Thinking Out Loud

This coming Wednesday I fly to Florida for the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. AChemS is the world’s biggest gathering of smell and taste scientists, but compared to the Society for Neuroscience (30,000 attendees) it’s a positively intimate gathering (only ~1,000 people).

I always look forward to going. I get to catch up with friends and colleagues and see what’s happening in all areas of the field, from the molecular to the behavioral. (Friends/colleagues, gossip/scientific updates: the categories blur. I wrote about the rhythms of the AChemS meeting here.)

The meeting runs through Sunday and I’ll be there for the whole thing. Given the data-packed days and long nights, this means blogging will be slow on First Nerve.

Unless . . . I blog about the meeting while I’m there.

I’m not sure how, or if, this could work. My usual M.O. is to fall into bed at 2 a.m., get up at 8, recaffeinate, and start all over again. Maybe I can blog from the bar. I dunno; guess I’ll give it a try.

FWIW you can download the meeting program here or flip through the abstracts here.Let me know if something strikes your fancy and I'll try to cover it.