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?

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[copperfyre]

Hello! Here and now following via rydra_wong's signal boost, and super down for finding fun internet biology friends!

I'm, um, unfocused at the moment, but I'm mostly an ecologist, and currently working in a bird lab. I'm really interested in species interactions, behavioural ecology, and I think maybe my heart lies with plants, and then periodically I get tempted over to the 'WTF we know so little!' side of phycology and mycology. (Common conversation I have: Someone else: 'So I hear you want to go to grad school, what do you want to research?' Me: 'I don't know! Everything is so interesting! There's so many cool questions out there! This is why I'm trying to get jobs in different fields and places to see what I like!')

I'm also eternally fascinated by cross-discplinary work; I love hearing the different perspectives people bring to things. Also the human and historical side of science; one of my best jobs was working in a herbarium and getting to find out how/why we had certain specimens and the people that were behind collecting, naming, and studying them. So, yeah, I'm kind of all over the place, interest-wise!