smithsonian Archive
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Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 5
Posted on October 8, 2017 | No CommentsBlog 5: The Taxonomist’s Assistants So far in these posts I have practically maintained a fiction that the entirety of research is done by curators […] -
Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 4
Posted on September 12, 2017 | No CommentsBlog 4: The Taxonomist’s Psyche You might wonder, with fair justification, just what sort of madness drives someone into systematics, let alone molluscan systematics. After […] -
Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 3
Posted on August 24, 2017 | No CommentsBlog 3: The Taxonomist’s Tales Not every second of the work day is spent at work; indeed there are often stretches of time where there […] -
Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 2
Posted on August 17, 2017 | No CommentsBlog 2: The Taxonomist’s Work When people imagine science, they imagine how it is in the movies. Men in white lab coats, peering into the […] -
Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 1
Posted on August 9, 2017 | No CommentsBlog 1: The Taxonomist’s Office To an outsider, the most shocking thing about a scientist’s office is its poverty. In nearly every other field that […]