Past and Current Work With Dogs
In one of her first publications, she appeared to have a dog as a coauthor for a paper for the Journal of Experimental Medicine. As Ted Anton described the decision in his book Bold Science, "Refusing to write in the usual scientific passive voice ('steps were taken') and too insecure to write in the first person ('I took the steps'), she instead invented coauthor": her Afghan Hound, Galadriel Mirkwood. Once discovered, papers on which she was a major author were then barred from the journal until the editor died and was replaced by another.
Although no dogs have been coauthors of any of her recent papers, she is an avid sheepdog trainer, and, with her two Border Collies, Charlie and Lily, was on the team that represented the United States at the 2005 World Sheepdog Finals in Tullamore, Ireland. She is one of the featured scientists (along with one of her sheepdogs) in the 1995 science documentary Death by Design/The Life and Times of Life and Times.
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