A Family Portrait!

A while back we Science Bloggers were asked to provide personal photographs to Seed CentCom. This is what they did with them. I'm the strikingly handsome fellow directly behind Shelley's owl. Go have a look!

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"Shelly's owl" is the portrait of Hedwig the Owl aka GrrlScientist from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted).

I was wondering why Shelley had an owl on her shoulder and not her African Grey...

...and is Jim trying to sit on Shelley's lap, or does Steinn smell kinda funny?