The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' title='The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' />Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week. This morning, I and the other 1. SVPCA 2. 01. 7 received a useful document, SVPCA reportfor attendees, which collects and analyses delegates feedback on the meeting. It prompted me to mention a few more thoughts of my own. First, I didnt like the shortening of the meeting, from the usual three or even four days to two and a half or just two if you ignore the macroevolution symposium. But its apparent from the gathered feedback that nearly everyone disagrees with me on this. My position may be an artifact of my idiosyncratic status on the edge of the field SVPCA is pretty much my only physical non blog contact with the vertebrate palaeontology community, so by the time Ive taken a week off work for it, the more of that time I can use for it, the better. By contrast, people who spend most of their work hours with other palaeontologists dont have that incentive, and see a longer meeting as a financial burden. Im guessing that if the survey had specifically asked for opinions on meeting length and then compared those opinions with peoples career stage, theyd find a strong correlation between amateur and other unusual statuses, and preferring a longer meeting. Sadly for me, it seems pretty clear how this one is going to go the meeting is attended overwhelmingly by professionals of various career stages. The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' title='The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' />Since the majority of those prefer the shorter meeting, I imagine Birminghams abridged programme will become the new normal. Second thing a lot of people complained that the posters were only up for the dedicated two hour session, and quite a few didnt like having a dedicated poster session at all. Once more, I find myself in a minority here. As someone presenting a poster, I very much appreciated having time dedicated to it. And I also liked that it was restricted to a specific slot, so I didnt feel I had to spend the whole meeting babysitting the poster. Wine was provided for this session, which made it feel like a friendly, bustling session with plenty of science going on, and time to go and physically fetch the people who I specifically wanted to discuss my poster with. So I would definitely support a dedicated two hour poster session with wine at future meetings though I wouldnt object if the posters remained up in the background for the next day, if that was logistically easy. It wasnt in Birmingham. The third thing, which I forgot to mention on my feedback form, is that lightning talks need to be all together in a single session. The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' title='The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Adobe' />These talks didnt really work at Birmingham. By tagging two or three of them on the end of a regular session, they simply came across as a lesser versions of regular talks tail enders with no particular merit of their own. But I do think lightning talks can work well Ive been in conferences admittedly in computer science and library science rather than palaeo where the lightning talk sessions have been the best in the conference. The key is keeping all of them together in a single, dedicated session, and really keeping the pace up whizzing through each talk within a strictly enforced five minute time limit, and leaping from subject to subject. It can be exhilarating. There were specific reasons why it couldnt be done this was at this years meeting paucity of lightning talk submissions, peoples difficult schedules and unexpected withdrawals all meant that the original plan couldnt be adhered to. But I would hate to see lightning talks dropped from the conference because of their underwhelming impact this time around. The fourth thing is that I was not wholly convinced by the symposium. Given the scarcity of talk slots, their limited length, and the carefully blinded abstract review process, it seems inimical to invite a special anointed class of speakers who get twice as long and dont have to go through review. I might have been convinced despite this, had the quality of the talks been uniformly higher. But as one respondent to the survey wrote I was alarmed and disappointed to hear one presenter say that they had put their talk together the night before, and it showed. It really did. Surely if being invited to give a double length talk is anything, its an honour. People in receipt of that honour should either do their job to a level that merits it or, if they dont have time, politely decline and let someone else have the slot. Finally, and least important, the annual dinner. This was a curry, with a good selection and far more food than we needed. But the report says there have been a few comments that more people might attend if the food was more of a meat and two veg type affair, and that some people would like to see a more formal, or more special dinner. For whatever its worth, I threw my hat in partly because it was a curry. In my experience, attempts at catering special dinners for large groups tend to produce mediocre food tarted up, which is why my group tends to skip the dinner. But Im glad I went this year. I liked the sense of being part of an ongoing community, of seeing the handover to next years host Rob Sansom, hearing who the winners of the prizes were, and so on. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Qq. Lyberty. coms weeklymonthly splash page. Yes, a splash page is old fashioned, but its been a tradition here since 1999. Special Article. 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