PhD paleobiologist. Trophy husband. Fish historian and fossil enthusiast. He/him/his.
Blacksburg, VA
Joined December 2012
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New paper alert: re-description of an ancient long nosed fish out today in @ZoolJLinnSoc (doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z…, by myself, @laurensallan, JP Hodnett, and Spencer Lucas). Thread: anatomy, paleoecology, and convergent evolution in ancient fishes. Illustration by Nobu Tamura.
ALT Painting of an ancient, long nosed fish (Tanyrhinichthys)
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Every species that we lose is a piece of our natural heritage and an irreplaceable natural resource. Conservation is good for everyone.
I don’t think people can comprehend how biodiverse a single patch of tropical rainforest can be. 🌳
We’ve been in the Amazon for over a year and a half now and every single day we find 10-20 new species for us. 🪲🦋
We’ve photographed over 2500 species of inverts here and the only thing slowing us down is sleep! 😂
Mary Pelota is the most pro fish candidate we have ever seen, very important we get her to the senate.
The fact that this depicts a crane that wouldn’t work perfectly and probably accidentally summarizes the problem with AI boosters.
You really wonder if they got unlucky with sampling and the handful of staffers testing the approach they went with just happened to feel better. Sampling bias is a rough time.
The Rams are all in for the night.
It's 9:45 PM in Melbourne. They slept on the flight over and will sleep now in the hotel for one night and they'll wake up and play a football game in 12 hours.
This isn't some trial and error approach. They've sent 15 staffers over last 2 years and have tracked their bodies and sleep rhythms. This was deemed the approach. No turning back now.
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For those in New Mexico, namely the Albuquerque area, I will be giving a talk on Thursday at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science on Cretaceous dinosaurs and their world, stop by to hear me discuss New Mexico's 'terrible lizards.'
A lot of people died because a weapon that would be publicly announced as existing less than a month later was kept secret, so no effort was made to evacuate or protect civilians. Children played amongst radioactive material falling from the sky, few made it to 40.
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Yes, MSU fans are the pathetic ones as you use racial slurs to describe players of a school you don’t like. Look on the Mr. Brightside, David, in a few weeks we will get to revisit this as Paul heads back home to EL
Based on this experiment from the University of Michigan I’m happy to announce that a second is now 9,192,631,771 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of a cesium-133 atom, rather than the
