#RSCPoster 2019 – highlights

6 March 2019

The fifth edition of our twitter poster conference, #RSCPoster, came to an end this morning, after a straight 24 hours of tweeting from all over the globe.

Over 500 researchers uploaded their work as posters, and there were almost 10,000 tweets from over 3,000 contributors, reaching a potential audience of nearly 2 million.

The conference started up at 9am GMT, bright and early for those in the UK, and just as those in Australia were going to sleep...

We have a good start of the twitter poster session #RSCPoster #RSCEng Let's get the ball rolling! Australia is tweeting in on a lovely evening!

— Tanja Junkers (@polymerreaction) 5 March 2019

We've got several final year MChem students participating in #RSCPoster today. We'll be retweeting their posters and trying to resit temptation to ask *really* hard questions of them ;)

— Keele Chemistry (@keelechem) 5 March 2019

People started displaying their posters, with at least one exhibitor taking the opportunity to do their very first tweet!

#RSCPoster #RSCCat This is my first twitter post and I felt really excited that the conference can be held in this way. I am a PhD student from the University of Manchester. I have shown what I am doing with biomass photo-reforming in the following poster. Please enjoy 😀😀😀 pic.twitter.com/O3NlYlpBzN

— Lan Lan (@LanLan_513) 5 March 2019

Hydrogen! The true HERO of energy storage. 🦸♀️Here's a fun twist on my #hydrogenstorage research. The vapour hydrolysis of complex hydrides using a purpose built system! Designed by @paulbrack25 #RSCPoster #RSCMat @LboroScience @LboroDocCollege @LboroChemistry pic.twitter.com/nzCYkkttf3

— Lizzie Ashton (@LizzieRAshton) 5 March 2019

Some people really stretched themselves, presenting animations as part of their posters.

Hello all! My poster talks about some small but surprisingly potent kinase inhibitors for probing cancer disease pathways #RSCPoster #RSCOrg #RSCChemBio pic.twitter.com/0JeQ5CRdkm

— Fiona Scott (@fi0n0) 5 March 2019

People appreciated the unique format of the conference, allowing them to attend from all sorts of unconventional locations...

It’s quite surreal to be ducking out of the rain while working on-site to answer some great questions about my PhD work! #RSCPoster #RSCEnv pic.twitter.com/43z0lai7FI

— Hannah Walker (@hlwalker28) 5 March 2019

Looking at all the #RSCPoster conference posters was the best way to spend sitting in an online queue for @TheLionKing at Edinburgh Playhouse this morning. Tickets sorted for December and I'm enjoying chatting with other chemists about their work!

— Fiona Scott (@fi0n0) 5 March 2019

An integral part of the conference is the questions, comments, feedback, and suggestions that each exhibitor receives on their poster.

Love this - very thought provoking #RSCEdu #RSCPoster

— Emily Seeber (@emily_seeber) 5 March 2019

love how interdisciplinary your project is. #RSCPoster #RSCCat

— Idil Ismail (@IdilIsmail96) 5 March 2019

Very interesting materials! I am an #NMR fan myself and I love polymers. You seem to analyse your polymers with NMR in solution. Have you observed (or do you expect) issues with incomplete solubility or aggregation in these systems? #RSCPoster #RSCMat

— Marion Gaborieau (@NMaRion_WSU) 5 March 2019

Thanks, Here is a sketch of the vapour hydrolysis cell. Our group is currently looking at the scale up, performing experiments with the exclusion of oxygen for increased safety due to the highly exothermic nature of the reaction. #RSCPoster #RSCMat pic.twitter.com/X2yyJBsbKP

— Lizzie Ashton (@LizzieRAshton) 5 March 2019

But by far the most liked and shared poster was this one from Zoë Ayres, highlighting the mental health difficulties that some people experience while completing a PhD, and offering tips and advice:

Wanted to enter a poster this year on something that I think is very important and needs to be talked about more. #mentalhealth during a PhD, so here's my entry #RSCPoster #phdlife #phdchat #TimetoTalk pic.twitter.com/8tfPHtEKe6

— Dr Zoë Ayres (@ZJAyres) 5 March 2019

After 24 hours of round the clock and round the world tweeting, it was time for everyone to put away their posters for another year.

What an intense 24h! This year's #RSCPoster competition organized by @RoySocChem has been a great opportunity to share thoughts between fellow members of the scientific community and to get some new ideas as well! Thanks to the organisers to make this possible! #RSCInorg

— Eduard Garrido (@bobytxec) 6 March 2019

The winners will be announced next week.

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