{"id":636,"date":"2015-11-20T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-11-20T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:39:25","slug":"conference-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/11\/20\/conference-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference fatigue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve attended two conferences this week, with different audiences and it&#8217;s been tiring! On Tuesday I was the Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum<\/a> where I presented a poster on my forthcoming Citizen Science project Earthworm Watch. This conference was a celebration of 10 years of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlgf.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Gardening Forum<\/a>, a charity for people and organisations interested in wildlife gardening. The next day I was off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reading University<\/a> presenting the same poster at the Healthy Soils for a Healthy Life event held by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/soil-research-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soil Research Centre<\/a>. This event consisted of talks, networking and workshops on the theme of healthy soils &#8211; including how we define healthy soils and what indicators we can use.\u00a0I would have like to have gone on to the National Biodiversity Network (NBN)\u00a0Conference in York which\u00a0ran Thursday and Friday, but decided two conferences in a week was enough, I have a PhD to do after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Twitter allowed me to view the NBN Conference as it happened using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23NBNConf15&amp;src=tyah\" target=\"_blank\">#nbnconf15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out my Storify of Tweets from the Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference:<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/SoilScholar\/wildlife-gardening-forum-conference\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And from the Healthy Soils event:<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/SoilScholar\/healthy-soils-for-a-health-life\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Healthy Soils for a Healthy Life&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve attended two conferences this week, with different audiences and it&#8217;s been tiring! On Tuesday I was the Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference held at the Natural History Museum where I presented a poster on my forthcoming Citizen Science project Earthworm Watch. This conference was a celebration of 10 years of the Wildlife Gardening Forum, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3203,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}