First day of the conference proper and everyone is very
keen. The talks start at 9 a.m. and are well attended. There’s a minor problem
in that the rooms where the talks are given are rather dark and stuffy (unless
the air conditioning is on threatening to drown out the speaker!). The rooms
have movable partition walls and whilst that’s understandable in terms of
giving the venue a flexible space it does mean that it is quite noisy.
Each day as well as the talks there are poster sessions and
I duly stuck up a poster I’d brought along for a small White Rose (Universities
of Sheffield, Leeds and York) project on earthworm secreted calcium carbonate.
Poster sessions are wonderful places to observe human behaviour. It is somewhat akin to being in a bazaar with
hawkers positioned at their posters keen to pull customers in and customers
often avoiding eye contact so as to be able to pass a poster without getting
stuck there for 30 minutes whilst someone talks to you about it.
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