Insect diversity @ McGill
Stories about our collection of three million unique little volumes of biodiversity, the people who build and use it, and the research we do. And the odd rumination upon the nature of science and scientists.
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Tag Archives: students
A sense of place
(this is reposted from our Desert Ecology field course blog at desertecology.wordpress.com) You have to make a basic decision on every road trip: spend a little time in lots of places, or spend more time in fewer places. Like any … Continue reading
The best story ever
The winter term is off and running and I started teaching yesterday. I teach my first-year course in Evolution and Phylogeny every winter. And I love teaching this course. By the end of most of my lectures, when my throat … Continue reading
Looking back and looking forward
It was another busy year in the Lyman lab. As in any active lab, students come and go every year. Chris Borkent defended his Ph.D. on the systematics of some mycetophilid fungus gnats this year, and is off in Sacramento, … Continue reading
Rumours of our demise: taxonomy redux
I’m surprised. OK, lots of things surprise me, but this week I’m particularly surprised at the response to my post last week about why taxonomy matters. That post was more “Liked”, shared, tweeted and viewed, by a huge margin, than … Continue reading
Conferences are expensive and time-consuming . . .
I’ve spent most of the past two weeks waiting in airports in a total of five cities, breathing dry and recycled hotel air, eating unpredictable restaurant food, sitting in dark rooms listening to people talk, drinking overpriced coffee, navigating slippery … Continue reading
Another year – autumn in the lab
As always, fall is a busy time in the museum. We have a few personnel changes (fairly standard for this time of year), a pile of upcoming conference talks, and some big ongoing research projects. Amélie Grégoire Taillefer, who has … Continue reading
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Tagged Coleoptera, conferences, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Northern Biodiversity Program, students
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Another doctor in the house
It’s always a big day in the lab when a grad student finishes their project, particularly when the student is a Ph.D. candidate because the oral defense of the thesis provides a very obvious punctuation mark on the entire program. … Continue reading
