I’ve been trying to write on this blog for a long time, searching for the right words to position myself within the system. Trying to avoid ill-advised remarks regarding the persona I wish to project online. It’s exhausting; I end up writing nothing because everything has hues, and the system doesn’t like hues. I am as complex as a sun-loving clover, or as simple as the vision of the snapping shrimp. You can decide which it is. But my life and the things I love shouldn’t have to be decided by what someone might think of me regarding a potential job. Strategy, I honestly don’t like the word, and dislike manipulative strategy. My strategy is to present myself as transparently as possible, with all the hues, mistakes, and successes that come with being human. This human being changes just as a hermit crab changes shells, always growing, always learning.
Here is a small and incomplete list of the things that I like in biological science, in no particular order:
- Evolution
- Turtles
- Ecology
- Conservation
- Birds
- Song
- Vertebrates
- Molecular biology
- Virus
- Bacteria
- Infectious diseases
- Animals
- Lichens
- Fungi
- Sensory biology
- Immunology