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 his copies of The Books. Tomorrow I go to Göttingen for the Hybridization in Primates conference, where I will talk on the impact of lateral heredity on the species concept. Thence to Oxford. More later. Administrative
Administrative On blogging while tenure tracking 20 Jul 2008 John Hawks has an excellent essay up (I don’t know how correct it is, never having been on a tenure track) on the merits and problems of being an academic blogger. Do read it. Read More
Administrative A meaningless numerical coincidence, w00t! 9 May 2008 Sometime over tonight, this blog will pass the half a million visits mark. Say it out loud with me: half…a…million! Now I know this is because the six regular readers routinely and obsessively visit me every fifteen seconds, and there are drugs being developed to cure that, but… half… a…… Read More
Administrative Nominate [me] now! 12 Nov 2007 If you really liked one of my posts in the last 12 months, please nominate it for the Open Laboratory anthology for 2007. See the little icon at the left side of the screen? Bora is taking final submissions now. Read More
Hi there, I am here in Göttingen, enjoying my day, studying biology and I am wondering how the heck I can listen to the talks without invitation. Bummer, they wont let anyone into the Hotel, I guess.
you just follow the link that the Aussie Anthropoid provided and click on registration and then follow the instructions. Simple really! Warning participation in such conferences usually is dependent on the payment of a fee!
There’s a public lecture at 6 tonight: Public lecture by Prof. Mike Arnold from the University of Georgia: “Why the web of life, and not the tree of life?” Venue: Lecture Hall, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, University Göttingen