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Dragonflies vs. damselflies
So, I get asked all the time “what’s the difference between dragonflies and damselflies?” Here is my response: What’s in a name? Dragonflies and damselflies both fall in the order Odonata. An “order”...
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The first female entomologist: Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) I recently visited Amsterdam, where I came across the work of a German naturalist of whom I had not previously been aware. The Rijksmuseum contains a book that dates...
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Yet another post about gender and academic conferences
This is becoming something of a cottage industry recently – it is fairly straightforward to calculate the gender ratio of presenters at academic conferences and to evaluate that ratio against some...
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PhD funding for biological research at the University of Leeds
If you are interested in doing a PhD but are struggling to find funding that fits your project or have been unsuccessful in applications to the funding schemes that are scattered around (e.g. the NERC...
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