Put together my thoughts about how to be a scientist in a world where it feels like the creationists have won

"Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining." This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.

Matamales-Andreu, R., Kammerer, C.F., Angielczyk, K.D. et al. Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun 15, 10346 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

New #MiddleSchool #Education resource! Along with @nocturnetwork.bsky.social's Education & Outreach Team, I'm proud to share this science lesson ft. #3Dmodels made from #CTscans (some from my #ForelimbHomology collection + fun new ones!) Download via QUBEShub! 🦴🐒🦅🐍🦎🐧 qubeshub.org/publications...

New CRAN Task View: Paleontology #rstats #dataviz By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaurs—T. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! 🦖 More... 1/2

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology