Archive for 2012
Translating geek speak
If you say something and then I say, “WHAT?! You don’t know about <some cool thing>!?!” you might think that I think you’re stupid for not knowing about <some cool thing>. Actually, I am just really, really excited that I get to tell you how cool <some cool thing> is.
Remember that time in grad school
When you took a class from your supervisor and wrote almost all of the term paper in one intense weekend with three whole days to polish and check references and then accidentally overwrote it with an old outline backup 24 hours before the deadline? One day this is going to be a funny story.
Music for working on a paper that snuck right up on you
Music for working on a presentation that you are very scared to give
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So where are all the queer ecologists? Gay lunch at ESA
Every year at ESA, there’s a GLBT brown bag lunch. It’s a great place to to meet some cool people and to talk about career issues related to being queer. The two times I’ve attended, about 20 other people showed up. Most queer ecologists don’t go to the brown bag. Maybe they’re busy, maybe they’re […]
Math is hard sometimes
An excised snippet of my conversation with Colin Kremer in which I expertly employ hyperbole in the description of a math course and Colin gets nostalgic about math homework. Math Freakout [mp3, ~1 minute]
ESA Interviews – Colin Kremer
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. I met Colin Kremer several years ago at a research station in the middle of nowhere. It was a pretty idyllic […]