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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 12

      Can't wait until the pandemic is over and I have to fly 24 hours across the world to pin up a poster and sleep my way through 3 days of presentations again

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 12

      I kid, conferences are of course immensely important networking opportunities without which I would never have gotten drunk at 2am while eating tteokbokki in Seoul, or gone whiskey-tasting in Dublin

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 12

      I still have notes from both of those conferences, and while unintelligible they are a great reminder of some wonderful collegiate hangovers with my peers

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 12

      By my estimation, every conference has about 3 hours of really useful, high-value content (mostly a combo of the PhD student presentations and the new RCT results) combined with a lot quite boozy networking

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        1. Russell Neches‏ @ryneches Sep 12
          Replying to @GidMK

          Virtual conferences have been pretty OK at helping me keep up with what my colleagues are doing, but weirdly I miss the vendor hall. There aren't many better opportunities to see what our friends in industry are doing.

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        1. Kawasaki_KR-1‏ @KawasakiKR11 Sep 12
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          As you get older, you appreciate the chance to catch up w/ your old friends more, esp. those who went into different sub-fields. That's the main reason I ever go to big conferences at this point.

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        2. Idealistic Pragmatist‏ @IPEdmonton Sep 12
          Replying to @GidMK

          As a senior academic, the pandemic has put an end to my conference travels once and for all, I think. But for the sake of early-career colleagues, I hope we do manage to make them keep happening #WhenAllThisIsOver, because those boozy networking sessions can lead to great things.

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        3. Stephen Everson‏ @s_everson Sep 12
          Replying to @IPEdmonton @GidMK

          And good for keeping us all warm toopic.twitter.com/42DV0XbY4q

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        1. Jason Gallagher‏Verified account @JGPharmD Sep 12
          Replying to @GidMK

          I could not have stated it better. I feel so out of the loop re: GNR resistance without conferences, and the majority of the best info and connections I get from them come in bars. Funny, that.

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        1. Katy Stephenson, MD, MPH‏ @k_stephensonMD Sep 12
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          All my best conference networking has been at bars at 2am, trying to match beers with the big profs. It’s usually fun but it comes at a cost for us women sometimes. You never know what people will say or do. It’s honestly been nice to not worry about that whole thing.

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        1. Ilana L‏ @IlanaLS Sep 12
          Replying to @GidMK

          Every wife/husband/partner of an academic is rolling their eyes right now hearing what loved ones are really doing during "essential" conferences,while we mind the kids yet again for a hellish week. Setting an alarm at 3am to deliver a presentation via Zoom is a better option!

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        1. Dave Bradshaw  💙 #FullyVaxxedOxfordAZ‏ @djbradshaw64 Sep 13
          Replying to @GidMK

          The networking I’ve missed a lot. The hangovers not so much.

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        1. Takeastepback‏ @Takeastepback16 Sep 13
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          Before I went to my first conference, my PhD supervisor gave me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Romance … to read. I subsequently read the other two in the campus trilogy. Although humanities based, it does satirise well the academic conference circuit.

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        1. Michael Palmer‏ @medic_southside Sep 13
          Replying to @GidMK

          You say that as if it's a bad thing.....

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