Day 4, a pair of chilling Proburnetia

Day 7 Portrait of the hyaena dog Borophagus

Very excited the first paper from PhD is now out! Alex Dunhill James Davis Reimer Maria Beger Trait networks: Assessing marine community resilience and extinction recovery: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

“I’m not rich. I do earn a lot of money but it’s much less after I’ve spent it!”

Sperm whale vs giant squid isn't even close. Like, it really, REALLY isn't close. (but it looks REALLY metal, I'll give it that lol) 🧵

When my son was born he went into neonatal intensive care for lung issues. I was not allowed to stay and comfort my wife (recovering on a ward) or stay with my critically ill son, so drove home alone leaving them behind. Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch thinks partygate was overblown

Hard to overstate just how rapid the changes in US party coalitions have been. The Democrats are now the party of high education *and* high income voters. Just 12 years ago, the inverse was true. On these terms, the Trump coalition was closer to Obama 2008 than the Harris one!

Wore a suit for a job interview. My son asked me “Daddy, why are you wearing that silly costume?”

Shameful to see that this plagiarized artwork by Will Toosey (left) has just been published in PLOS One, even after his behavior was brought to the attention of coauthor Steve Brusatte. The original piece is by Dmitry Bogdanov (right).

Mushrooms possess a remarkable and previously unrecognized mechanism to actively disperse their spores, challenging the long-held belief that spore dispersal is a passive process at the mercy of external winds. This mechanism relies on evaporative cooling and convective

Fantastic resource! Congratulations to Bryan Gee and all involved

I think I may have figured something out. MAGA are so afraid of this invisible "indoctrination" because they are failures as parents. Their kids would rather go to a school counselor because their parent is not their safe space. And MAGA wants to take that away from kids.

In summer there’s a river at the bottom of the car park. In winter the car park’s at the bottom of the river. I don’t know how much time and money oxford put into expanding seacourt park and ride, but the entirety of the expansion has become a lake

An early/middle Permian Gorgonopsian from the (then) equatorial localities in Mallorca. Pushes early divergence of therapsids into the early Permian, and potentially into the equatorial regions!!! So exciting!!! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Been working a lot on plant phylogeny in recent years, so in the spirit of Christmas cheer and not leaving work at the office, here is the phylogeny of my Christmas dinner

How cool is this! The Washington Geological Survey's Augmented-Reality Sandbox lets you dive into geology by shaping landscapes and exploring geological processes hands-on.

Where did dinosaurs originate? Our new paper, led by EarthSciences UCL PhD student Joel Heath (with Natalie Cooper & Paul Upchurch), accounts for variation in sampling within biogeographic analyses to indicate a novel a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs: cell.com/current-biolog…

Year of the Snake 🐍

In case anyone’s wondering who’s going to be the next James Bond, this just came through my door