The pendulum

Logged on to the website of the Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS. It seems that they've hired more faculty specialising in Ecology.

So much for the dark years when biodiversity researchers were left out of the mainstream.

In 1984-ville, it seems, even academia is subjected to the pendulum of fashionability. When will they get it in their heads that people, especially the nutty ones who'd crawl through some hole full of bat guano, do things out of passion and not for the promise of well-paid job.