This week, we welcome our own Bob Montgomerie.

DAZED AND CONFUSED: a naturalist in the 20th century
Abstract: As I am retiring from my faculty position at the end of this month, I have been asked to give this exit seminar, though I am not actually going anywhere. I will reflect on what it was like to be a naturalist in the last half of the twentieth century, with the coming of age of evolutionary biology and the emergence of evolutionary ecology and behavioural ecology as vibrant and exciting subdisciplines. This has truly been a golden age for evolutionary biology with new concepts (kin selection, sperm competition, honest signalling, island biogeography, selfish genes), new instruments for tracking, recording and observing animals and plants (GPS, drones, satellites, citizen science) , and new tools for data analysis, writing, and drawing graphs (desktop computers, GUIs, R, machine learning). While I have embraced all of these ideas and technologies with a passion, I still see a lot of value in getting out into the wilds with a pencil, a notebook, and an enquiring mind.
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Robert Montgomerie
Department of Biology
Queen’s University
Kingston
ON K7L 3N6
CANADA
WEBSITE: https://bobmontgomerie.wordpress.com
BOOK: Ten Thousand Birds (with Tim Birkhead and Jo Wimpenny), see https://myriadbirds.com
WEBSITE on HISTORY OF ORNITHOLOGY: https://amornithhistory.org
BLOG on History of ornithology: https://amornithhistory.org/blog
Sorry about that. We did change the calendar location and the map location on the site though.