Conferences are about the rapid dissemination of new science to specialists in the same field. We should treat conference talks as we treat preprints, as a deliberate science dissemination process, and make video recording and proper archiving ubiquitous. Speaker-led demand Recording already happens of course, at some conferences, in a rough and ready way. My…
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PopGroup42
Just before Christmas I went to the 42nd Population Genetics Group conference (“PopGroup”) in Cardiff. This is my favourite scientific meeting and is a real institution in the UK. Its not really population genetics as understood today, although it includes popgen, rather evolutionary genetics in a broad sense. I’ve always thought that this title just…
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