Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Nov 19, 2009, 3:44 pm
Here's a question for the numerous British university-based readers for this blog. I am absolutely tickled because one of my students wants to study palaeontology at university. And it's bec...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Nov 10, 2009, 2:41 pm
I learned last night that Professor Barrie Rickards, expert graptolite researcher, has died at the age of 71. It was reported this morning on PaleoNet, the palaeontology listserve. My year group aff...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Nov 4, 2009, 12:08 pm
It's finally shaping up to be wintery here. Well, wintery by Soft Southern Nancy standards anyway. A chill in the air, blustery winds and crisp mornings to dry out soggy leaves. For me, the fir...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Oct 26, 2009, 7:38 am
It's really uncool and old-fashioned to call it a "pen-drive" rather than a "USB". No one born after 1991 has ever heard of "2001: A Space Odyssey". Arsene Wenger speaks nine different languages. ...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Oct 23, 2009, 11:25 am
Well. It's been a while, hasn't it? I have just survived my first half term in what I suspect is one of the hardest, yet most rewarding professions in existence. There must be harder jobs, ...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 25, 2009, 5:40 am
This evening, from 6:30pm, come and meet the palaeo-bloggers in The Berkeley, opposite the Wills Memorial Building at Bristol University. This is an opportunity for bloggers and blog groupies to meet...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 22, 2009, 2:33 am
As I am still barely containing the panic, Paul Anderson (or Mr Julia Heathcote as he's often known at SVP) has very kindly written a final post for all you colonials on the perils of driving on B...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 21, 2009, 1:41 pm
... and good manners. In Hollywood movies anyway. In real life we can be as crass, arrogant and rude as the next nation (the next nation is France - enough said). Here's a crash course in sur...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 16, 2009, 6:45 am
George Bernard Shaw said that the US and UK are "two nations divided by a common language". Here's a brief guide to avoid embarrassment. When you say "pants" you are referring to attire for the ...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 15, 2009, 4:14 pm
Oh you Americans. You have both the best and the worst restaurants on the planet. You will find most of them in Britain. You have probably heard it said (or maybe said yourself) that the British on...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 15, 2009, 5:39 am
It has been an exhausting few weeks, and I'm only just into my first week of teaching at a Popular Further Education College. But I promised myself and some fellow palaeontologists that I would d...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Sep 5, 2009, 1:50 pm
This is a brief post to celebrate International Vulture Appreciation Day 2009. Back in March of this year, I spent 10 days in northern Spain as a driver for a UCL fieldtrip. The primary focus of the...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 26, 2009, 5:49 am
Palaeontologically correct it may not be, but I thought the use of googly eyes made this superior to the lunchbox of a few weeks ago: sc_project=2265573; sc_invisible=1; sc_partition=20; sc_security...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 24, 2009, 10:58 am
Over at Ask Doctor Vector, Matt has recounted his recent experience transporting a cow shinbone through an airport. It reminded me of an incident as I was returning home from SVP last year. I loaded...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 23, 2009, 11:33 am
As I said, yesterday I went to the Science Online London 2009 conference at the Royal Institution. Last year it was called Science Blogging, and the decision had been made to push the boundaries a bi...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 22, 2009, 1:42 am
Righty-ho, I'm off to the Science Online London conference in a few minutes (once I've finished my cup of tea). I'll see some of you there, but for the rest of you, follow me on Twitter f...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 16, 2009, 2:17 pm
Submissions are flying in for OpenLab 2009. I could submit my own posts, but I've held off for now as I'm woefully bashful and awful at self-promotion, and I've been hoping that someone w...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 15, 2009, 6:18 am
My sister-in-law posted this to my Facebook profile yesterday evening. It's from Kawaii Not, "the webcomic for cute gone bad". Which reminds me - have you hugged your gut flora today? sc_project...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 14, 2009, 3:11 pm
The Natural History Museum isn't just the South Kensington site - its bird collection, for example, is housed north of London in Tring, Hertfordshire. Many of the non-British readers might have b...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 13, 2009, 3:48 am
Today, 13th August, is a cool day for me. It's my "half-birthday", meaning I am now just six short months from the big 3-0. It is also International Left-Handers Day, where (if you choose to cel...
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 12, 2009, 2:01 pm
Paul found my lost handlens. It wasn't in Norfolk after all but in our magazine rack in the living room. sc_project=2265573; sc_invisible=1; sc_partition=20; sc_security="09de099a";
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Julia H. posted an article on The Ethical Palaeontologist - Aug 12, 2009, 5:15 am
As I have frequently ranted about on here, palaeontology is often seen as a frivolous pastime of no real benefit to the rest of science, let alone the world at large. Some people feel the same way ab...
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