A morning glory plume moth (Emmalina monodactyla; Pterophoridae), I think. No doubt reared on the field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) that tends to be the focal point of my garden each year.
I took this photograph on January 31st while wearing a t-shirt. I like flowers and insects and warm weather, but I sure miss the discrete seasonality of my youth. Winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), growing in the Crum Woods, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
For your viewing pleasure, a photograph featuring a ginormous dog with a ginormous droolcicle. It’s close to 9″ long at maximum stretch, I’d wager. Happy Wednesday!
I’ve been invited to give a lecture on poster design at the NFID‘s 15th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research this Spring, in Maryland, and have tentatively titled my talk, ”Confronting the epidemic of bad posters at scientific conferences.” To prepare myself, I wanted to drum up some opinons on poster sessions at virology-related meetings (I haven’t attended any). Anyone? Or anyone willing to give me photographs of past sessions from conferences #1-14?
For those of you visiting this blog for poster design tips, consider submitting your finished poster to The Force and Motion Foundation’s Virtual Poster Session. The organization, the non-profit arm of Advanced Mechanical Technology (AMTI), doles out 8-10 $500 checks four times (!) a year to help fund travel to your next meeting. Check out the link above for more details. Screen shot of a sample poster is below. (They award a few $10,000 scholarships, too.)
For those of you visiting for some other reason, just move along.
