook his hand and made sure to bring by food the next time I was in town, and was tempted to start a fan club.
I thought it was just Drosophilists (of which I am one) who did the funky gene names!
Doesn’t drosophila have genes like lush (mediates responses to alcohol) and cheap date (they are especially sensitive to alcohol; another name for the gene is amnesiac, as mutants also have a poor memory)?
Don’t forget that zebrafish have backstroke (I’m imagining some upside-down swimming fish), and tiggy-winkle hedgehog .
I worked in the area of bacterial pathology – nothing that “odd” about our gene naming…sadly.
I worked on cacophony (mating song mutant), and we had stoned and comatose mutants in the lab. And everyone’s favourite synaptic transmission mutant Shibire
Which is abbreviated to Shi and given the designation TS to indicate a temperature sensitive mutant…which lets you write, in grants and manuscripts…
I needed to use some mouse pigmentation genes as controls for something, and they have very cool names too. One of my controls was “cappuccino”. It didn’t knock down well enough, though =(
(Table with mouse pigmentation genes . The cool names are mostly under melanosome contruction in the table, and some below that.)
Really Mr. Brooks deserves the Nobel Prize 2009 for stupidity.
I say Alejandro old bean, that’s rather harsh on the poor chap, dontcha think?
I will not talk more about that, Richard.
I am very angry with Mr.Brooks He doesn’t know me.
I will hold your coat when you fight him.
That’s Dr. Brooks to you mate.