
{"id":2511,"date":"2019-05-06T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/moving-to-a-new-state-to-do-some-new-science\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:35:22","slug":"moving-to-a-new-state-to-do-some-new-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/moving-to-a-new-state-to-do-some-new-science","title":{"rendered":"Moving to a new state to do some new science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The early stages of a scientific career are designed to be unstable, sling-shotting you from place to place as you acquire new skills. I bucked this paradigm somewhat in the first years after finishing my PhD, teaching, and working on local projects in order to stay in the Bay Area; but the lure of learning from a cool new lab (and having health insurance) proved irresistible. At the end of August this year, I moved out to Minneapolis to start a postdoc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I organized the samples from my PhD, to be stored in the museum in case anyone else ever has a scientific question that can be solved with junco blood.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228084%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%201.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I filled my car with my pets, and whatever belongings I could squeeze in around the pets, and drove to Minneapolis.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sigma the Madagascar giant day gecko looking out the window at Wyoming\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228085%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Sigma%20the%20Madagascar%20giant%20day%20gecko%20looking%20out%20the%20window%20at%20Wyoming%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Sigma%20the%20Madagascar%20giant%20day%20gecko%20looking%20out%20the%20window%20at%20Wyoming%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%202.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Sigma the Madagascar giant day gecko looking out the window at Wyoming\" \/><br \/><em><strong>Sigma the Madagascar giant day gecko looking out the window at Wyoming<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">My new lab, at the University of Minnesota, studies communication in frogs. Working here allows me to continue to ask questions about why animals do what they do, but it also gives me experience in topics I\u2019ve barely touched before: frogs, the neurology of sound perception, the logistics of running animal experiments in the lab (Don\u2019t worry, these are nice experiments: we play sound at the female frogs and they hop towards the sound they like best.).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The frogs are charismatic and fun to work with. If you try to hold them securely, in a fist, they crawl out and hop away; but if you let them rest on top of your hand, they sit demurely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228086%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%203.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Their skin is soft and comes in different colors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228087%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%204.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">They have big golden eyes and blob-tipped fingers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228088%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%205.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">They \u2013 Okay, look, they\u2019re\u00a0<i>not birds<\/i>. I\u2019ve tried very hard to make them into birds, and it just doesn\u2019t fly, both metaphorically and literally. So I\u2019ve been sneaking back to California to band birds when I can, and watching the birds in Minneapolis, and nursing window-struck birds back to health, and stashing dead birds in my freezer (I\u2019m going to teach my colleagues how to prepare them as museum specimens).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A lovely Nashville Warbler who collided with a window downtown, who I warmed up and kept safe until he could fly off again\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228089%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22A%20lovely%20Nashville%20Warbler%20who%20collided%20with%20a%20window%20downtown,%20who%20I%20warmed%20up%20and%20kept%20safe%20until%20he%20could%20fly%20off%20again%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22A%20lovely%20Nashville%20Warbler%20who%20collided%20with%20a%20window%20downtown,%20who%20I%20warmed%20up%20and%20kept%20safe%20until%20he%20could%20fly%20off%20again%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%206.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"A lovely Nashville Warbler who collided with a window downtown, who I warmed up and kept safe until he could fly off again\" \/><br \/><em><strong>A lovely Nashville Warbler who collided with a window downtown, who I warmed up and kept safe until he could fly off again<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But the fact that I love birds doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t want to learn how to ask scientific questions about other species. I\u2019ve worked (a tiny bit) with mammals, and I hope someday to be the kind of Renaissance scientist who can point to projects on reptiles, insects, shrimp, worms\u2026 the diversity of the natural world is astounding, and I\u2019m not passing up an opportunity to understand it better.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Even if it means I\u2019m missing the birds, just a bit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I think I\u2019ve mentioned before here that, in science, projects never go away. My head is full of frogs right now, but I\u2019m still working on getting the last chunk of my junco research published, and finishing up that mammal project, and building up a secret bird-banding-based project. This blog will still be full of birds; there just might be some frogs hopping along, too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Male calling to attract a female. I dropped my phone in the pond \u2013 twice \u2013 and filled my waders with pond water in the course of achieving this photo\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228090%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Male%20calling%20to%20attract%20a%20female.%20I%20dropped%20my%20phone%20in%20the%20pond%20%E2%80%93%20twice%20%E2%80%93%20and%20filled%20my%20waders%20with%20pond%20water%20in%20the%20course%20of%20achieving%20this%20photo%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Male%20calling%20to%20attract%20a%20female.%20I%20dropped%20my%20phone%20in%20the%20pond%20%E2%80%93%20twice%20%E2%80%93%20and%20filled%20my%20waders%20with%20pond%20water%20in%20the%20course%20of%20achieving%20this%20photo%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/New%20science%207.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Male calling to attract a female. I dropped my phone in the pond \u2013 twice \u2013 and filled my waders with pond water in the course of achieving this photo\" \/><br \/><em><strong>Male calling to attract a female. I dropped my phone in the pond \u2013 twice \u2013 and filled my waders with pond water in the course of achieving this photo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Dr. Katie LaBarbera (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeatheredKatie\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@FeatheredKatie<\/i><\/a><i>) is a Grand Challenges in Biology Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Minnesota &#8211; Twin Cities. This story was published on December 20, 2018, on Dr. LaBarbera\u2019s blog, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/toughlittlebirds.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>Tough Little Birds<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/toughlittlebirds.com\/2018\/12\/20\/new-state-new-science-and-some-old-science-too\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>) and has been republished here with her permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early stages of a scientific career are designed to be unstable, sling-shotting you from place to place as you acquire new skills. 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