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With six years of tedious phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish stares longingly from his office window at the birds outside and wonders: why did I bother? He pursues exotic lizards and feral cats across the British countryside, occasionally prizes the skeletal jaws from hedgehog corpses, and aims to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He remains desperately in quest of an academic job that'll last more than a month, and - with a background in TV research, e-learning development, academic editing, popular writing, teaching, landscape gardening, parenting and the wonderful world of retail - he still holds out hope of becoming a dedicated academic. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.
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Ok, signing off for a while now. Among other things, the above will get discussed when I get back: the image on the right (from here) might look somewhat, err, 'inspired' if you're familiar with the original produced by...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 6:27 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Welcome to the third and final part of my write-up of the CEE functional anatomy meeting: for part I go here, and for part II here. Here's where we wrap things up, but let's get through the last of...
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Posted on April 30, 2008 5:14 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More recollections from the CEE Functional Anatomy meeting: part I is here. We looked in the previous article at Robin Crompton's overview of primate locomotor ecology and evolution, Renate Weller's overview of new technologies, John Hutchinson's work on dinosaur...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 4:57 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
At a vertebrate palaeontology workshop held in Maastricht in 1998, some colleagues and I sat in a bar, lamenting the fact that nobody cared about anatomy any more, and that funding bodies and academia in general were only interested...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 7:01 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday I attended the Centre for Evolution and Ecology workshop 'Modern Approaches to Functional Anatomy', held at the Natural History Museum (and organised by the Royal Veterinary College's John Hutchinson). Whoah: what a meeting......
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Posted on April 24, 2008 9:27 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I would appreciate it most if you walked up to me and shouted 'Amphisbaenians rule!'.
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Posted on April 2, 2008 8:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've mentioned on and off lately that Tet Zoo the book is now go. The manuscript is complete, and right now (when not working on other things) I'm dealing with the editorial tidying-up. The book won't, I'm sorry to...
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Posted on March 29, 2008 2:03 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dr David Hone is well known for many scientific achievements. For the description of the new rhynchosaur Fodonyx (Hone & Benton 2007a). For his papers on Cope's rule and macroevolutionary trends in archosaurs (Hone & Benton 2005, Hone et...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 11:24 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And I just noticed that I managed to capture an orb in the photo too - well hey, must be because of those ghost videos I watched on youtube last night. Spooo-oo-oooo-ky!
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Posted on March 15, 2008 6:23 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll be saying it again: one of the best ways to invigorate your enthusiasm about a subject is to attend a conference on it, and to spend at least a couple of...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 7:03 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
