Dr. Tim Bean

Like if you're in the field and something goes wrong and you know that you like contributed to their death, that's pretty much the worst feeling in the world. The practical answer is just the funding and trying to find ways to fund research that's in this gray area where it's hard to find the right funder who wants to pay for the stuff that you want to do and keep it going for a really long time.

Like if you're in the field and something goes wrong and you know that you like contributed to their death, that's pretty much the worst feeling in the world. The practical answer is just the funding and trying to find ways to fund research that's in this gray area where it's hard to find the right funder who wants to pay for the stuff that you want to do and keep it going for a really long time.

Like if you're in the field and something goes wrong and you know that you like contributed to their death, that's pretty much the worst feeling in the world. The practical answer is just the funding and trying to find ways to fund research that's in this gray area where it's hard to find the right funder who wants to pay for the stuff that you want to do and keep it going for a really long time.

Yeah, a benefactor.

Yeah, a benefactor.

Yeah, a benefactor.

I have so many. And on the teaching side, I get paid to learn and ask questions about stuff that I'm interested in and then share that information with other people. And that's awesome. And then being able to find money to pay early career scientists to go into the field and spend a summer out in the world studying animals that they're interested in is also incredible. Just knowing that

I have so many. And on the teaching side, I get paid to learn and ask questions about stuff that I'm interested in and then share that information with other people. And that's awesome. And then being able to find money to pay early career scientists to go into the field and spend a summer out in the world studying animals that they're interested in is also incredible. Just knowing that

I have so many. And on the teaching side, I get paid to learn and ask questions about stuff that I'm interested in and then share that information with other people. And that's awesome. And then being able to find money to pay early career scientists to go into the field and spend a summer out in the world studying animals that they're interested in is also incredible. Just knowing that

I've had the opportunity to support like, you know, spending that much time with focused attention, like learning about some landscape is just an incredible thing that we've set up as a society to make happen.

I've had the opportunity to support like, you know, spending that much time with focused attention, like learning about some landscape is just an incredible thing that we've set up as a society to make happen.

I've had the opportunity to support like, you know, spending that much time with focused attention, like learning about some landscape is just an incredible thing that we've set up as a society to make happen.

People text me all the, not all the time, but like, you know, I know a true friend when they're like, I saw a porcupine, here's a photo of it.

People text me all the, not all the time, but like, you know, I know a true friend when they're like, I saw a porcupine, here's a photo of it.

People text me all the, not all the time, but like, you know, I know a true friend when they're like, I saw a porcupine, here's a photo of it.

My dog just got quilled. Here's a photo of that. Those brighten my day when that happens. The best part of studying porcupines in the wild, though, was, and it was a total surprise, the scale of the study area was pretty small. You could walk north-south probably three hours and maybe an hour east-west. From the minute that we got out there and started looking for porcupines

My dog just got quilled. Here's a photo of that. Those brighten my day when that happens. The best part of studying porcupines in the wild, though, was, and it was a total surprise, the scale of the study area was pretty small. You could walk north-south probably three hours and maybe an hour east-west. From the minute that we got out there and started looking for porcupines

My dog just got quilled. Here's a photo of that. Those brighten my day when that happens. The best part of studying porcupines in the wild, though, was, and it was a total surprise, the scale of the study area was pretty small. You could walk north-south probably three hours and maybe an hour east-west. From the minute that we got out there and started looking for porcupines

We just started naming things without even talking about it. It was just like, oh, there's this location that this thing happened. We're going to call it that. And there's this really popular willow stand that a bunch of different porcupines were going to call it this and started naming the porcupines.

We just started naming things without even talking about it. It was just like, oh, there's this location that this thing happened. We're going to call it that. And there's this really popular willow stand that a bunch of different porcupines were going to call it this and started naming the porcupines.