Twelve Dinners Delivered (to the lab)
Eleven Papers Prepping
Ten Bugs-a-Bugging
Nine Ladies Dancing (but not with you)
Eight Bunsens-a-Burnin’
Seven Dance Solos
Six Words a Minute
Fiiive Grants Rejected
Four Calling Mates (“I’m busy“)
Three Absent Supervisors
Two Days off a Year (maybe)
And a h-index of nooought.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Jon began university life as a geologist, followed by a treacherous leap into the life sciences. He spent several years at Imperial College London, investigating the extinction and biodiversity patterns of Mesozoic tetrapods – anything with four legs or flippers – to discover whether or not there is evidence for a ‘hidden’ mass extinction 145 million years ago. Alongside this, Jon researched the origins and evolution of ‘dwarf’ crocodiles called atoposaurids. Prior to this, there was a brief interlude were Jon was immersed in the world of science policy and communication, which greatly shaped his views on the broader role that science can play, and in particular, the current ‘open’ debate. Jon tragically
passed away in 2020.
