The more avid readers (that’s you, mom!) may have noticed a lack of activity on the blog of late. Life has intruded. Next week I will be leaving my job at the University of Arizona and taking a new one in Illinois. This means tying up loose ends on the beetle project, saying goodbye to friends, and moving a house. Full-on blogging will resume by mid-August, I presume, once the dust has settled.
There is much I will miss about Tucson, but on the other hand I’ll be joining the Entomology Department at Champaign-Urbana, one of the world’s finest centers of insect research.
Welcome to the midwest! (I’m in Terre Haute, Indiana)
Congratulations! UIUC is OK, lots of nice areas to haunt though. Hope you like rivers and bugs of the annoying kind. My family has a tradition at UIUC, I have 2 cousins there now. My friend just left a postdoc there (entomology too) for a tenure track position in Washington. I grew up a little bit north in Moline.
Mme Mole beat me to it, but I’ll add a welcome from Ohio.
Hi Alex:
I don’t have to tell you how great it will be to have another taxonomically oriented ant buff just a bit over three hours drive from here. I am a bit embarrassed that I haven’t done any serious sorting at the ant collection there, so when you see it, don’t blame me, heh, heh.
Welcome to the region!
Good going on the position. Camponotus?
Welcome to my neck of the woods (I’m in St. Louis). Maybe someday we can meet up and you can show me the secret to fantastic macrophotos!
Alex You forgot your avid readers down under
Welcome to the Midwest, Alex.
— Rick
Congrats on the new job, Alex. Trading the 110 degrees of Tuscon with the whipping winds of the midwest, huh?
Good luck!
Oh, say hi to Brenda Molano-Flores for me if she’s still there at UIUC.
Congrats on the position!
Hey Alex (and Jo) – don’t know how I’m going to survive without my daily fix on myrmecos. Good luck on your move. Will be looking forward to your next installment…. XXXMom
Best of luck with the new job and move.
You’re moving the house too? 😀