Welcoming in the superb owl

Coming in October. The hype is real. 😁 The Talisman and Black House are definitely in my top 10 King books. Looking forward to this sequel...

I've read enough Stephen King books to know to stay away from mysterious metallic rocks in Maine...

SPIED THIS IN A MANAGER’S OFFICE!!!!

I thought my lil melon sword was a goner, but found a new sprout today 😊

I feel like this is a great time to remind everyone that it's not even technically wrong to say that logistic regression is machine learning

I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color! 🐡🧪

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it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

He doesn't know what a NEXUS file is...

The Muppet Show is back. Nature is healing.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

quick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation

A very distinguished gentleman

Same tbh

Just a man in his tube

Tempted to put this phrase in all my new papers...

Want to see what a dream coming true looks like? What to hear what it sounds like? Also: Be cool, Wil. Stephen King typed out your name, and you absolutely can NOT make it weird. Be. Cool.

Working in my home office and I turn around to catch Frank and Lola playing in the bubbles 🥰

Giving a short intro to GMM in R today. Should be fun!

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

Saw the first robins of springtime (?)

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Meet Frank and Lola. I picked up this unsexed pair of keyhole cichlids today. They're acclimating to quarantine now. So cute!

"Thank Cod you're home now mum."

When I am away, Henry has to assert dominance to show my husband who's boss. We call this his Up Down dance.

I usually stick to echinoderms, but this insect was so stunning. This is a Cretaceous aged Neuropterid insect, Hemerobidae sp. #FossilFriday

Another day, another jaw Gzhelian, Appalachian Basin(nr Pittsburgh) 303-298 Ma

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Man I love fossils 🦖🦴

Travel today:

Unicorns aren't mythical they just returned to the seas. (Niece): you mean they evolved into ocean dwelling creatures and live there now, playing happily among the waves? No, no. They all drowned.

Awesome!!

No

About 1 yr ago, I was down to 1 bronze cory (Whiskers) in the tank. I bought a new school so he'd have friends. For the most part they interact, but often I'll see the new 5 cluster together, leaving Whiskers (now almost 6 years old) by himself. Maybe the old man needs his alone time 😅

If you're cold, they're cold. Keep them indoors.

Friend shaped

The Anthelia are looking particularly nice today

Q: When is a horse not a horse? A: When it's Hyracotherium.

Weird little guy

Coo coo

Cows use tools! 🧹 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Classy fishy license plate.

"Moooom. The walking pincushion is in my spot."

Library book sale haul

I got cartoonified!! Check out this awesome video summary of my past PNAS paper on body size evolution in response to paleoclimatic changes in tetraodontiform fishes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2s... Read the study here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Inoculating mice with gut bacteria from humans and squirrel monkeys upregulated genes associated with energy production, suggesting that the microbiome may have played a supporting role in the evolution of energy-intensive brains. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HRE550XWiXg

Summer fish class at Friday Harbor Labs 🐟 5 weeks, field + lab, real projects. Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available. Apply: February 16, 2026 Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions! Details in the flyer ⬇️

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net