What was on my mind today: the limitations of not being in academia. I was thinking back on my Grinnell journals over the years. When I was young, and especially when I was still a student, the species accounts could be nearly half the volume. Over the years, the number of species accounts dwindled …

Can we do worthwhile science outside academia?

AdamWargon September 20, 2025, 4:35am 6

The vagabond exclaimed

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