A quick ISBE 2012 Round-up

Feel like to write something but too tired to write a proper blog, so just listed some points:



The WOW moments:

1. Super excited when listen to some amazing research.
2. Listened to some fun debating among senior researchers about scientific points of view.
3. Had some interesting discussion about what me or other people are going to do next to dig into current problems/questions.
4. Listened to some exciting discussion among other PhD students and senior researchers.
5. Attended to the talks given by three researchers that I admire a lot (Bart Kempenaers, David McDonald and Erik Postma) all on the same day and happened to have dinner with David that evening!  (I think I was as happy as a silly fan...)
6. Had a chat with Bart about my work!!  Thanks to his suggestions!!
7. I did not forget what I did with my project due to nerve and my brain did not go blank, so I think my oral presentation went better than I expected!!
8. Met a PhD student studying in shorebirds in Barrow!!!! Talked about Barrow with someone who likes that place too is amazing, and geeee I super miss my dreamland!!!
9. Totally lose the ability of expressing myself clearly in English because tiredness... Wow the logic is abandoning me... Orz

Fun moments:

1. Got to know some nice and interesting people, and even make friends with some of them!!
2. Really enjoyed hanging out with my group mates from Otago and their friends from Brazil!! (kind of repeated in point 1)
3. Fall in love with Lund. A friendly and charming university town.

Results:

1. Motivated and want to speed up writing manuscript and doing some more analyses.
2. Super exhausted after a 7 days of conference - 6 days of main conference plus one day of post-conference symposium, though I was 100% saturated with talks and left a bit early on the last day...

Acknowledgements:

1. Supervisors and group mates for the comments and suggestions for my talk.
2. Group mates for making sure I would not get lost!
3. The five different funding and the financial support from my main supervisor for me to attend this ISBE in Sweden. (Two of the five funding are also for the field work in UK.  Much appreciated!)

Conclusion:
The world is huge, I want to keep exploring it!

Workshop- How to Get Published in International Scientific Journals

今天早上參加了中研院生圖和 Elsevier Taiwan 合辦的講座 “How to Get Published in International Scientific Journals?”。講者是 Mr. Arnout Jacobs (Elsevier’s director of strategy and business development)。以一個兩小時的講座來說，內容還蠻豐富的。先介紹過去十年來的科學期刊發表趨勢。接著從出版社編輯的角度，說明作者應如何選期刊、寫文章，到該如何與編輯、reviewers 溝通，完整地將整個流程帶過一遍。

與會者多是像我一樣的年輕人。我們發表文章的經驗還很少，可能聽過學長姐的發表經驗談，或是認識幾位當過 reviewer 的老師，但我們對 "編輯(Editor)" 還很陌生。然而，隨著投稿的文章數倍增，越來越不可能讓 reviewers 一一看過，而需先由編輯篩選文章。因此，不少文章會因為格式有誤(他說不要小看這點!)，或研究主題不符合該期刊的長期或短期走向，而在編輯手上就夭折，到不了 reviewers 那關；又或者當幾位 reviewers 互相持有正反面意見，這時候編輯就會對文章存亡有比較大的影響力了。

講座的講義可以到 Elsevier 台灣官網 下載，詳細內容我就不贅述了。在此用 Mr. Jacobs 引述的一段內容作結：

What gets you accepted?

• Attention to details
• Check and double check your work
• Consider the reviews
• English must be as good as possible
• Presentation is important
• Take your time with revision
• Acknowledge those who have helped you
• New, original and previously unpublished
• Critically evaluate your own manuscript
• Ethical rules must be obeyed

    - Nigel John Cook, Editor-in-Chief, Ore Geology Reviews

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2010 猛禽調查訓練營招生簡章

• 目的：培養猛禽調查研究人才並推廣猛禽研究及保育之風氣。
• 主辦單位：台灣猛禽研究會 協辦單位：自然境界有限公司
• 研習時間：2010年4月10日至5月1日，為期四週。第一和第三週的週六舉行室內課程（共6節），一三週的週日與二四週的週六舉行室外實習（共4次）。
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• 招生人數：20名。
• 研習內容：涵蓋日行性、遷移性及留棲性猛禽之生態概念、研究案例及調查訓練。詳細課程內容請見 台灣猛禽研究會網站
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