Bonus 21: What's it really like at academic conferences? (Patreon)

If you go to a big music festival, there's a good chance you won't actually get to hang out with any of the musicians who are playing, but if you go to a bit academic conference, it's likely that almost everyone you meet there will be presenting their work. In fact, it's uncommon to meet someone who *isn't* giving a talk at an academic conference. 

Academic conferences are quite different to festivals, fan cons and industry conventions. In this 21st bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren take you into the world of the academic conference. Why do people pay to travel and present their research? What's the difference between giving a talk and giving a poster? And how do you meet other people?

Plus: we're taking advantage of both being in the same place at the same time to record a special bonus Q&A episode for patrons! Normally, we ask $10+ patrons for bonus topic ideas, but here we're opening up the floor to all patrons for your shorter linguistics questions! Let us know in the comments below, using patreon's direct message feature in the sidebar, or by emailing contact@lingthusiasm.com before November 15th so we get them in time to record.

We'll see some of you very soon at the liveshows in Melbourne and Sydney! If you haven't claimed your free patron tickets yet, you can do that here. If you have, we've got your name safe on a list at the, and we'll be sending out email reminders closer to the show.

We're also hitting our two-year anniversary this month! In celebration, we want to help new people find the show -- there are still people out there who would be totally into a fun linguistics podcast in their ears but don't even know we exist yet! Plus, if you tag us in your rec on social media by the end of November, we'll thank you by name in our special anniversary thank you post! You can pick a specific episode or share this post which contains handy links to all our episodes so far. 

Links:

• Liveshows details!
• Liveshows, tickets for Patrons! 
• We're trying to thank MORE people than our 1 year anniversary recommend-a-thon 
• Gretchen's guide to academic small talk 
• Academic conferences for students 
• Example of conference livetweeting (from a conference on Pokemon names)

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript is available for this episode as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page.
Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All ThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our audio producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producers are Emily Gref and A.E. Prevost, our production assistant is Celine Yoon and Fabianne Anderberg, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.