Time is premium for some and understandable, we have other commitments in our lives that can be more pressing. One could do it asynchronously but they would miss out on the QA and the live workshops. They have recorded and posted the chats for each session which beyond momentary joviality does have some salient information. For me, the working through the workshop slides (which are excellent) in advance really grounds the information from the text as dry as that can be because I’m actually applying the info. I do know of at least one person who is repeating the course from last year which for how little the course costs seems reasonable if one wanted to work up to get a certificate - I’m just auditing for personal growth. There seems to be many that are doing this as part of some kind of affiliated work development or degree development. They have even set up a Discord channel.
I wish I had the location for it! Australia misses all the good stuff (the virtual hours are generally horrible too) :p
I seriously thought about joining it this year anyway as it sounds fantastic and connecting with other wasp fans would be great, but timezone and family/work made it too tricky unfortunately.
Here is a list of the instructors: Louis F. Nastasi (Penn State University) / Jessica Awad (State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart) / Davide Dal Pos (University of Central Florida) / Charles Davis (Penn State University) / Sofía Fernández Flores (Biology Institute, UNAM) / Kendrick Fowler (Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program) / Nathaniel Green (Washington State University, Pullman) / Zachary Griebenow (University of California, Davis) / Tyler T. Kelly (University of British Columbia) / Chris Alice Kratzer (Owlfly LLC) / R. Luke Kresslein (University of California, Riverside) / Abigail P. Martens (South Dakota State University) / Codey Mathis (Penn State University) / Alana McClelland (University of Adelaide) / Ben Parslow (South Australian Museum) / Tobias Salden (Zoological Research Museum Koenig) / Michael Skvarla (Penn State University) / Sloan Tomlinson / Y. Miles Zhang (USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory)
I think Miles Zhang was coming in from Scotland and Luke Kresslein is in London currently (both along with Louis Nastasi are iNat members)
Note two instructors from Oz, one from New Zealand.
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