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The Evil Monkey has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from a southeastern university. After a postdoctoral nightmare of Inquisitorial proportions, he is currently working in a laboratory and teaching at a local community college. He is still not sure why he wrote this paragraph in the third person, and for that reason is beginning to doubt his sanity. How many freakin' people can fit into his head, anyway? No wait, my head. Oh crap.
Scicurious is a graduate student wrestling with a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology at a southern institution. She is a nerd, a geek, and also a dork, which takes up a lot of her free time. She sees nothing wrong with talking about herself in the third person, and wonders why Evil Monkey is so freaked out about it.
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August 28, 2008
Category: Rocket Surgery
....by releasing them from a mink farm. This is what happens when you set animals free without regard to the consequences. Now whether you think raising and killing animals for their fur is immoral or not, it takes a special...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 5:59 PM • 15 Comments •
August 21, 2008
I signed up to teach 3 courses at the community college this fall; Human Biology and 2 sections of a Basic Concepts in Biology course. The latter is "remedial" biology, designed to catch up people with little or no biology...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 7:01 PM • 10 Comments •
August 19, 2008
Category: Primatology
Toads, sex toys, it's all the same for a chimp.
Posted by Evil Monkey at 8:18 AM • 7 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: Academia
So when does trying to advance one's career become a Bad Idea? How about when you're trying to recover from a nightmare postdoc so you take a part-time lab job while you regroup, then apply to a few teaching spots...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 8:44 AM • 1 Comments •
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