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Atla said over in intro thread

If you have any questions about NZ–visiting, emigrating, or avian-related–feel free to ask!

I'd like this to be a general topic discussion. Do you know people who do research on New Caledonian crows? Once I wanted to take a vacation and decided a cool basis for the trip would be to visit people who do research in New Caledonian crows. I cold emailed someone listed on the Oxford lab's website but he said they don't want to have visitors in the lab because it would be disruptive.

Later I found a website for a research group in New Zealand and saw that they allow undergrads at the school to do field work in blinds to make observations on the crows. That sounded like a group that might be willing to allow visitors so I cold emailed someone from that group to ask if I could spend time in a blind like their undergrads do and offered references.

The person who replied to that email was friendly and didn't seem averse to the idea. I didn't end up taking that vacation (actually, the field research is in New Caledonia, not around New Zealand) because I want to be able to set aside a suitable block of time to visit and travel around the general area.

By any chance are you familiar with people who do research in animal cognition over there? I'd like to visit the region one day and it would be fun to travel around to interesting spots.

I've been lucky with respect to physic visits in the past due to an ex who did research at CERN and Fermilab. So I was able to visit the detectors. and see the CDF pulled out during a maintenance cycle. pretty cool!

Hljothlegur said:

sheila said: .

I've been lucky with respect to physic visits in the past due to an ex who did research at CERN and Fermilab. So I was able to visit the detectors. and see the CDF pulled out during a maintenance cycle. pretty cool!

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Oh, we now officially hate you.

Even after losing contact with the ex, I had a friend who used to have a bbq and then invite people over to walk around the anti-proton ring. eventually security got to be annoying and the tradition didn't last.

you know what sounds cool? the argonne lab's yearly open house. I didn't know about that until recently and will try to go the next time they have one.

speaking of argonne, they need smart programmers.