More media stardom for B.

[purplecat]

No idea exactly when this was shown but B. continues to win the "does cool stuff with science" game. So far I've only been able to watch it with the sound off because I'm in a shared office so I've not gleaned much except that he's acquired a new job title "Computational Primatologist" which must have any interested viewers scratching their heads about why he's messing around with T. Rexes.

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I don't get the Computational Primatologist either, and suspect that the producers must have mustunderstood something, somehow! If you ask B, do let us know!

Edit: I wrote that before listening to it properly. The commentary said out loud that B usually works on primates and had only recently turned to T-Rex. Is that in fact the case?

[purplecat]

My mum once asked what B. actually did and I was constructing a fairly coherent answer involving human evolution and primates and then I ran into mapping caves like the bats do and had to fall back on "anything that seems cool". His PhD is in primatology and until the dinosaurs came along human evolution and primate locomotion covered most of his work, so I can sort of see where the term came from but "anything that seems cool" pretty much covers it.

[purplecat]

Reply to edit.

Yup that's correct. He used to be mostly primates but he so would have worked on dinosaurs if he could have found the way in which Manchester handily provided.