{"id":352,"date":"2011-03-23T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-03-23T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:42:37","slug":"the-virtues-of-waiting-procrastinating-and-avoiding-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/23\/the-virtues-of-waiting-procrastinating-and-avoiding-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The virtues of waiting, procrastinating and avoiding conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_353\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birding.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-353\" title=\"birding with Dr. Adler\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birding-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birding-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birding-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birding.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NIMBioS postdocs and staff enjoy a day of birding with Dr. Fred Adler (far right).<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So was the advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.utah.edu\/~adler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Fred Adler<\/a>, NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor, who spoke on this topic at Tuesday&#8217;s NIMBioS Interdisciplinary Seminar. Adler, a professor in the mathematics and biology departments at the Univ. of Utah, was referring to ants who appear to avoid stressful situations by procrastinating difficult decisions. A handy skill for graduate students, perhaps? An avid birder, Dr. Adler graciously offered to lead a birding outing on Sunday for NIMBioS folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So was the advice from Dr. Fred Adler, NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor, who spoke on this topic at Tuesday&#8217;s NIMBioS Interdisciplinary Seminar. Adler, a professor in the mathematics and biology departments at the Univ. of Utah, was referring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/23\/the-virtues-of-waiting-procrastinating-and-avoiding-conflict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}