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Petridish, NSF and Quail

Petridish, NSF and Quail

As an insect eater the Quail is worth its weight in gold We are in the middle of a funding crisis in the sciences.  Word of mouth among academics is that projects such as The Quail Diaries, involving the study of the evolution of animal behavior using field and molecular biological techniques on nonmodel and challenging bird species, has about as much chance of being funded federally as a snowball in hell. the world will … Continue reading