Recently I came to learn that you probably know that your science is important when people are stealing your poster. This happened during the recent European Endocrinology Congress, which was held in the beginning of May in Wroclaw. We were happy to have two posters during the event, about health-related quality of life and about cardiovascular risk factors in the metabolic syndrome. Both studies were performed within the LifeLines Cohort Study.
On Sunday morning I have mounted our posters to the poster walls. This proved to be slightly difficult, as the posters (canvas, so you can fold them; I really HATE posters you need to roll up and carry separately in large tubes on an airplane) were heavier than the fixing material could hold. However, with some extra sellotape we managed to securely glue them to the poster board. I was really surprised when on Monday, on the day I had to present the posters, one of them had disappeared. As they were firmly sellotaped to the board, it did not fall off, but was removed deliberately. At such a moment you have mixed feelings. First, you feel angry because it is very difficult to demonstrate your research results when the poster is gone. However, since someone has taken the time to find your poster and take it, amongst over 1200 other posters, and the sneak through security, this must mean that he or she really liked the research topic. Or, alternatively, the canvas may be of use to build a shelter home, you never know who took it and why. May even have been a homeless guy.
I left a simple sign, stating the whereabouts of the poster and sending out a sort of APB (see the first picture). Luckily, the organisers were very helpfull, and were able to print out a copy of our poster in A3 format, so that I could hang it side by side with the other poster, and still was able to show the results to our interested collegaues.
PS. If you happen to find the poster, keep it. It will make an excellent sun screen in the upcoming summer !!! Enjoy !!
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