My primary motivations for blogging now is that I have ideas I want to convey outside of scientific manuscripts, and I am interested in doing more writing that is not for papers and grant proposals. I have also reached a point in my career where I have both opinions that I want to express and I feel empowered to express those opinions (i.e., I have tenure, or at least what passes for tenure in Florida).
I was also working on a postdoc and looking for a permanent job during the heyday of academic blogs (2012-2015). Since then, I have always enjoyed reading blogs like Small Pond Science/Science for Everyone, Dynamic Ecology, and Scientist Sees Squirrel (and Eco Evo Eco and Sociobiology and many more). It seemed like Twitter had killed off blogs, but post-Twitter meltdown, blogs (or newsletters, which seem to be the same thing) are making a comeback.
I will be posting at least once a week and I plan to post about research in our field (ecology, evolution, behavior, physiology), science and society, and my experience finding jobs and working as professors in public universities. While part of this is just the exercise of writing, I also hope that what we post is engaging and useful to those who read the blog. I can’t and won’t claim that anything we say will be completely novel, but I hope my perspective is at least interesting for a few people.
Finally, I call this blog the Itinerant Naturalist, because I love to travel and I have moved a lot for my career, and I aspire to be a good naturalist.
I was also working on a postdoc and looking for a permanent job during the heyday of academic blogs (2012-2015). Since then, I have always enjoyed reading blogs like Small Pond Science/Science for Everyone, Dynamic Ecology, and Scientist Sees Squirrel (and Eco Evo Eco and Sociobiology and many more). It seemed like Twitter had killed off blogs, but post-Twitter meltdown, blogs (or newsletters, which seem to be the same thing) are making a comeback.
I will be posting at least once a week and I plan to post about research in our field (ecology, evolution, behavior, physiology), science and society, and my experience finding jobs and working as professors in public universities. While part of this is just the exercise of writing, I also hope that what we post is engaging and useful to those who read the blog. I can’t and won’t claim that anything we say will be completely novel, but I hope my perspective is at least interesting for a few people.
Finally, I call this blog the Itinerant Naturalist, because I love to travel and I have moved a lot for my career, and I aspire to be a good naturalist.
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