Whistling ducks at Audubon Park this morning.

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨ NEANDERTHALS VS THE ICE AGE - 100,000 Years of Cold ~ with PROFESSOR TRENTON HOLLIDAY @trentonholliday.bsky.social @lemoustier.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/M633cJCT3G4

This year’s citrus crop is *almost* ripe in New Orleans. We just need some cooler temperatures to sweeten it up. Anyway, I saw this today on my way home from sending a package to my daughter:

This stop sign in my neighborhood looks like it’s in the Halloween spirit!

My new paper (open access) reviewing Neandertal cold adaptation is out in AJHB. Shoutout to my awesome coauthors Cara Ocobock, Libby Cowgill, & Scott Maddux. Great fun working with you all! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I find comfort in these landscapes where people worked land on rath and ringfort. They've had the same fears for future. They're us. "How very special are we For just a moment to be Part of life's eternal rhyme How very special are we To have on our family tree Mother Earth and Father Time"

🐂 Animal #785 🐏 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟨🟩 🔥 75 | Avg. Guesses: 6.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

For those of us whose strongest connection to this song is Pulp Fiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6q...

Google Maps thinks I can walk from Dublin to Glasgow in just under three days. But it wants to be sure I know there are stairs in the way.

Obviously, when it does happen you'll hear it here first, because of our many inside sources. Or, as the Americans would write it, sorces.

Do you need a pygmy sea horse break? Here's my story on the deep lesson about evolution they have to teach us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mrKIC8

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

🐭 Animal #754 🦅 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟥🟧🟨🟩 🔥 44 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8 metazooa.com #metazooa

🦙 Animal #734 🐩 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟥🟩 🔥 24 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9 metazooa.com #metazooa

#StandingStoneSunday Grange Stone Circle, Lough Gur, Co. Limerick. Ireland’s largest stone circle at 46 m, it has 113 mostly limestone standing stones. The biggest, L in my 2022 photo, is 40 tons. Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic in age (ca. 3000-2500 BCE), but many of the stones were added in the 1870s.

This is not drawn from today’s puzzle, but when I said to my ornithologist friend that Metazooa had shown me I know nothing about bird phylogeny, he said no one does; “it changes every week still.” 🐎 Animal #691 🐺 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟧🟩 🔥 107 | Avg. Guesses: 7 metazooa.com #metazooa

Spectacular Poulnabrone Neolithic portal tomb, County Clare, Ireland. Built nearly 6,000 years ago, all that remains is its skeleton. First time to see it!

Posting this feels a bit like cheating, and if you play today’s game, you’ll understand why. 🦬 Animal #677 🦅 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟨🟩 🔥 93 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

A while back I posted a link to an unusual (albeit interesting and kind) review of my book Cro-Magnon. Sadly, it was paywalled within a day. It’s available for free now: europeanreviewofbooks.com/art-before-a...

Doubt I’ll be able to outdo this one (in the game Metazooa) 🪱 Animal #606 🐻 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟥🟩 🔥 22 | Avg. Guesses: 7.7 metazooa.com #metazooa

If you’re in Lisbon on Friday, please come see my free talk at the Autonomous University. Infelizmente, meu português é muito mau, so the talk will be in English. #Neanderthal

Did I really just see a Chevron commercial citing their drilling in the “Gulf of America?” Pathetic.

This is from my backyard in New Orleans yesterday. 10.5” (26.5 cm) - an absolutely crazy amount of snow. City is still shut down, and my university will remain shut down tomorrow.

New interview with me dropped on “Evolution Soup”- a bit of a preview of the book I’m (supposed to be) writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzJ...

New interview with me dropped on “Evolution Soup”- a bit of a preview of the book I’m (supposed to be) writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzJ...

Was interviewed by Mark of “Evolution Soup” - some of you may find it interesting? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb50...

Happy Mardi Gras to all who celebrate it!

Here’s my Google Scholar word cloud (many thanks to @morinryan.bsky.social - this is a really cool idea - so much fun!).

This is unusual review of my book, Cro-Magnon, that is briefly available without the paywall: europeanreviewofbooks.com/art-before-a...

Here's my interview about my new book <i>Cro-Magnon</i> (published by Columbia University Press in July 2023) on the New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/cro-magnon