What is the most important aspect of travelling? If you do a quick survey of your friends you will see that a popular answer is ‘food’. Food can tell you a lot about a culture, and the further away you go the most weird stuff you are going to find. Which might end up in you eating insects, or interiors.. but if you feel adventurous… With this post I don’t intend to put you off trying anything by any means, trying new things and having a full immersion in a new culture is indeed one of the reasons why we travel, so go on and take the plunge.
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As a marine biologist working on animal-environment interactions,and focused on environmental changes driven by human activities that modify conditions for economic or societal benefit, I was surprised and intrigued to find out about bivalve gardening.
First things first: What is bivalve gardening? If you split the words you have your explanation. It refers to the gardening (= growing for personal use) of bivalve species, which are those marine animals with two (=bi) shell halves (=valves). Mussels, oysters, scallops, cockles..all form part of the big bivalve class.
More often than not when describing a target audience for scientific output there is a dichotomy between ‘academic’ and ‘the general public’. In a way, it makes sense that if I am writing a blog article I will not include all of the jargon that I would include in a scientific paper , but nonetheless I wouldn’t want to ‘dumb it down’ just because it is ‘for the general public.’
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