This weekend marked my first Symposium - I felt like an actual academic (clever, very clever..). It was an insightful, informative and fascinating weekend full of lectures - not for the light-hearted but don't panic, a couple of great socials and cake sale thrown in - everybody likes cake, eh?! We conducted hands-on necropsies of a Harbour porpoise, Common seal and a theoretical lecture-based Baboon necropsy (health and safety constraints, of course..) Heard lectures from res