If Ismet Ugursal were a regular reader of Times Higher Education, where my article was first published, he would know that the article was written partly tongue in cheek, but with a serious point.

It is also clear from his letter that being a professor at Dalhousie must be a very different experience from being one in the UK at the present time.

Tim Birkhead
Animal & Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield


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