bring your fandom to work day

[sciatrix]

Yeah, that's it. Bring me a character, and if I know them I'll tell you what kind of biologist I think they are. Surprise me!

Alternatively: if you have a job and you want to play the same game, comment with your job and ask people to prompt you characters.

Comments

[sciatrix]

I feel like Terry studies something to do with social behavior in mammals, and I'm pretty sure it's involved in parenting or attachment. Not parental investment, but I think Terry gets curious about how and why social connections form.

Alternatively, Terry is the best goddamn lab manager I've ever seen, which is pretty much the role he plays for Holt anyway.

EDIT because I forgot Jake!

Jake is an integrative biologist of the sort that works with me--he can't make up his mind what the hell he wants to study, he gets very excited about a whole number of things, and he periodically bounces off on great ideas and has to be wrangled back to actually finishing his first ones.

which is to say, I have a hard time disentangling Jake-the-person from Jake-the-textbook-case-of-adult-ADHD, and I know an awful lot of Jakes in my department, too. Ha!

[opensummer]

ADHD!Jake is very important to me and I fully accept your reasoning there.

I love the idea of Terry as somebody who studies parenting!