It is an obvious yet remarkable fact that a fetus, near the end of pregnancy, could as easily be a newborn baby. Whether through natural bir...

I know a bit about a lot of organisms, but don't really qualify as an expert on any species. It is great fun planning experiments with p...

There is a certain irony to being to a researcher who studies mortality risk early in life, and also a soon-to-be father. Sometimes I feel I...

The Institute where I work is built on land that used to be part of huge East German ship building facility. The facility folded shortly aft...

The first time I saw one? I was out in the rowboat, only a couple of hundred feet from our dock, and had, for whatever reason, dropped an oa...

There is a principle that I want to refer to in an upcoming talk, but I can't find a name for it. Someone must have named it after thems...

The ladybugs are successfully reproducing on our mint plant. Oh frabjous day! The larvae are crawling all over the plant scarfing down aphid...

We have now interviewed two post-doc applicants. Both are extremely well qualified for their respective prospective positions. Both seem ver...

Most mornings I spritz the chocolate peppermint plant on our bedroom windowsill from a spray bottle of water. It loves to be damp. It is gro...

I'm one of those people who have trouble sitting still and working for any great period of time. I frequently find excuses to get up and...

Spring has sprung and is sprinting toward summer here in Rostock. The horse-chestnut trees that line many of the parks and roads are covered...

We've just gotten a Roomba . For those of you who don't know, this is one of those vacuum-cleaner robots. It has some obvious advant...

I have called a lot of references for post-doctoral candidates over the last weeks. I always go into it wanting the reference to tell me how...

My prediction for hiring success has improved significantly over the past few days, for reasons both rational and irrational. Rationally, I’...

The part of science I like best is the coming up with questions part. The part where I ask something someone else has never asked before (or...

The pun is my wife's, the Photoshopping my own: This, for the record, took 36 minutes, starting with a giraffe clipart.

I have an ethical situation here. I've received a fraudulent post-doctoral application. This applicant has, on his CV, listed quite a fe...

I have a bit of a stomach bug this weekend, so I am thinking about things that don't require so much concentration. A colleague had rais...

I'm a bit uncomfortable with some of these German CVs . The lebenslauf ( life run ) is the rough equivlent to a curriculu...

The question has arisen how we should define Evolutionary Demography, such that we can decide if someone's work qualifies. I have offere...