As I mentioned in my "Life Updates" blog post, I spent last week in New Orleans, Louisiana for the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPAs). This was my second AAPA conference; my first was last year in Atlanta, Georgia where I gave a talk about a Neandertal genomics study. Four days of hanging out with friends and chatting about science = AWESOME! | |
As you can see from this snippet of the meeting schedule, I was a participant in a rather unique invited session. I've previously mentioned UpGoer Five, and Daniel was kind enough to write up a description of his research following the same rules I did: only utilize the top 1000 most commonly used English words. This was the inaugural UpGoer Five AAPA session, and it was a major success thanks to the coordinators, Kim and Katherine. We were allowed five minutes to talk about our research, and could use whatever words we wanted on our slides while reading our ridiculous scripts. The entire session was filled with laughs, applause, and the strangest allusions that still somehow made sense. And I mean literally filled: it was standing room only in there! Dad and sis came too :) |