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amyys.bsky.social
@amyys.bsky.social

Brilliant teacher, his Intro to Ecology course at U of Penn (good old Bio 201 ~1980) was hands down the best lecture course I’ve ever taken.

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social

"Meet Daniel Janzen: The ecologist who turned 169,000 hectares of Costa Rica into a giant forest filled with biodiversity" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

timesofindia.indiatimes.comMeet Daniel Janzen: The ecologist who turned 169,000 hectares of Costa Rica into a giant forest filled with biodiversityDaniel H. Janzen is a biologist whose career has blurred the traditional boundaries between field ecology, evolutionary science and conservation.

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amyys.bsky.social
@amyys.bsky.social

His lectures would typically be slides from the field (many CR). You'd sit in the dark scribbling some notes as he spoke to them; you'd be absorbed in the the stories and mysteries throughout but when the lights came on, you'd have well-structured notes on basic principles, clearer than a textbook.

amyys.bsky.social
@amyys.bsky.social

A particularly memorable story (allowing for 40 years worth of brain fuzz) was when he spent a day as a hunter/gatherer, down to holding the knife in this hand, grabbing the prey with that hand.