Hello from Austin, folks!
I would like to share some thoughts from my blog as I prepare for the ESA 2011
meeting starting here today, and wonder why this big meeting isn't in the news
- anywhere:
http://leafwarbler.posterous.com/a-few-thousand-ecologists-meet-in-the-city-to
I would appreciate
Hi All:
In response to Madhu's query--
Because most scientific organizations such as ESA work under embargoes, you are
unlikely to see advance news stories about the meeting. Once the embargoes
begin to lift (the day a presentation is made at the Annual Meeting), the media
will begin to
Ecolog and Madhu:
Next to sociologists, ecologists take the cake for finger-wagging; thus
they end up ignored. Maybe if they did less preaching and more explaining
in terms others can understand, things would BEGIN to change. But don't
expect it to flip overnight, it will take time to heal
Wayne and others,
I don't think ESA will be ignored in Austin -- just as it has not been ignored
in other cities where it has met in the past. I think the media will have
reportage on the meeting once it is underway.
So far as fingerwagging by ecologists: ESA could do a much better job of
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