Spent a very pleasant, engaging and thought provoking day at the University of Adelaide ‘Research Day‘ hosted by the school of agriculture, food and wine.
The highlight for me was the short, punchy ‘3 slide, 6 minute’ presentations by students. While some of the language was rather esoteric (to say the least), each and every presentation had some great food for thought and the cross discipline nature of questions was inspiring. The tea-breaks were full of great conversations peppered with phrases like ‘you should talk to so and so about such and such’. Shame this type of event is so hard to scale beyond the people you can cram into a room on a given day – or, could you…
Which got me thinking about the importance of researchers engaging in new media activity on the social web. If only scientists weren’t so freaked out about funding, intellectual property, being scooped and patents.
Imagine what might happen if we had global continuous conversations about deeply geeky things like “
- barley endosperm
- transgenic vs nontransgenic fibre enhancement
- cannibalism amongst predators in the cabbage patch
- heterosis
- novel research outcomes thanks to sabbatical networking
- using one drop of damascenone to make a swimming pool smell nice
- the need to crack spores when detecting airborne fungal pathogens
- what is happening behind the latest confocal z-stack images “
More photos HERE.
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// Nov 14, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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