Wrap-up session in Warsaw

Thursday, May 29 — For the past three years, the organizers of SETAC Europe have held a final session of concluding remarks. They select several people, some of them from the meeting’s organizing committee, to follow different disciplines, and at the end, they mention the talks they thought were particularly good, or identify new directions [...]

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Notes from a Revolution?

Wednesday, May 28 – So, yesterday at noon I attended the traditional Women in SETAC lunch, for attendees interested in women’s issues in the sciences. It’s not just for women, I should note! I had a conversation with one man who thought he and other men were banned from the proceedings, but they certainly are [...]

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Up on the Roof

Here are some of the photos I promised of the roof garden at the University of Warsaw Library.

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Second-Day Sensory Overload

Tuesday, May 27 — I’m looking at a stack of poster reprints that I collected Monday and today, and wondering how I’m going to assimilate all this information. And it’s only the second day of the meeting! Well, I guess I could say it’s almost the third day. Eight parallel sessions on extremely different topics, [...]

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Proceedings at the Palace

Tuesday morning, May 27 — I have about 10 minutes to write before I run off to catch my tram to the meeting — just a few thoughts to record from yesterday, Monday. John Sumpter and I had a quick chat in the hall. For some reason we got onto the topic of print versus [...]

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Beautiful Old World

Sunday, May 25 — Tonight’s opening speeches for the SETAC-Europe meeting took place on a stage in the Kongresawa concert hall, which has a beautiful dome and golden brocade shields mounted on the ceiling. The building we were in once stood as the Communist government’s headquarters, built in the early 1950s, but has since been turned [...]

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Wandering Through Warsaw

Saturday, May 24 — I spent today trying to stay awake, after getting very little sleep on a red-eye that took me through Amsterdam before arriving in Warsaw. I’m sitting here in my hotel room, yawning, after wandering through the city on a cold gray afternoon. Luckily, I had the good fortune to stumble upon the new [...]

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Land of 10,000 Lakes

I’ve been reading up a bit on Poland, before I head off to the annual European meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe), to be held in Warsaw from May 25 to 29. Glaciers shaped the country way back in the Pleistocene, a quick Wikipedia search shows. The ice extended and [...]

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