Tag Archives: Administrative
Travel funds
I have, as readers know, no actual position right now. This also means that I lack all travel funds, but there are several events in America in June, ISHPSSB and the 2011 Evolution Meetings in Oklahoma, that I would love … Continue reading
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I get email
Only one of the very many things I share with PZ Myers (apart from the success, the job, the handsomeness, the youth, and the Trophy Wife™) is that occasionally I get emails from crackpots. When you get an email whose … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Humor, Religion
Admin: May be off line for a week
So I am trying to transfer my blog and domain name to a new host, and am about to be without internet for a week, as I move into a new flat. These two facts may interfere with a good … Continue reading
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Too big for my boots
I can no longer use the online WordPress export function to back my blog up – I have to ask WordPress to do it. This is because the size of the blog and comments and graphics, etc. has exceeded their … Continue reading
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My talk online
The Australian Broadcasting Commission, or ABC, radio show on science, Ockham’s Razor (named after some philosophy guy), has finally played my talk on species concept history and the death of essentialist stories. You can go listen to it here. The … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, History, Species concept
Update on a pilgrim’s progress
Okay, well it’s more like the John Wayne sense of “pilgrim” than John Bunyan, but here I am, having gotten out of Dodge Brisbane just as the latest natural disaster hit. “Here” being the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. Once … Continue reading
A paperback of Species: A History
My not-inconsiderable ego has expanded several sizes upon the news from University of California Press that my book Species: A History of the Idea (see at right or on the My Books page) is to become a paperback. I hope … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Book, History, Species and systematics, Species concept
2010 roundup
It’s been a complicated year. So I have gone through my posts for what I think were the best. The philosophical ones are bolded. Below the fold. Happy new year to all. I hope your 2011 exceeds your 2010. Mine … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Links
Jen and John’s Expotition
Christmas time. The very words strike fear into the hearts of courageous men and women. Families. Cake. And most of all: travelling. So, off to Armidale NSW where I ate enough to see me through the next six months before … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Humor
The end of a dream… for now
A while back I declared that my career was over as an academic because things were going to hell. Instead, things went on to get better, and I got a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sydney. So I looked like a … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Administrative
