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). Administrative Natural Classification AdministrativeNatural Classification
Administrative Well, there goes my academic career 25 Sep 2007 Over the past three years or so I have been trying to get an academic career going, at the tender age of (then) 49 (now 51). I have applied for a number of positions while working as a postdoc at the University of Queensland, and tried now twice to get… Read More
Administrative Honey, I accidentally redesigned the blog! 3 Aug 201122 Jun 2018 Oh well. I was playing with WordPress design templates and I clicked the wrong button. Now I have this rather clean design, but I can’t fix the banner because Illustrator CS2 no longer runs on OS X Lion. When I get a new copy I’ll rework it to suit the… Read More
Administrative Travel Diary 3 6 Oct 2009 Here I am in Erlangen, after two whirlwind days with Thony Christie, seeing Albert Speer’s version of the Coliseum, lots of Nurnberg and Erlangen sites, and some originals of Conrad Gesner’s never-completed Historia Plantarum. That man was a damned good artist. I owe Thony some serious thanks. But I signed… Read More