Conference season

It the end of April and I feel that I have been running since March, mainly because I have been running since March.

I’ve taken to calling this conference season because of all the associations and groups that are holding theirs between the months of March and June. It feel like everyone got spring fever at the same time and started scheduling.

My last conference is tomorrow, a one day symposium locally that discusses the current environment of scholarly communication. A week ago I was in Minneapolis at a two day conference talking about research data preservation. That one was fabulous and I can’t wait to go next year. It was very validating to discover the practices and observations I’ve had are borne out at other institutions. Previous to that was not exactly a conference, but an intense one week training in NCBI resources. It had all the feeling of a conference but with an intense learning environment.

As much as I love all the learning, I need to get refocused on the teaching and research that has to get prioritized before I fall behind. Hopefully this will generate more research to present at other conferences.