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
Administrative Interesting past few days 9 Feb 20094 Oct 2017 Well, on Thursday night I was incredulous at a lecture by Steve Jones. On Friday night I met the fascinating Richard Grant from Our Competitor Blog Network, Nature Network. On Saturday I had a lovely lunch with my new colleagues at Sydney, and then proceeded to nearly drown while skin… Read More
Administrative Talk on natural classification 23 Mar 2011 If anyone happens to be near the University of New South Wales on Friday, I’m giving a talk on natural classification. Come and heckle (or Haeckel). Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Developing dumbness 5 Aug 2008 I get a lot of Google alerts about various things, including species concepts, obviously. I have noticed a pattern: media from the so-called “developed” or “first world” almost never put much in the way of actual facts or knowledge in their reports, concerned, I guess, that it will scare 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…