Half way between where I sit and the advance guard of Winter Storm Nemo, sits a bucket that contains a lot of formalin and two large freshwater mussels. Also on that table is two bivalve pairs, cleaned out yesterday after we hacked up the mussels inside them.

It was a messy, disorganized process that hit a snag very early on when I handed the kids ( Read more... )

The idea of the meme making the rounds these days is to use the Up-Goer 5 Text editor to describe one’s job, i.e. using the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English Language.

I am a doctor: not the kind of doctor who helps people, but the kind of doctor who knows a great deal about a kind of animal. The animals I know about lived a long time ( Read more... )

Storefront Science is a pretty unique space. Situated way uptown in Washington Heights (but conveniently close to the A and and 1 lines), it is part afterschool classroom and part creche, providing an informal, engaging learning experience for families, kids, and school groups. Based on the idea that learning is most effective when opt-in, with ( Read more... )

My thumb is sore.

Why is my thumb sore, you ask? Well, I just spent most of a working day cutting out pictures of animals that had been printed on sticky-back paper to make customized stickers.

But wait, you may additionally ask, don’t you have two graduate degrees? What are you doing cutting things out for money?

Well, I’m an educator, aren’t I? ( Read more... )

The following contains twittering:

• 10:00 ack how does one stop casting off? #
• 10:21 I'm really excited about going back to the galleries after 3 weeks! Even if i've forgotten my fleece. #
• 17:33 *collapses* 127 people in an hour. I love and hate my job at the same time. Mostly love. #
• 18:09 my trainers are leaking. I cannot afford new shoes. At all ( Read more... )

For what it's worth: I'm fine. I feel obliged to say this because I know more than a few people were worried.

I mean, right now, I'm suffering from too much free wine and from not-having-left-the-house itis, because I'm supervising a man painting balcony, but honestly, this week I've been much much better. Fine, in fact ( Read more... )

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It's been one of those few days where I have been too busy to stop and update Livejournal.

1) new bar character eeeee!
2) I have a novel result in my research. An actual. Novel. Interesting. Never before discovered. Result. Abotu dinosaurs.
3) Insects are small and fiddly and I'd rather be a vert palaeo curator than an entomology one.
4) Wanted is ( Read more... )

First, read this paragraph:

A newspaper is better than a magazine, and on the seashore is a better place than a street. At first it is better to run than to walk. Also, you may have to try several times. It takes some skill, but it's easy to learn. even young children can enjoy it. Once successful, complications are minimal. Birds seldom get too ( Read more... )

For lo, I don't have a lot else to say beyond I love curation, my supervisors, extinct reptiles, weaverandom and comics.

From ladybug218:You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then ( Read more... )