To reiterate: OB has no brain at all.

I have a colleague who mentors the catholic club on our campus and they ordered some cheap stickers for an event. They got what they paid for. This feels like a threat… maybe I should go through them with her at some point and look for more bible stickers with threatening auras.

Orange boy sometimes likes to creep me out by sleeping with his eyes open. And snoring. On top of Big Boy’s head, too, because why not.

I haven’t posted anything for a while sorry guys yes my cats are still big and in love with each other.

New paper out online in Geology @geosociety.bsky.social for #FossilFriday with @bigfacecats.bsky.social, @thomashegna.bsky.social and Ron Meyer. We describe an unusual horseshoe crab from the Ordovician of Michigan which preserves the ovaries with developing eggs! 🧪⚒️ 🧵[1/7] doi.org/10.1130/G533...

Enjoy ten seconds of Big Boy purring. #purring

Is this anything?

Just heard the news that Richard Fortey has passed away. As well as his science he did a lot for popukarising arthropod research in his books. Reading his autobiography (A Curious Boy) really made me reflect on my own pathway into science and highlighted the different opportunities people get.

R O U N D

This paper is really a great paper for a number of reasons but one of the big ones *is* this figure.

This might be the best reviewer comment I have ever received. 🧪

They love each other so very much.

Y’all I think God is trying to tell me something.

Important update re: OB’s dental. I am forgiven.

I’ve been avoiding social media except to post daily cat timeline cleanses, I should start doing that here. OB had a tooth extracted yesterday and ended up sitting like this in my living room for upwards of 20 minutes last night. He was still very stoned.

You know what they say, "Never going in against a caecilian when milk is on the line" or ... something like that

He snorfled, then snorted himself awake. This cat is unreal.

In case you were wondering, Big Boy and Orange Boy love each other very much.

Don’t worry, Orange Boy is happy too.

Big Boy is happy I’m home and feeling ridiculous.

Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa from these two dapper boys!

My parents’ cat Bebe has finally figured out that the pillow my mom made for her is nice. It only took like two years.

It’s 63 degrees in my office this morning. I pity folks with Saturday finals today.

The last few days I think all of the stress I’ve been under has caught up to me, and I had a seriously rough couple of days with my mental health. I had a whole thread typed up multiple times and deleted it, because I couldn’t convince myself that it was worth saying, or that I wasn’t just whining.

I’ve had a very tough couple of days/weeks, but the good news is that Big Boy makes an excellent weighted blanket.

I believe he has no brain in his head at all tonight. (His allergies are also pretty bad with the weather swings we’re having, poor buddy.)

Dan Campbell when other teams don't go for it on 4th

I maintain that no one knows how to relax like OB.

Sorry I just had a moment of complete disconnect where I realized I was streaming music while simultaneously looking at a snowy webcam feed and sort of had this mental moment of—“remember when it took three hours to download the first LotR trailer in 1999?”

Good evening, Bluesky. Enjoy OB and look for the single brain cell rattling around in there somewhere…

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

I’m a paleontologist who studies living and fossil birds. I went to a Skyline chili with family the day before Thanksgiving and my grandpa’s friend asked me about my job. So I made him a phylogenetic tree of Accipiteriformes.

Every morning we have to sit on my kitchen floor and get snuggles and pets. This is not an option, and I will get screamed at if I don’t do this.

An accurate reflection of how I feel after the holiday… and I didn’t even get all of the papers graded. (I did get half of them graded though…)

Hello I am still visiting family and they have a tiny dog which is fine I guess but I miss these two idiots.

As a Lions fan, I agree with this post wholeheartedly. I hope the Bears keep him forever.

ITS COMING TRUE

gotcha gotcha day! todays the day we gotcha, so its your gotcha day!! two years ago, we adopted fishtopher!! first pic is day 1, now day 731 ❤️

Do you think my intro bio students will forgive me for not grading their papers if I just show them this picture?

I have come down with a nasty stomach bug. Good timing since we’re now on break. Fortunately have a lot of help.

tl,dr; it’s email

It has been a long, long couple of weeks. Big Boy agrees.

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: I’m Amanda and I’ll never amount to anything because I can’t do timed math tests.

If I could inject two pieces knowledge into the minds of every American, they would be 1) always try your best to show care and compassion towards your fellow humans and 2) what a comma splice is and how to avoid writing them

It is snowing where I’m at and I am stuck at work late today and late tomorrow. But soon…

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

Teaching has gotten to this point in the semester in my second year courses. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Now that I’ve remembered my Bluesky password I can update the void again on the mundane habits of my life. I get to tell my students about calcium balance today. Yay rickets!

Well, I woke up to a bunch of new followers! Hello everyone! I’m an associate professor of biology at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest, studying paleontology, mass extinction, and ornithology. Or am I two big cats named Big Boy and Orange Boy in a trenchcoat? I’ll never tell.

Friends in case you’re feeling like you can’t do it today I am a tenured associate professor with a solid teaching record and a good research record and I just spent the first two hours of my comparative physiology lab troubleshooting our EKG/EMG sensors only to find that it was a software issue.