Workshop Locations: “Communicating Your Results” is in Pereira 140 and “Intro to R” is in Pereira 109. Pereira Hall is across the street from the Featherston Life Science Building, where the registration desk is located.

Workshops

Communicating Your Results to a Scientific Audience and Beyond
Monday, June 23, 1:00 pm
Free (registration required)
Workshop Leaders: Nick Russo, Liza Morse, Liana Van Zen 

Many students and early career professionals get no formal training on how to compile and deliver a talk at academic conferences or other academic settings. This training will cover how to structure and design a presentation for an academic conference, as well as advice on presentation delivery. The workshop leader will provide examples of good and bad slide design and presentation structure. Participants will discuss example presentation slides as groups and will have the opportunity to get feedback on their own presentation slides. In addition to providing formalized training in designing and delivering presentations in academic settings, the workshop leader will demonstrate how to adapt results for a non-academic audience. 

Intro to R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
Monday, June 23, 1:00 pm
Free (registration required)
Workshop Leaders: Dylan Titmuss, Aaron Skinner 

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to the fundamentals of R and RStudio as they relate to scientific data analysis. Content will build on components of the Software Carpentries curriculum and the workshop will be led by a certified Carpentries instructor. In addition to the relevant base R elements, participants will be introduced to three of the core “tidyverse” packages, “ggplot2,” “dplyr,” and “tidyr.” Together, these packages offer powerful and straightforward methods of organizing, manipulating, and visualizing data, and workshop attendees should leave with the ability to independently create plots to visualize their own data. A survey will be sent around to participants ahead of the workshop to gauge attendees’ level of experience with R in order to tailor the workshop accordingly, and participants will also be provided with instructions to download and install the latest version of R and RStudio ahead of time.

Special Event

LGBTQIA+ and Allies Social
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 am
Free (registration required)

This social event is an opportunity to converse with colleagues who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, otherwise queer, as well as allies to this community, to discuss LGBTQIA+ experiences and representation in ornithology and beyond. We will promote a welcoming atmosphere at this event and provide opportunities for folks to meet other members of the queer community and those who support the community. We will create opportunities to promote discussion in a safe atmosphere with small breakout groups and conversation topic suggestions. Breakfast will be provided for all registrants. This event will be private. All contact information gathered when signing up will be kept confidential and not retain after the event. All attendees are expected to maintain the privacy of participants both during and after the event.