Three weeks ago, my lovely fiancé defended her dissertation in Norway. The next day, we flew to the states for a postdoc in New Mexico
James Erdmann
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🇺🇸 currently zookeeping and researching natural history collections in Norway 🇳🇴 Herpetologist, naturalist, freegan, gamer, music aficionado. Equity, Ethology, Evolution, EDM
Sometimes you just have to pause and appreciate the unhinged chaos that is your family.
The problem with Norway is not that it’s cold, it’s that I doesn’t stay cold - here’s about an inch of ice on top of several inches of snow
Here are some stunning flowers of a ball cactus/Estrella de la tarde (Escobaria vivipara) from Pike National Forest in Colorado this summer.
The slow death of a museum.
The two photos show job listings for the Collections Manager at Angelo State University Natural History Museum. One I interviewed for in 2017, the other was recently posted. The one from this year has a *lower pay* than the one from 6 years ago, during which inflation has increased by 25%.
For this job to be the same low paying specialist job, the salary should be 44-50k. This is not a good sign for the collection, nor the field of collections management in general.
This is one of 4 snake species in Norway - and it’s not even a snake! This is a legless lizard, called a Slow Worm (Stålorm in Norwegian), scientific name Anguis fragilis. A close relative to the glass lizards we have in the US.