Taxonomist Appreciation Day post I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work. To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts. You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost. 1/3

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Please support biodiversity science by citing taxonomic literature & acknowledging museum collections. Here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, our Invertebrate Paleontology collection houses millions of specimens, including ~10k type & figured specimens 🧪

TLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology

Sharing my research and learning from the community at #PalAss2025 It was a great experience to be a part of such a lovely and warm conference! #portsmouth #iiserpune

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm a bit late, since we were away for fieldwork, but check out our new paper on data equity in paleo, led by the amazing @emmadnn.bsky.social.

📢 New publication! Oligo-Miocene marine bivalves from the Kutch Basin (western India) and their biogeographic implications in the context of Tethyan closure: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The project is funded by SERB @ANRFIndia, @IISERPune