I spent my weekend in the bush. Traces of collision with insects on my car and seeing insects on the ground while I spent one whole night walking in the bush! Incredible how busy insects are, moving around and I have no idea how many I have squashed under my feet. I read this article around bees and wow it is mind blowing what people experience when they spend quality time with insects, I dont know how I can get to understand these beings, sounds they are very sophisticated. Interesting article here “Anyone who has observed bees would surely intuit their incredible sensitivity to touch, but a few years ago the animal behaviour researchers Mariana Gil and Rodrigo J De Marco from the Institute for Biology and Neurobiology in Berlin wanted to prove something more. They wanted to show that bees communicate cartographic information – including the distance to a nectar source or the location of a new potential hive – through touch.” “Sainath had spent several years doing lab and field experiments with wasps and bees, but ultimately wanted to shift from traditional practices in entomology to research that included human/insect relationships. It was Sainath who made me wonder about the role of emotion in science – both in the scientists themselves and in the subjects of their experiments. I had always thought of emotion as something excised from science, but this was impossible for some scientists. What was the role of empathy in experimentation? How do we, with our human limitations, understand something as radically different from us as the honeybee? Did bees have feelings, too? If so, what did that mean for the scientist? For the science?” “invertebrates such as bees fall outside the umbrella of these ethics in the lab, where researchers see them as tools meant for sacrifice. The great irony is that the researchers themselves might need to shut down their own emotions and their sense of compassion to continue working. How do they separate themselves?
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:18:25 +0000
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