Researching why legless lizards and snakes don't have feet. neckspert. (She/her) 😷
evolution, paleontology, ADHD, disability rights, grants, whatever my hyperfixation is this week.
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Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it.
People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
I waited so long to book my lodgings for the Evolution conference that everywhere is discounted like 35%. I think the lesson is always procrastinate?
That 2015 New Yorker piece on very large Cascadia earthquakes is circulating again, so a reminder:
To a very large degree, the impact of earthquakes is a "solved" scientific and engineering problem.
But they aren't solved *political* problems.
the thing about geologists saying a thing is coming soon is they mean it could be tomorrow or sometime in the next 3000 years
Australia was once lush and wet and will be again!
But what will the lizards do?
Very unfortunately oriented continent from the perspective of not wiping out a *huge* diversity of life.
20+ million years ago there were river dolphins in the Lake Frome area of Australia.
It's now a giant salt flat.
Because Australia is oriented so unfortunately with respect to climate belts.
🧠 At long last... our paper "Ethmosphenoid #endocasts elucidate evolutionary #brain divergences and interrelationships of stem tetrapods (Sarcopterygii, #Tetrapodomorpha)" has been published, today in Papers in Palaentology @thepalass.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The second episode of Surviving Earth premieres tonight on NBC! But before that I want to share with you more concept designs I did for various animals from last week’s episode. If you know me you can imagine how excited I was to design Triassic species for this show!
#paleoart #sciart #conceptart
Help settle a disagreement between @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social and I: how do you define parasitoidism?
Beaks of the Permo-Triassic: a morpho-functional analysis at the dawn of a novel structure in tetrapod evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
