Fame, perhaps. Fortune? if only.

[astra_nomer]

Someone in the administration has decided that the abstract I've submitted for the conference I'm going to in two weeks (eep!) is worthy of a press release.

Well, gosh.

For some reason, I feel like scientific renown is my goal. However, press releases make me feel all squicky. Perhaps it's because there's some sense in the scientific community that press releases are for people who toot their own horn, or something. And the popular press invariably misses some fundamental scientific concept that renders the whole articles unintelligible to an actual scientist.

Ah well. Recognition is good anyway, right?

Comments

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! As long as you aren't out there pushing cold fusion, I think press releases are just fine. Especially if they are press releases by a conference/journal that you've submitted to, not you hunting down some newspaper yourself. Will you post a pointer to your press release when it comes out? Please?

(of course, you have to expect that they will oversimplify your results in some horrendous fashion, but as long as it gets the right people interested enough to go look for the real literature behind the press release, it has served its function)

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

It's the press office at my inistitution that's determined that it's newsworthy.

I looked at the draft of the press release and immediately had to set the writer straight on several counts. Hopefully the next draft will be better.