Welcome to my third and final post about Breakthrough Discuss 2019 (here’s Part 1 and Part 2)! It’s time to get ~meta~. As scientists, we spend a good deal of our professional energy on conferences. We prepare (never early enough) for talks and posters, we spend packed days in conference rooms frantically networking and scribbling notes […]
Month: April 2019
Breakthrough Discuss 2019 (2/3): Concepts to Ponder
Welcome to Part 2 of 3 of my Breakthrough Discuss 2019 series (start with Part 1). This post focuses on concepts that I didn’t know before, pieces of information that caused me to change my perspective on something, and questions that I’m still thinking about post-conference. So without further ado: Defining Life One operative definition […]
Breakthrough Discuss 2019 (1/3): Bite-Sized Thoughts
Over the past few days, I’ve been attending the Breakthrough Discuss 2019 conference in Berkeley, California. In general, the conference focuses on space exploration and the search for life in the universe, and this year’s theme was “Migration of Life in the Universe”. As of a few months ago, I’ve been trying a new strategy […]