{"id":1729,"date":"2009-06-04T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/04\/another_career_change_in_the_works\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:47:35","slug":"another_career_change_in_the_works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/04\/another_career_change_in_the_works\/","title":{"rendered":"Another career change in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/amadtea-party.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/for-love-of-science.html\">commented<\/a> that I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any such thing as the perfect job.<br \/>\nBut I think I might have been wrong.<br \/>\nA paper in today&#8217;s <em>Current Biology<\/em>[1] made me realise that my perfect job <em>does<\/em> exist:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&#038;_udi=B6VRT-4WFHK7G-5&#038;_user=1022551&#038;_rdoc=1&#038;_fmt=&#038;_orig=search&#038;_sort=d&#038;view=c&#038;_acct=C000050484&#038;_version=1&#038;_urlVersion=0&#038;_userid=1022551&#038;md5=1445dc0a18ba8a7521bf95912877b6da\">Ape tickler.<\/a><br \/>\nFrom the Methods section:<br \/>\n<code>Subjects were 22 infant and juvenile apes and 3 human infants (Table S1). The apes included 7 orangutans, 5 gorillas, 4 chimpanzees, 5 bonobos, and 1 siamang. All individuals were audio-recorded in their home facilities (or homes) while being tickled by familiar and mostly different humans, who were instructed to trigger tickle-induced vocalizations in the subjects as part of a playful social interaction, a method that has been effectively applied in a range of species [11], [12], [13] and [14] (see Figure 1 for representative spectrograms). Subjects were primarily tickled on their palms, their feet, their necks, or in their armpits. Table S1 includes further information about subjects and recordings.<\/code><br \/>\nCheck out the recordings. I did. I&#8217;m working on my CV and cover letter right now. What&#8217;s the weather like in Portsmouth?<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> and reported all over the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8083230.stm\">popular media<\/a> too. BTW, what&#8217;s up with the new ads on the BBC website? Not. Happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently commented that I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any such thing as the perfect job. But I think I might have been wrong. A paper in today&#8217;s Current Biology[1] made me realise that my perfect job does exist:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}