I’ll add my two cents. The scarcity of positions is absolutely nothing new.
In the 1980’s it was not unusual for there to be 300-400 applicants or more for
positions in any kind of organismal biology. It was during that decade that
doing a post-doc in ecology became the norm as a holding plac
"many of us higher quality scientists" I don't often post here but that is
about as arrogant a statement as I have read. It is that kind of thinking that
has made me distance myself from much of the ESA community. I have authored or
co-authored 30 papers and would never dream of casting mysel
Here's the list of notable species (weird, big, small, edible, parasitic etc) I
developed for my botany course a few years ago. I gave only the genus and
species and let the students figure out what they were.
Steve
Acacia cornigera
Adenanthera pavonina
Adansonia digitata
Aldrovanda vesicu
Sean,
Interesting that you mention blogging on the topic. I posted on my blog
about Governor Palin earlier this evening and received a most
interesting comment regarding my being a "socialist scientist" as I
supported government funded basic research that did not directly effect
national sec
