#seminars — Public Fediverse posts

ETIUDA AND ANIMA – 14 – 19 October 2025 Krakow, Poland

Around the World in Three Festivals Sitting in my favorite bar in Brussels Airport, drinking my obligatory airport…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Krakow #2D #3D #Animation #AnimationFestival #art #Cartoons #competition #Festival #filmawards #FilmFestival #masterclasses #pitchingcoach #Seminars #Stop-Motion #studentfilms #VR #workshops
https://www.europesays.com/poland/2208/

Free online symposium on using environmental DNA to detect insects. Feb 13, 2026, 11:30-3:30 EST. Multiple talks will be given by eDNA researchers, on bees, butterflies, pollinator networks, and more.

There will be a panel at the end if you have any questions about using eDNA in your own work.

https://nmsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YtxZMU5zRGCPjHVikCgnmQ

#ecology #entomology #bees #pollinators #science #biology #seminars #eDNA #butterflies #academia #MolecularEcology #insects

Free online symposium on using environmental DNA to detect insects. Feb 13, 2026, 11:30-3:30 EST. Multiple talks will be given by eDNA researchers, on bees, butterflies, pollinator networks, and more.

There will be a panel at the end if you have any questions about using eDNA in your own work.

https://nmsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YtxZMU5zRGCPjHVikCgnmQ

#ecology #entomology #bees #pollinators #science #biology #seminars #eDNA #butterflies #academia #MolecularEcology #insects

Why I don’t like recording events

I was asked earlier why I don’t like recording events and realised I’d never actually written it down. There are a few reasons I feel increasingly strongly about this:

• We have started to record academic events by default and I think that is fundamentally problematic in principle
• There’s an assumption that the ease with which we can record online events means we should record them and I just don’t get why that is
• There’s a fundamental value in the academic event as something that brings people together synchronously which recording undercuts
• The biggest problem with online events is passive engagement and (automatic) recording of them fits into that structure
• The quality of engagement should be more important than the quantity in most cases. What matters is how richly a core audience engages and there are trade offs which we need to recognise.
• Recording undermines the space for intellectual improvisation and risk taking
• The evidence I’ve seen (as someone who ran a lot of academic social media for a long time) is that engagement rates with event recording is very slow.
• My hunch is that the request for a recording often tracks a fear of missing out as much as it does a deliberate intention to engage with the recording

I’m not saying never record events. Clearly this serves a purpose in some cases. But we should only record events when we are clear about the rationale for doing so.

#academicEvents #conferences #digitalScholarship #onlineVideo #publicScholarship #seminars #socialMediaForAcademics #workshops #zoom

Why I don’t like recording events

I was asked earlier why I don’t like recording events and realised I’d never actually written it down. There are a few reasons I feel increasingly strongly about this:

• We have started to record academic events by default and I think that is fundamentally problematic in principle
• There’s an assumption that the ease with which we can record online events means we should record them and I just don’t get why that is
• There’s a fundamental value in the academic event as something that brings people together synchronously which recording undercuts
• The biggest problem with online events is passive engagement and (automatic) recording of them fits into that structure
• The quality of engagement should be more important than the quantity in most cases. What matters is how richly a core audience engages and there are trade offs which we need to recognise.
• Recording undermines the space for intellectual improvisation and risk taking
• The evidence I’ve seen (as someone who ran a lot of academic social media for a long time) is that engagement rates with event recording is very slow.
• My hunch is that the request for a recording often tracks a fear of missing out as much as it does a deliberate intention to engage with the recording

I’m not saying never record events. Clearly this serves a purpose in some cases. But we should only record events when we are clear about the rationale for doing so.

#academicEvents #conferences #digitalScholarship #onlineVideo #publicScholarship #seminars #socialMediaForAcademics #workshops #zoom

#Online #morphogenesis #seminars by Lakshmi Balasubramaniam @lakshmib02 “Life and death of cells a mystery solved through #biomechanics”
and by Guy Blanchard @guyblanchard “#Tissue stress #anisotropy and neighbour compression combine in #mitosis to orient #epithelial #cell divisions”

Mon March 6, GMT 2.30pm.

https://ucammorphogenesisseries.com/

Hello world! We are the young Physical Chemists, the youth organization of the German #bunsen society for #PhysicalChemistry! We organize #workshops and online #seminars and inform you about early career opportunities like open positions and grants! #introduction #chemistry #chemiverse #chemtoots #earlyCareerAcademic

Hello world! We are the young Physical Chemists, the youth organization of the German #bunsen society for #PhysicalChemistry! We organize #workshops and online #seminars and inform you about early career opportunities like open positions and grants! #introduction #chemistry #chemiverse #chemtoots #earlyCareerAcademic