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"The North wind doth blow And we shall have snow But what will poor Robin do then? Poor thing!" How do non-migrating birds keep from freezing when the weather outside is frightful?🧵 📷Thomas Hanahoe

I've seen a lot of this sort of mask wearing in the selfie trend. Does the bridge of your nose have a corner? NO! When you leave that crease in, you're leaving a gap that COVID can enter! See it in the profile? But it's the shape, right? What can you do? Here's an easy fix.🧵

"Recognizing ethical duties and legal rights is an important 1st step in developing a framework that accommodates pts with disabilities now that universal masking is no longer the norm in many clinical settings, and as COVID-19 cases are again on the rise."jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

I recently interviewed a Los Angeles garment worker who makes clothes for fast fashion labels. I got choked up during some parts of our interview and felt pretty sick at the end. My story for The Nation about America's hidden sweatshops thenation.com/article/archiv…

New paper out today led by my brilliant student (and friend 🥰) Clinton Andrew Grand Pre, PhD, PhD on alligator lungs and osteological correlates 🐊🫁: ultrasound, ventilation, and archosaurs galore 🥳 peerj.com/articles/16542/

It's still sinking in that this milestone has been reached. Deepest thanks to Steve Brusatte and Thomas Williamson for supervising me and to Rachel Wood and David Polly for an excellent examining conversation yesterday. Folks, stay tuned in 2024 for the start of the next adventure :-)

I had a joyful oppurtunitiy of illustrating my first Children's Book "What am I" with Michael Pittman. It is about a lost Blue Magpie figuring out life in the wilderness of Hong Kong!

It's always a blast when I remember how weird Protuberum is. Aside from being a member of Traversodontidae, a family of herbivorous cynodonts, it also had its ribs and ilia full of bumpy protuberances, something truly unique among tetrapods. What was going on with this guy?!

Can’t say enough good things about the Field museum’s special exhibits! TIL: -ancient Romanians liked em thicc -one of the first European kings was an alcoholic -leeches are beautiful -barber poles are red and white to advertise bloodletting services.

🧵 I think Jon Favreau and others don't understand. THIS is how Long Covid happens in the vast majority of cases (including mine): 1. Someone has a relatively mild infection, is not hospitalized, feels "normal" in a couple of weeks, at most.

That's how it's done

Did you know that we have fossil evidence that mosasaurs got decompression sickness? (the bends) This can also be seen like some modern day deep diving air breathers like sea turtles. Sometimes whales. Evolution is never as optimized as it seems.

Don’t you dare wear gloves to handle an iPod like it’s an ancient artifact!

Managed to avoid covid for a long time but it finally got me. How are we ok with this disease running amok? Will I forget how tired I’ve been in two weeks?

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🚨 New paper on #dinosaur #brain evolution & development in Nature Communications 🚨 Pleased to be part of the study led by Logan King showing theropods & ornithischians shared a "dino-wide" brain shape scaling trend different from modern birds and alligators. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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In the other place, we’ve got more cat pictures and fewer fascists. And no billionaire man babies.