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This is EASILY my new favourite blog. "Things I learned as a field biologist". The combo of deadpan humour + parasites is very much working for me. “If you accidentally fall & stick your hand in hookworm-infested jaguar poo, don't scratch your tick-bites.” “In your desperate, bamboo-hacking frenzy, please remember not to over-extend your backswing."
This is what’s known as becoming part of the story. Scary infectious disease reporter Maryn McKenna gets a peanut butter-borne illness, and Brian Vastag gets West Nile virus.
Stumped by bed nets, mosquitoes turn midnight snack into breakfast. This is really worrying. Great coverage by Bora Zivkovic (love the 2nd picture caption)
"It's strange to write a serious research proposal and have half of your bibliography be science fiction.” Ross Andersen on a cool project to find aliens.
