Embarrassing Moments in Research: #FieldWorkFail Illustrated
Posted by Richard Conniff on September 8, 2016
Scientists doing fieldwork sometimes get into seriously embarrassing, or even dangerous, situations. Some of them end up, tragically, on the Wall of Dead: A Memorial to Fallen Naturalists.
But others live to tell the tale, and dine out on their own mini-disasters.
French illustrator Jim Jourdane noticed and has produced a highly entertaining series of drawings of fieldwork: “To make these illustrations,” he explains, “I use stories shared on twitter by scientists with the #fieldworkfail hashtag.”
My favorite:
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