Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out [email protected]! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I'm finding that students in my upper level anatomy and physio course simply are not reading anything I give them. Their exams has bold and often underlined instructions for each section (e.g., true/false but if false change the sentence to make it true) and so many students simply ignored them.

Reached out to someone I saw a clip of trolling (their words lol) about dinosaurs on insta, and now I'm mutuals with Rico Nasty. Life is crazy sometimes.

Took me all day but finally managed to catch this lil rascal from the cabinets in my classroom (sealed jar was very temporary took him outside of campus and let him go with the Fritos)

I think Jubilee is a net negative for society, but it is wild to watch Dave Rubin confidently talk about things he knows legitimately nothing about. Please give me the confidence of a man who does no research and then goes on a program and just spews constant misinformation.

One of my favorite days of the quarter. Students get to measure a mock-up of a track site and use real data to reconstruct hypothetical speeds. The core of this work was done by Dr. Ben Kligman at his time at VT and he kindly shared his framework with me so I could adapt it for my students.

Something something academic articles.

Going on twitter for the first time in like 4 months is crazy cause it's people justifying copying other people's citations uncritically and saying "it should be fine, everyone does it." But at least I wasn't immediately met with racist bs so I guess that's something (the bare minimum).

Ill never understand vaccine hesitancy. Our ancestors would be devastated to learn that people are refusing a treatment that in their day would have meant not burying as many children. A small group of under informed individuals are forcing all of us to experience what life was like before medicine.

I see it's commencement time. To all those who didn't walk or get hooded for one reason or another. Take a moment to reflect on what an incredible accomplishment you've done. Not everyone feels the need to go through the ceremony and if that describes you, you are valid and incredible.

9 is simply too young for a cat. We will miss our little void princess so much. We loved every minute with her, but fuck, this part hurts.

Cat has been acting funny the past couple days. Turns out she has late stage kidney failure. Hold your furry loved ones close.

I wonder what it's like to be Mike Johnson. Universally hated and seen as the most incompetent and ineffective speaker in the history of the house. Is it good to be known as the worst person to ever hold the position? Seems like that should carry immense shame.

Why does the GOP continue to blame the Democrats for cheating in elections and paying protesters? Because that's what the GOP does to win and they assume others do it too. Their policies are so unpopular they can only cheat and project their inadequacy onto others.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

I am glad Trump is backing down but a line was crossed when he explicitly called for a genocide. This is not tolerable, and there is a constitutional remedy. Impeach and remove now.

I have a final project for my intro to dinosaurs class that includes submitting a first draft and incorporating feedback for their final draft. Some students do projects, some write papers. Its been a lot of fun to read revised essays this quarter. I'm seeing a lot of potential in these writers!

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Idk if anyone else watched the Love is Blind reunion, but it's gotta be a wild feeling to sit in a crowd of over 100 people who all trauma bonded the same way and just watch your cohort talk about what a piece of shit you are. Absolute cinema.

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That horrific state of the union starts to make sense if you consider that Trump doesn't believe that poor people are actually people. His policies are helping the people he cares about. A small percentage of the most fortunate individuals are thriving at the cost of almost everybody else. Impeach.

Deeply saddened by the loss of Paleontologist and cat enthusiast, Hans-Dieter Sues. Hans work had a lot of influence on the science that I do, and his kindness had an immense impact on the kind of scientist I am. My heart goes out to his family.

So if companies are getting reimbursed for the tariffs, but we the people (who actually paid those tariffs) don't see a cent, do we get to skip taxes this year? Or can we have that extra money put into public programs that aren't a masked gestapo? Corporations aren't people, what are we doing?

It is really is this simple. (Stares at multiple scientific societies.)

Any Paleo preparators with experience using glass beads and butvar as a filler material for large broken bones?

Question for the Paleo preparator crowd: have you used glass beads in conjunction with high wt/volume vinac solutions(70-80%)? I have a hadrosaur femur that is broken in the midshaft and replacing the eroded material seems like it won't be enough. I want to give it more structural integrity

Completely unsurprised at Jack Horner in the Epstein files. He's been a known predator for a long time and my first (and only) interaction with him was him making a sex joke. Maybe SVP needs to consider taking away his Romer-Simpson award. It does not send a good message to young scientists.

On this #FossilFriday, I've finished the second attempt at a jacket on the way to restoring this broken hadrosaur femur. The specimen cracked under its own weight and once it finishes curing, I'll work on the rest of the clamshell to start restoration!

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo of the grain size chart. Should I just be responsible and keep it in my wallet, or should I make sure it's physically impossible to lose my grain size chart? (already planning scale bar on the finger, don't you worry about that)

@hankgreen.bsky.social am I correct that there is not a sci show episode on Hox genes? If so, I'm simply baffled that you haven't talked about how ridiculous (and cool!) it is that we made fruit flies with legs instead of antennae, with two thoraxes, or the double butt flies.

The industrial revolution was not intentionally burning coal to warm the planet, they did it for efficiency sake. However, oil and gas has known their product contributed to climate change for over 60 years and put forth active disinformation campaigns. Don't let them off the hook.

Boy, I sure didn't expect a viral tweet and Rolling Stones reaching out for shitting on Colossal Biosciences. What a day.

Everything happening can be chalked up to "to the privileged, equality feels like oppression." White men have been fine with others getting the short end of the stick, but someone spends their life honing their skills getting a position they deserve infuriates these children

My piece of shit representative, Michael Baumgartner, has changed his staffers to voicemail only. It's pathetic and cowardly and every day he remains inactive for the people he represents, I am more and more emboldened to run as a pro labor independent and fight for washington.

We need to abolish the current bipartisan party. The wealthy elite win when working class Dems and reps fight and squabble, all while billionaires get richer. America needs a labor party that fights for the rights of working class. This is class warfare and we have no voice.

Nothing better than calling your parents to voice your concern and fear over what is happening and then being told you are simply thinking too negatively. I wish they could understand that their anti-negativity stance just made it so they have never been and continue to not be safe to talk to.

The hardest part of telling intro bio students that <5% of our genome behaves under mendelian laws of inheritance, is that I have to show them a snippet of quantitative genetics to explain the other 95%, and that is very frightening to the young scholar.

Today, on this Darwin's birthday, I gave a 50 minute lecture solely on T. rex. I will always advocate the lil critters, but we gotta pay respects where due! If my students learned one thing, I hope it's this

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Anytime I read a paper where they timescale a parsimony tree

Early career researchers, I love you dearly. But if you keep putting "crown *completely extinct clade*" I'm gonna start adding increasingly distressed gifs to my review document.

Working with a therapist who moves out of network is a nightmare. Insurance denies everything claiming you can just get service elsewhere, when in reality you're doing trauma therapy consistently for the past year and starting over with someone new is not recommended. Just evil corporations.

I'm editing a paper, and I can't help but feel like I should be able to put gifs as comments. I swear Christopher Walken writes every paper I'm on (it's me, I'm the problem, it's, me).

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

I sure hope this place has World of Warcraft shitposters

Time to start using this app as much as I told myself I would

Why are the ads for horror movies never skippable? Some people don't wanna see that stuff and it seems unfair to subject them to it without an option to skip.

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social can I get added to all the science skeeting?