5am talk tomorrow "No, that's not a UFO, that's Starlink" for the IAU General Assembly, about how astronomers are doing ALL of the public education for satellite companies while they destroy the sky, the atmosphere, and Low Earth Orbit for profit. Meanwhile, every fucking article that talks about SpaceX includes the line "SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment." Do better, SpaceX. You suck.
I hope I am tired enough that I avoid rage-screaming over Zoom.
It's just after 5am, I've been signed in to the (empty) Zoom room for 15 min (as I was directed) but nobody is here yet to test my presentation, and I can't hear the sound in the room (but I *can* hear annoying hold music). And I heard that in the previous session all the remote speakers had no sound. So...I'm not real confident this is going to work...
Why are hybrid meetings so hard to implement?
@sundogplanets
"Why are hybrid meetings so hard to implement?"
maybe this is a controversial opinion, but based on those that I've attended, I'm not convinced that they are.
I think they require a moderate amount of effort, which is apparently more than some people are either willing or realise.
See also (and especially) poster sessions at remote meetings "it's impossible to do posters remotely", said people who spent zero minutes thinking about how to do posters at their remote meeting.
@sundogplanets If I may indulge a rant about remote conferences we had in the previous few years.
The 2nd worst thing you can do is to hold the poster session without spending more than about 30 seconds caring about it, because "it's just a poster session".
The worst thing you can do is to hold a remote conference with no poster session because "poster sessions don't work remotely" (and no lightning talk session etc instead), because then a whole generation lose out on their first conference.
Prof. Sam Lawler
Tom Hayward