Despite my previous gritching about it and despite trying to stay below the radar at work, the boss has requested and required that I attend the Organic Symposium at CU Boulder. I’ll bop over there later today to register and walk the poster session. Maybe there will be some useful grist for the blogmill.
No better reminder of the scientific pecking order than to skuttle around in the shadows of the great grant writers of our time. A certain speaker with a Nobel Prize casts a shadow so large that it is reported to weigh nearly 5 kilograms. Fancy that!
Lamentations on Chemistry 
But Dave Evans never won the Nobel Prize 🙂 !
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I was going to make some cynical comments about several of the evil scientists attending, but I realized this might be taken the wrong way by some of the presenters.
It’s possible they are unaware as to their evil ways( and this might reflect poorly on you).
So I’ll wait till after the conference!
Actually, a colleague and I were discussing it last night at the poster session. My issue has to do with feeling left out. At some point in your career you have to step away from research and move on to other areas of activity. This is where I am. I miss doing research full time and these conferences only serve to remind me of that. I complain only out of envy.