Daniel Blumstein

I'm clearly not effective at writing proposals for peer review.

Good at writing papers, but proposals aren't working.

So, I mean, basically, you have to follow your inner marmot.

That's my advice.

I follow my inner marmot regularly, and it takes me good places, and they experience interesting things and meet interesting people like today.

But, you know, I love handling pups because the big marmots, we don't knock our animals out.

We put them in handling bags, and then we try to get blood from them.

We try to get mouth swabs, and we try to put marks on them.

We can study them, and we don't hurt them, and that's a good thing.

But the babies, you can hold in a hand.

And if you're holding it right, you don't get bit.

They fit in your hand.

You sort of grip them.

Yeah, a little longer.

Sometimes smaller.

I want to see a pup IRL.

Oh, you do.

So what you want to do is you want to do a field of biology-ologies and come to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and see a bunch of

you know, science geeks at work.

Marmots are cool.