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Big news, and end of LJ
So, I figured I'd close out LJ with some big news: I got a tenure-track faculty position! I'll be a large research university, affiliated with a biomimicry group, working on cool critters and making robots of those cool critters, along with my own PhD students ( Read more... ) -
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Well, time for my almost 18-monthly update. I've noticed LJ getting a lot sparser these days - lots of folks and communities have vanished, and the remainder don't update nearly as often ( Read more... ) -
Update plus more media stuff
Well, it's been about 5 months since the whole PE thing, and by and large it's been pretty good, aside from the rat poison pills ( Read more... ) -
Snakes and lungs
So, a lot's happened since my last update, but the big news consists of two things ( Read more... ) -
Woot, publication and attention!
So, after much analysis, revision etc., I've finally got my first frog paper out in Biology Letters, abstract here, which is fantastic.
Also, for some unknown reason, this got a lot more media attention than my prior papers on snakes, not that I'm complaining. Brown issued a press release, which also made it to the university's front page, and ( Read more... ) -
Siren skeleton
Years and years ago, I had a pet Greater Siren, an eel-like aquatic salamander with a long body, no hindlimbs, tiny forelimbs, gills and a huge appetite. It was awesome, but then the filter broke while I was literally on the other side of the planet for 3 weeks. After an extended stay in my freezer and a quick trip through the beetle colony, I ( Read more... ) -
The week of suck.
I should have known better than to post my last entry, because the last week was just terrible (at least as far as work ( Read more... ) -
Science-update
Things have been going surprisingly well, science-wise, so I figured I should do an update ( Read more... )
