A friend gets a trilobite named after him 28 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 … Wilkins turns green with envy. There’s a special sort of immortality for those who work in paleontology which clearly outweighs the total lack of jobs and remuneration: having a species named after you. My friend and accredited geologist and paleontologist has now had a trilobite named after him. Ladies and gentlemen, below the fold, Chris Nedin’s tribble, Megapharanaspis nedini! Pretty little thing, isn’t it? Of course, nobody would ever name a fossil after a philosopher, would they? You need to find something with no definite shape, for a start. [Hint!] Administrative General Science
Ecology and Biodiversity Genetic engineering and organic farming 14 Aug 2008 The heir apparent to some minor European royal family has again demonstrated his lack of knowledge and trust in scientific matters. The Prince, who has previously said that he talks to plants and consults gurus, apparently failed to talk to any actual, you know, scientists who might clear up a… Read More
Education Tired debates 17 Apr 2010 There’s a whole bunch of arguments that are becoming very tiring, and in which I think we have made no apparent progress for far too long, such as the fooraw between Massimo Pigliucci and PZ Merkel, the German chancellor. I propose, therefore, to say nothing about them after this post… Read More
Administrative Schadenfreude, the taste of the real thing generation 7 Jul 2010 OK, I shouldn’t be enjoying this. Scienceblogs, my former mothership, has accepted an as-yet unknown quantity of a nutrition blog funded and run by… PepsiCo. Now, I don’t drink carbonated sugar drinks much, and when I do they aren’t multinational corporation products, but that has less to do with the… Read More
Nedin makes the big time, eh? Good on ‘im! About 15 years ago, he and Andrew Macrae helped me (over the net!) to figure out the identity of a trilobite fossil I had received, that was mislabelled.
I thought you were your own one-man (one-ape?) subspecies Gorilla Australini Albini Wilkini or GAAW for short as in: “gaaw blimy, it’s a white Aussie ape!”
Awwww…Ill put you on my list of people who want me to name stuff after them, if I ever find anything…If I ever get a phd scholarship and get to pretend Im a serious academic…