Coming soon to a web-browser near you.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Humor

Archetype, the blog

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Debuting in late November 2008.

Cast: Various ants, insects, other organisms, and Roberto as the morphologist.

Director: Roberto Keller

Genre: Action/Adventure/Thriller/Phylogeny/Ontogeny/Morphology/Taxonomy.

Synopsis: A one-man struggle to unravel ant evolution and phylogeny, his research will be forever changed when he inadvertently ventures into the realm of comparative anatomy, a mysterious land almost forgotten by twenty-first century Biology. As he tries to understand the connection between queen and worker morphology, development and evolution, he will use the blog to keep track of his almost random thoughts on the subject, while maybe learning something in the process but surely getting even more distracted from publishing his Ph.D. research.

Critic Reviews:

“Get those manuscripts ready for god’s sake” -Former dissertation advisor.

“Blogging is very nice, but publish or perish…” -Officemate.

“Don’t we have enough blogs about ants already?” -Fellow entomologist.

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4 Comments to Coming soon to a web-browser near you.

Alex
November 19, 2008

I’m looking forward to your official debut!

And no, we don’t have enough blogs about ants already. The existing ones are mostly defunct anyway.

Roberto Keller
November 20, 2008

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement Alex.

Excellent science blogs like yours are really enriching our field. I hope I will be able to contribute a little.

James C. Trager
December 9, 2008

I like having another ant blog to read! The acidopore contribution is a gem. Keep up the good work.

I do have some sympathy for your dissertation advisor’s point of view, though. It gets harder and harder to get to those things, the more time there is between you and them, and I for one look forward to reading your work.

Roberto Keller
December 10, 2008

James- I appreciate your encouragement and advice.

If anything, I think blogging is helping me to keep just the right amount of stress so I don’t slow down.

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