GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

Reply 600

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by Xristina

I really want to go to Austria!! My mum says it's the most beautiful country! How is travelling for conferences? Do you get any time to see the place? Although in my subject most conferences are either somewhere in the UK or in the US. There is one in Italy that I really want to go to, it's basically for postgraduates, but if I get accepted I'll have to go in April during my dissertation studying and I worry I won't have the time. Maybe I should leave it for this year, if I stay for a PhD I will have all the time to go to conferences then... (well, not all the time, but the Masters seems to be flying by)

How important are postgraduate conferences? I mean, should we do our best to participate to as many as we can, or are they not as important since they only are for postgrads?

I don't really know yet because it's my first one - I'm only doing a poster but I'm really nervous that some eminent scientist is going to come along and tear it all to shreds :redface:

Luckily my supervisor is quite keen on getting his students to go to conferences and summer schools, and we get quite a generous grant towards travel and fees. And physicists somehow seem to like having them in ski resorts :biggrin:

Reply 601

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by laeti

I don't really know yet because it's my first one - I'm only doing a poster but I'm really nervous that some eminent scientist is going to come along and tear it all to shreds :redface:

Luckily my supervisor is quite keen on getting his students to go to conferences and summer schools, and we get quite a generous grant towards travel and fees. And physicists somehow seem to like having them in ski resorts :biggrin:

You'll be fine! :jumphug:

Are you gonna go running round the hills singing on my behalf? :ninja:

Reply 602

the_alba

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by QHF

If I recall correctly, the student was a protege and was doing something relevant.

In before an argument about nepotism and an argument about arguments about nepotism.

That's not nepotism, it's giving a bright student a good experience :smile:

I totally endorse that sort of thing. My former A-level teacher will often bring one or two A-level students along to relevant conferences here in Hull. To bright students it's a reward; less keen students wouldn't want to go anyway, and would probably see it as a punishment.

Reply 603

Supermerp

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by laeti

Luckily my supervisor is quite keen on getting his students to go to conferences and summer schools, and we get quite a generous grant towards travel and fees. And physicists somehow seem to like having them in ski resorts :biggrin:

I thought normally it's in ski resorts in the summer though (or all the ones I've seen have been). Does that mean you'll actually be able to ski?

Reply 604

Craghyrax

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by sj27

As far as economics is concerned, I think they probably have the best department in the country. I'm sure other universities may not agree with me :rolleyes:

Overall though I would probably agree with you.

I more meant in terms of being full of themselves and quite conservative, rather than academic standards. However I'm just going on hearsay. Anyhow, that's where I would have studied had I not moved to England :daydreaming:

Reply 605

laeti

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

You'll be fine! :jumphug:

Are you gonna go running round the hills singing on my behalf? :ninja:

HELLS YEAH :h:

Supermerp

I thought normally it's in ski resorts in the summer though (or all the ones I've seen have been). Does that mean you'll actually be able to ski?

Yeah most of the conferences are in summer I think, but luckily this one is always in the middle of the ski season - and we have a 3.5 hour break every afternoon for 'discussions'

Reply 606

wes

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by ice_cube

Dear Halifax. Please unblock my card and let me have some money. This was not the Sunday I had planned.

Urgh. Nationwide have done that to me a couple of times, because the illiterates who handle changes of address can't tell the difference between 1 and 7 (if post gets returned to them 3 times in a row, they automatically block the account completely). So annoying.

Reply 607

Craghyrax

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

You'll be fine! :jumphug:

Are you gonna go running round the hills singing on my behalf? :ninja:

I think Austria is backup for honeymoon if Norway doesn't work out :beard:

Reply 608

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by Craghyrax

I think Austria is backup for honeymoon if Norway doesn't work out :beard:

Well obviously I hope you go to Norway... but should you end up in Austria and see some hills, you know what to do :wink:

Reply 609

ice_cube

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by wes

Urgh. Nationwide have done that to me a couple of times, because the illiterates who handle changes of address can't tell the difference between 1 and 7 (if post gets returned to them 3 times in a row, they automatically block the account completely). So annoying.

My policy area at work covers Nationwide :ninja:

Reply 610

hobnob

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Well obviously I hope you go to Norway... but should you end up in Austria and see some hills, you know what to do :wink:

Become a nun? :p:

Reply 611

evantej

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by Cirsium

[...]

I know this is not strictly related to your area of research, but can you make any book suggestions for a history of evolutionary thought? I had a look on the unit catalogue for Bristol and there is a second-year unit called 'Evolutionary Biology', but it has no reading suggestions. The first-year unit 'Biology 1A: Diversity of Life' lists Campbell Biology, but I am way about how useful it might be, especially given its size.

Reply 612

Craghyrax

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by ice_cube

My policy area at work covers Nationwide :ninja:

Santander does that and worse all the time. :dry:

They're hardly functional. Nobody should ever bank there!

Reply 613

wes

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by ice_cube

My policy area at work covers Nationwide :ninja:

Oh, is it your fault my account got blocked twice?

Reply 614

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by hobnob

Become a nun? :p:

Reply 615

m:)ckel

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My card got swallowed in the machine last week so I had to get another one. The replacement looks new and shiny so that's a good result in my books.

Reply 616

Piggsil

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I remember when Lloyds TSB decided to block my card when I was alone in Rome with no money and needed to get the bus back to L'Aquila, which was where I was living. Apparently it took them 7 months to realise my card had been being used to take money out abroad...

Reply 617

hobnob

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Well, I suppose she could also elope with a u-boat captain, start a choir and fight nazis, but I don't think Dave would approve of that scheme any more than the first one... So that basically just leaves having jam and bread, and sewing ugly clothes, and you don't really need to travel to Austria for that, do you? :dontknow:

Reply 618

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by hobnob

Well, I suppose she could also elope with a u-boat captain, start a choir and fight nazis, but I don't think Dave would approve of that scheme any more than the first one... So that basically just leaves having jam and bread, and sewing ugly clothes, and you don't really need to travel to Austria for that, do you? :dontknow: