When is accomplishing nothing, more than just accomplishing nothing?
Good afternoon everyone! I hope everyone had a good summer! For us, school is beginning, once again FIU has become a large traffic jam. And as I was sitting in my car waiting to leave FIU, I came up with this blog idea. When is accomplishing nothing, more than just accomplishing nothing? What I am referring to applies to research with animals. Often, when you work with some mobile animal, your study organism may not be where you think it is in the environment. Causing you to spend an entire day in the Everglades searching for your target species, only to go back to your lab empty handed. These events usually precede a very fun conversation with your adviser about what exactly you were doing in the field. I found myself in this situation last week, when I spe...