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Poster children

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Introduced in response to growing numbers of scientists and conferences, posters gave an outlet to those not invited to give oral presentations. But why are poster sessions still the purview of students?

On the first day of the symposium, I sought out and introduced myself to the organizer, alerting him to the switch in presenters. “Are you prepared?” he asked, presumably — and perhaps reasonably — annoyed that my advisor had sent the junior co-author. “It’s my research,” I assured him. “Perhaps you would prefer to give it as a poster?” he countered. I grasped the subtext. I was being sent to the minor leagues. I firmly declined to go.

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