Things I do or would rather not draw attention to.
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I'm an entomologist who has worked with various agricultural pests at a university. I'm mainly an ecologist trained in integrated pest management, so I've dealt with biological control, population dynamics, some toxicology (mainly effects of insecticides on pests and beneficial insects), etc. Basically a lot of teaching on how to work with good bugs. I normally frequent agricultural and entomological related topics because of that. As a scientist, I'm especially interested in how scientific findings reach and are interpreted by the general public. With that, my main interest on Wikipedia is seeing that scientific articles match up with the published literature and are appropriately summarized for general readers.
With COI in mind, I don't edit on specific topics that I research directly and follow the general guidelines for academics. That means that while I may edit the page of a pest I've worked on, I won't be editing content pertaining to my research topics specifically (or citing my own studies for that instance). All my work is pretty niche though, so I functionally won't have a COI in any topic on Wikipedia (especially while not citing myself) unless someone decides a to write a BLP page about me (which I hope not). It seems to come up often in articles I edit, but I don't receive funding from private companies (i.e., pesticide companies), nor do I have any personal or financial connection to pesticides or companies marketing them in general as a university researcher.
