Thank you Ian and Dr. Cruzan for speaking up about these posts yet again. I
am personally opposed to having these posts on Ecolog as well.
Assuming they won't stop, *I propose a new practice* of adding an obvious
tag in the subject line. E.g., "[ECOLOG-L] *(Fee program)* Research
Assistantship
I am opposed to this type of advertisement. It is a commercial activity
and not one that is likely to provide a high quality education or
research experience. These organizations are more like tour experiences
and they should not be allowed to post on this list.
Mitch Cruzan
On 1/8/2019
Advertising a program which costs $2700 as a "Research Assistantship"
strikes me as disingenuous. As I've said on this list before, I'm not
absolutely opposed to pay-to-participate programs being posted on ECOLOG, I
just think there needs to be more truth in advertising. The definition of
Overview: Tamarins are notoriously difficult to track and identify in the wild,
because of their diminutive size and morphological homogeneity. In this
program, we monitor a population of ~14 tamarin groups, individually
identifiable and radio-collared, to study their space use and means of
