Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
Wednesday 7 October 2015
You Might Be A Marine Mammal Scientist If....
Hi All [three of you]. I’ve been a horrible slacker lately and not updated anything. Part of this has to do with the fact that I’ve been working on a fairly cool project that’s almost ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, just waiting for my advisers to get some feedback to me… Once that's ready I look forward to sharing it here. In the meantime I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a marine mammal scientists, which I guess I should classify myself as since I’ve been unsuccessful in procuring gainful employment with any other species.
Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
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