Important thoughts about museums, extinct species, and all the biological diversity that is going extinct unnoticed (not even preserved as museum specimens)
Andrés Baselga
The other day I got to hold an ivory-billed woodpecker. It hit pretty hard - some thoughts here.
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
New post: All The Things I Was Never Trained To Do. Which turns out to be a sneakily disguised meditation on what university education is for, and thus what university is, and what it isn't - despite the persistence of idiots who don't understand that!
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis:
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I’m a huge museum nerd. When I travel, museums are top of my list – and it doesn’t matter a whole lot what they’re museums of.* But what’s even better than a day at a museum is a chance to tour a m…
Nice seminar by @antoineguisan.bsky.social from @unil.bsky.social at @usc.gal.
Thanks to @biogeography-usc.bsky.social for organizing it!!
Stephen Heard
I’m reminded just about every day that the disconnect between my education, and the career I built from it, is enormous. Or at least, it seems so. I had a pretty unremarkable educational sequence f…
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
