Just had to download a couple of technical papers from Academia.edu and learnt that I have been mentioned 631 times in papers.
I'd sooner be rich.
Anyway, I had to unpack and re-store a foal skull that was examined by a Prof who specialised in this. Apparently there is dentition evidence that the foal was killed by a "large predatory cat". I have the original paper somewhere.
According to the Prof I worked with: "I see Ros has been very careful about not giving precise locations. It's great that the UK has made a significant contribution to the methodology of "medium sized felid" studies."
That was 2011 and then silence.
I talked to a fellow who says that he was at the university and the rumour was ("a very strong rumour") that the Professor and the project was shut down after threats about funding from "outside" and one of the conditions was not contacting me even to explain what was going on.
True? Who knows but it was the last time I'll ever work with an academic as this was the 5th who took the reports and data as well as maps then dumped on me.
Oddly, just remembered that I thought that it was odd the Professor sent me the skull to "hold on to in case it is needed as evidence at a later date" because I thought this would be better kept by an academic involved in the work...maybe it wasn't a rumour?
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