Hello All,
I recently got the most amazing news, and totally unexpected, but the shortest paper I've yet written, and one that promises to be quite controversial, was accepted for publication in my favorite peer-reviewed journal! Whooo! I am so surprised because I wrote it last Christmas on a whim, and the first journal I submitted it to, a very respected German journal for evolutionary...
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I recently got the most amazing news, and totally unexpected, but the shortest paper I've yet written, and one that promises to be quite controversial, was accepted for publication in my favorite peer-reviewed journal! Whooo! I am so surprised because I wrote it last Christmas on a whim, and the first journal I submitted it to, a very respected German journal for evolutionary...
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Well I can't post the whole paper on eusocial humans and other vertebrates up as it's under review right now, but I can... post the abstract to get all of you readers hot and bothered or wanting to bite my arm or something for being such a tease. The paper is under peer-review for a German sociobiology journal called "Naturwissenschaften":
Abstract: Foster and Ratnieks (2005)...
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lelaina:
awesome. thanks for the answers 
i may look at reading the book. the movie seemed to skip along too quickly.
i may look at reading the book. the movie seemed to skip along too quickly.
jaie:
hahah..you always show me the best love on my sets..thank you x's a million! xoxox
Alright: nother phat idea. I just wrote a brief article, building on the work of a couple of other people, that humans and about 8 other species should all be considered eusocial. I'm submitting it to Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology I think. It's really a cool little article. I can't post it though because I have to wait till it's officiallly submitted. My other article...
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rin:
Also, will you send me a link or something to your article when you can post it? It sounds super interesting and I'd love to read it.
rin:
I think I was geek before it was chic, ie: grade 7, haha.
Paper #2i:
This one is about the evolution of mutualism in snakes (specifically a special kind of mutualism called "Pseudo-Reciprocity"). PR and Reciprocal Altruism really changed the way I view our social reality. I didn't think 3 years ago when I started reading & thinking about all this kind of stuff that I'd ever end up doing a Master's on it! Anyhow, this paper is...
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This one is about the evolution of mutualism in snakes (specifically a special kind of mutualism called "Pseudo-Reciprocity"). PR and Reciprocal Altruism really changed the way I view our social reality. I didn't think 3 years ago when I started reading & thinking about all this kind of stuff that I'd ever end up doing a Master's on it! Anyhow, this paper is...
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bow:
Alot of hard work went into this!
Alot of hard work went into this!
What a fucking ridiculous year it turned out to be... Over the summer I had three bizarre incidents happen a) because of my bone condition several of my teeth became super weak for no good reason and I had to pay $2000 to have them removed. My mother is insane however and my thesis advisor paid instead! If she wasn't such an awesome thesis advisor/surrogate...
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crazyben:
Oh whoops I forgot about John Endler's "Natural Selection in the Wild" (revised edition), this is actually not the exact version I submitted it appears. Really I think it's just that last paragraph citation but oh well. I'm always questing for perfection...
"It is said that the young Alcibiades, visiting a grammar school around 430 B.C., asked the teacher for a volume of Homer and, hearing there was none, struck the hapless teacher with his walking stick and left."--
That is so fucking awesome! You remember the days when intellect meant something, that is, the possession of an inquiring mind was a great thing in and of...
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That is so fucking awesome! You remember the days when intellect meant something, that is, the possession of an inquiring mind was a great thing in and of...
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realistic67:
I think it still means something....I'm quite certain that more people revere the Dali Lama then say, Glen Beck.
I just think that we are all more distracted then people even 60 years ago. And we have everything in abundance to point of being confused as to what we really want.
Remember when you were out camping and all the food you had was just the food in the campsite that day ( far away from convenience stores and supermarkets ) Do, you remember how good at the end of the evening of being out in the wilderness, how good that food tasted.
That's the best understanding I know of what it must have been like in the past.
I just think that we are all more distracted then people even 60 years ago. And we have everything in abundance to point of being confused as to what we really want.
Remember when you were out camping and all the food you had was just the food in the campsite that day ( far away from convenience stores and supermarkets ) Do, you remember how good at the end of the evening of being out in the wilderness, how good that food tasted.
That's the best understanding I know of what it must have been like in the past.
crazyben:
Indeed. Thanks for stopping by sir. The graduate student thing has really been sucking up lots and lots of of my time, though that's fine by me most of the time
akane:
cool. i love philosophy of science too, when i studied in france i went to a seminary about expertice in politics i love it. i made a monographie about magic as a savoir.... a connaissance not recognized by west ...
excuse my bad english...
and emma goldman is nice cause she can theorise her situation in life. i think she wasnt a fanatic, a dogmatist thats what i like about her
excuse my bad english...
and emma goldman is nice cause she can theorise her situation in life. i think she wasnt a fanatic, a dogmatist thats what i like about her
For some reason I was thinking, just now, after editing yet another paper to submit to a biology journal (number 3 for the summer so far), of the poem "Hamlet" by Boris Pasternak. That poem astounded me when I first read it about 7 years ago. I remember racing through all the Russian poetry translations in the UCF library to see if any other volumes...
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Got my first tattoo today! Wooo! Very happy with it, a brown bulldog ant. Myrmecia desortorum. It's sweet, I will post pictures soon...
jaylin:
I gotta see photos! 
Hey Hey! It's summer time! time for Independent Studies so I still get money and get to hang out at home and work on my research articles! Wooo! Now if the wire transfer of my student funds would hurry up and get to my bank account so I can buy some food instead of eating all my ex-roommate's food...
Ahh, I finished revising a paper...
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Hey!, whoever may read this... Here is the paper I wrote for GEO 6116, Perspectives on Environmental Thought. I think it makes for a good read, hopefully my prof. will too. Aaah, damn my eyes are burning...
Behavioral Ecology and the De-Animalization of Nature
Introduction: the Problem of De-animalization
Beginning in the early 1960s, the work of behavioral ecologists (behavioral ecology is the study of...
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Behavioral Ecology and the De-Animalization of Nature
Introduction: the Problem of De-animalization
Beginning in the early 1960s, the work of behavioral ecologists (behavioral ecology is the study of...
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lillithvain:
I finally got my new computer, so I'm trying to catch up with all my friends on my list. Just seeing what you've been up too, wondering how you are, that kind of thing.
I hope you are doing well
I hope you are doing well
As a new "graduate teaching assistant" at an institution... for reading biology books and listening to loud classical music in my office... I mean education, I found this story rather amusing.
Copyright by Kerry Soper
Excerpt from the secret journal of Prof. Maxwell T. Detritum, now a teaching assistant at the Universal University)
February 18, 2085
The mid-21st century was a dark time in higher...
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Copyright by Kerry Soper
Excerpt from the secret journal of Prof. Maxwell T. Detritum, now a teaching assistant at the Universal University)
February 18, 2085
The mid-21st century was a dark time in higher...
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Is your paper in press or out yet? I'd love to read it, so you should give me a link for sure. One of my big surprises this year has been how much I've gotten into genetics (the evolutionary slant especially). I have a rudimentary knowledge, but it's very interesting for sure.
And a postmodern poet? Do you have anything published in that regard? I wrote a very metafictional postmodern novel last year, but - as a scientist - have very little idea how to pursue publishing. Nor have I much time.
p.p.s. I took a class a philosophy of Caribbean mentality class focusing on Rastafarianism