Oh, apparently @raptorchatter.bsky.social already made that joke. youtu.be/Ecr4N-m9ChU?...

Our video looking at the recent paper critiquing the claim that a dire wolf was cloned is out! youtu.be/R8p7pb7fTd0

Our video on the new 'spinosaurid' material from Peru is up! youtu.be/2-Oi90KGbh0?...

Our website is live! Check out our paleo themed merch! raptorchatter.com

I have to assume Mr. Xkcd was subject to massive tectonic forces which overturned the beds.

Our video on Shri rapax with commentary on niche partitioning is out! youtu.be/xQGMlfOGgQQ

Incredible example of how AI is destroying Google search: working on a paper on mollusk shell assemblages in Panama so I tried to search for the classic paper on the left (which I know about because I was a field assistant). Instead Google AI hallucinated a completely fictional architectural firm.

Megaraptorchatter!!!!

I'm published author!!!! youtu.be/qcFYTt7Vceo?...

In two days I'm gonna be a published author. Feels surreal.

Reading, however slowly you do it, is thinking. And you cannot do research if you do not think. Undergrads, I can understand. But if a grad student uses LLMs to summarize papers, just leave, go and give the funding and space to someone who actually wants to learn something.

Whoa, you mean the people who had serious questions about this were right to question them the entire time, and just saying "trust me bro" isn't a good response to criticism.

Look, it's the main thing I wanted this Christmas!

A second oarfish has hit California.

One of the best keynotes for any conference I've been to. If not the best.

Never thought I'd compliment Ohio, but at least the Cincinnati airport had a nice little "welcome to Cincinnati" sign in the airport for all the paleontologists.

Getting covid and then bronchitis just before the SVP meeting sucks, in part because I had to slow down poster design, and now I'm paying extra to get them in time.

If people are really interested in chatting about svp abstracts I will say you can chat about specifically page 414 on this post.

I said it on the cursed site, but he didn't even tell me he was taking a photo! I guess I was actively showing people fossils though, which is one of my favorite things to do!

A nicely lit Postosuchus cast for national fossil day, while volunteering with Petrified Forest!