June 2015
Summer in the city
The blog is going to take a well earned summer holiday and will start back again in September when hopefully we'll have a slew of papers and conferences to report on! See you all soon. Author Adam Kane, kanead[at]tcd.ie Photo credit http://musiccourt.files.wordpress.com
We have no need for that hypothesis
Scientists as a demographic group tend to be atheists. One survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences found “…near universal rejection of the transcendent…” As scientists are concerned with the study of the natural world they are liable to eschew any supernaturalistic explanations, although there are notable exceptions. Historically science and religion have frequently crossed swords but […]
Photo competition Result
Thanks to everyone who entered the competition. This time around our panel of judges deemed Deirdre McClean's entry to be the worthy winner. Her picture of a Rufous motmot adorns this very blog so congratulations to her. Author EcoEvoblog Photo credit Deirdre McClean
There is no magic formula...(sorry!)
I recently attended a mentoring event that left me faintly frustrated and I was finding it hard to put into words exactly why. Eventually it came to me - at these events people always want the answer to the same question: what is the magic formula for succeeding* in academia? The problem is that there […]
Shall we kill all our bees?
“Kill all the bees!!”, the modest proposal of Prof. Paul Sutton from University of South Australia is a provocative attempt to convince economic rationalists to finally start counting what really counts. If all the bees were to go extinct we will have to replace them by, for example, hand-pollinating our crops. That means employment, economic […]
Outside hours - working for free and making it pay
Do voluntary work and outreach activities really make much of a difference in an environmental career? Yes, in general, but not for the reasons you might expect. Picture this: you have finally found an amazing career path that you really want to follow. It is engaging and challenging and you will make a positive contribution […]