Summer was slow coming but is going fast, we’re already more than half-way through! I’ve been spending it out and about doing lots of fieldwork and attending lots of courses. Most of my courses have been plant-based (or ...
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Dragons, damsels and masters
Don't worry, I haven't spent the month playing dungeons and dragons, I just couldn't come up with a better title for this post. July has flown by but I'm afraid I don't have much to report back on in terms of my traineeship. ...
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The Bigger Picture
Over the past couple of months, I’ve attended two thought provoking conferences. While I love my traineeship it’s easy to get bogged down in my daily tasks, working through samples and learning to identify my specialist group ...
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Branching Out
In June I decided to expand my horizons a little and plants seemed like the obvious first step in my voyage out of the water: I had been based in a museum botany department for five months at this point and was beginning to ...
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Not Just Moths…
I’ve had a busy time over the last couple of months, and not a lot of time spent in the office- so I for one am appreciating all the dry sunny weather!
At the start of May I attended a recording workshop run by my ...
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