I'm very good at ignoring my uni work, so no I don't work when sick. I don't seem to have that guilt mechanism that other PhD students seem to have!

I'd check your university guidelines if you can.
But otherwise, ours were quite specific in terms of what sections we should include in the report: Background, aims, methods, plan of investigation, results obtained, future work, references. (on the other hand no one seemed to know exactly what should go under each heading so I made it up!)
For the presentation I guess people want to know what you've been doing. If you have no data yet, you could do a talk on what you are planning on doing, along with the background to the study.

I don't think there are hard and fast rules on what should be done in the first year. It depends so much on the field, but also the individual project. At the end of my first year I had no real data to speak of, but I had a clear plan, which seemed to work fine. Another had spent a year in a lab and had a load of data. we both passed fine (up)

Sorry to start another thread on my conference woes but I have a more specific question.

I was due to travel to Montreal for a conference but have been grounded due to volcano flight problems. The conference offered to put a copy of posters (for those Europeans unable to travel) on their website and I thought why not.

I've since been thinking of trying to present the data elsewhere, which is where the problem comes in: other conferences stipulate the data must be unpublished, but if it is published on another societies website and I had an abstract accepted, which will presumably go in the conference proceedings, does this make it published?
Would asking to have it removed from the original conference's website make a difference? (and if I do should I be honest and explain I want to use the data elsewhere or would that look bad?)
I could contact the second conference for advice, but I don't want them to look unfavourably on my abstract submission!

As the poster stands, the abstract is slightly different to the one originally accepted, due to the abstract being written when I had less data. I'm still collecting data so it could all change slightly again (to make it slightly different from the original poster, though probably without changing conclusions) Dunno if this makes a difference.

Sorry for all these rambling questions. I just don't know the correct conference etiquette (if even there is one, being unable to attend due to unprecedented grounding of all flights is slightly unusual....) Thanks for any advice.

Flight cancelled. sigh :(

Now gotta lok for another conference to display my poster. (or go with the hang it in the kitchen option!)

Cheers for responses. Am now booked on flight for tommorrow, which if it goes ~i will only miss day one of conference. I know two people going and we're all in thesame boat with flights.
If flight cancelled I guess I'll find one closer to home and hope I can use the poster for that.

I'm in my third year and for various reasons have not yet been to a conference. I was meant to fly out today for my first ever one, but instead I'm stuck at home what with all the flights grounded. And I spent ages this week getting my poster finished. Might hang it in the kitchen and make my housemates read it!

He might soon get the message....."why does Satchi sick her earplugs in just when I get my lunch out?!"

I hate the noise of other people eating, but I consider it my problem not theirs. I used to share with one person who ate really loudly, but I would never have told her (I wouldn't want to offend her plus I'm far too British for saying anything!). I find the more I focus it the louder other people's eating seems and if I'm also eating I don't notice other people as much.

Goal for todayis to finish and print my poster so I can go home at a reasonable time to wash and pack (and finishi in enough time to hang out with my boyf for a bit) for going to a conference tommorrow.

The airbrushed one looks weird next to the unairebrushed, but then it's what we're used to seeing in magazines.
I can vouch for Yasmin too - cleared the spots up on my back nicely (though I did find the combind pill made my skin blotchy on my face. Since coming off it my skin is greasier and i get more spots on my back - but strangely my face is better!)

It's awful isn't it! I tripped over a blind woman's white stick when I was about 15. I was like I'm so sorry I didn't see you, which made me feel even worse!

I don't scan just anyone, you have to match my patient group in terms of age, gender and years in education. I already have trouble with my groups not being matched on education so have had to stop using controls with PhDs! Now if you were a middle aged woman who left school at 16 I'd be scanning you next week!

Eska can't believe the skirt incident! I'd have been so embarrassed/ hope it improved attendance though!

Not so embarrading more stupid - spent about 2 hours today trying to figure out why the data in two files of the same data (one excel one SPSS) didn't match. Turns out that I'm rubbish at data entry! you can automate as much as you can using computers but can't get rid of human error!

Recently - i arranged for two participants to come in for MRI scans, but then booked the scan slots of half an hour later. The second person arrived before the first had even gone into the scanner and so i had to do lots of apologising about the delay.

I wasn't paying attention walking round town and nearly knocked a lady over in a wheel chair. I'm pretty sure she was someone who had participated in my study the week before so I ran away before she could recognise me!

Mine doesn't. I do research into Lupus, and I always feel slightly guilty when patients ask why Lupus and I have to admit it was the project itself I was interested in and before applying i had to google what Lupus was becasue I'd never heard of it. :$

This thread prompted me to have a look what is about. There was only one suitable job and it was just a 6 month contract. This whole job seeking thing is gonna be hard (and I'm nowhere near finished) :-(

I think it does get harder as you get older - peple seem settled with their own friends/partners. I know when my sister last moved she put a lot of effort into making friends by joining clubs and societies that she was interested. She ended up with some good friends but put more effort in than a lot of people do/would.
Last time I moved (which was to start PhD) I moved in with people. housemates=instant friends! then you can steal all their friends!