<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Lester et al.-<div><br></div><div>I prefer turning meaningless acronyms into ludicrous conference names, then, if I have any further interest in it, googling to find the banal truth.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman"">****************************</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman"">Bart Farell (ret.).</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman"">Institute for Sensory Research</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman"">Department of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman"">Syracuse University</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium">****************************</span><br></p></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM Andrew Watson <<a href="mailto:awatson3@apple.com" target="_blank">awatson3@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Lester et al.,<div><br></div><div>I completely agree, but would go further (politely):</div><div><br></div><div>Complete name</div><div>Dates</div><div>Location (or “Virtual")</div><div>URL</div><div><br></div><div>-Beau</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Lester Loschky <<a href="mailto:loschky@ksu.edu" target="_blank">loschky@ksu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would like to politely make a request of anyone posting conference information. If the conference name has an acronym, please spell out the full conference name at the beginning of the announcement. That way, anyone who doesn't already know the acronym can have some idea of what it is, and if they should look into it. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Some people posting conference information might think, "anyone who doesn't already know the acronym for our conference, doesn't need to know." At least, that seems to be the implicit assumption of the numerous conference postings that only give their acronyms throughout the entire posting. However, I am guessing that most, or many, conferences aspire to bring in new members and presenters, sometimes even from outside of their normal group of members. Such new members or presenters can bring interesting new perspectives. So, it certainly can't hurt to spend the extra 1-3 seconds it takes to type out the full name of the conference at the top of the message.<div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Les Loschky</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lester Loschky</div><div><div>Professor</div><div>Associate Director, Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity Center<br>Department of Psychological Sciences<br>416 Bluemont Hall</div><div><div>1114 Mid-Campus Dr North</div>Kansas State University<br>Manhattan, KS <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica">66506-5302</span> </div></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:loschky@ksu.edu" target="_blank">loschky@ksu.edu</a></div><div>research page: <a href="https://www.k-state.edu/psych/research/loschkylester.html" target="_blank">https://www.k-state.edu/psych/research/loschkylester.html</a></div><div>lab page: <a href="http://www.k-state.edu/psych/vcl/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.k-state.edu/psych/vcl/index.html</a></div><div>Pronouns: he, him, his<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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