Biology friending meme?

[sciatrix]

It occurs to me that I have an awful lot of subscribers and friends who have varying interests and expertises in biology, psychology, and all sorts of related topics and ideas. 'Related' being read broadly here--if it touches on natural or social sciences and you want to share, please do.

Therefore, I thought I'd spin up a biology friending meme. What kind of background in the subject do you have? What things do you find interesting?

Comments

[sebenikela]

I am... I do agriculture stuff?

Currently in a postdoc helping a big human-earth system model (usually used for climate impact assessment) better model agricultural technology change, which in practice is mostly data analysis and coding (and fighting with proprietary data formats and badly-designed "web portals")

Research for my PhD, which I am defending April 15 *knocks on wood*, was working with smallholder farmers in Southern Mali, and covered everything from testing new crop varieties to biomass sampling and species ID in rangelands to remote sensing image analysis to economic analysis to participatory modeling of farming system and land use change scenarios. I have Opinions about ag-related international development and associated research.

Before that, I studied agronomy for my masters, before that I was working on a small scale irrigation project for Peace Corps in Ecuador, before THAT I did my undergrad in Mechanical Engineering.

........yes, I do have ADHD, it's a mystery how nobody noticed that until I was in my 30s.

I usually have some kind of science-related something I'm semi-obsessively into but I am very low on Brain right now so... maybe in a few months?

[felinejumper]

I wrote too much about molec. biology up above and got tired, but OOOH CLIMATE STUFF. OOH opinions about international development and research and participatory modeling!