Caught in My Web: Insights on Professional Conferences

Image by Luc Viatour at Wikimedia Commons.

We are approaching conference season. If you plan on attending a professional conference for the first time or for the umpteenth time, this edition of Caught in My Web should provide you with some helpful tips, strategies and stories.

1. Hilda Bastian at PLOS Blogs gives 7 tips for women at science conferences here (although these tips are good for everyone).

2. Jordan Gaines Lewis gives her personal insight from presenting her research at the 2016 AAAS Meeting at Gaines, on Brains.

3. On TEDBlog, Jedidah Isler reflects on this photo of herself with her colleague friends at the TED2015 conference.

An impressive group of professionals show each other mutual support at
this global conference about Technology, Entertainment and Design.

4. Felicity Muth blogs about her experience at the Animal Behavior Society Conference at her Scientific American Blog, Not bad science.

5. Before you present your research, consider these insights on the science of persuasion: