For many the ACS is the one meeting they go to year in year out. Me too. On and off over approximately 16 years I have attended with a poster or given talks and even done booth duty. But the current meeting in San Diego may well be my last. Monday I gave a couple of …
Tag Archive: ACS
Aug
20
ACS 2015, chemistry talks, posters and Tattoo!
I am just back from a very busy trip to Boston for the ACS. It was great to meet up with many people I see only rarely, at these meetings as well as meet new people including one with a molecule tattoo that got a lot of interest on Twitter . I gave 5 talks …
Aug
11
My updated schedule for the ACS Boston meeting
Well next week it is the ACS in Boston and of course I leave it to the week before to pull everything together. I initially put up here my listing of abstracts titles etc back in May. This has now been updated a bit to include additional talk and poster showings as well as times …
Sep
09
Rethinking what I need in a journal and how I read papers
Last week I was invited at the behest of a major society (the ACS) that has lots of journals, to chat with a consultant – “The objective is to better understand the role scientific publications play in the research community.” – that piqued my interest so I agreed. The discussion happened today, and I felt like …
Mar
26
What am I getting for free from the ACS?
Well today’s gift from my email inbox is as follows. I am not quite sure what I am getting for free from the ACS or even if this is something I would normally pay for. What makes this interesting is the work itself (will reveal all later) was not NIH funded nor in fact funded …
Feb
17
My proposed location for a future ACS Meeting, China
OK, it cannot go on. I am just flattered, absolutely flattered by all these scientific meeting requests I get in my mailbox on a daily, (yes daily) basis to go to meetings. It cannot go on much longer. The object of my frustration reads like the following. Do others get the same requests? 5th Annual …