Back from the field: Yakushima

Yakushima is drop-dead gorgeous. Hidden beaches, tucked into rocky corners; mountains lush with cedar; water as delicious as anything out of a bottle, and drinkable without treatment.

I chanced to see all of three monkeys while in the field (although I saw scores more on the way up to and down from the mountains).

I’m convinced now to make field work part of my research.

Fly pushing: on Monday I’m starting a job as a lab assistant at the Drosophila Genetic Resource Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology.