Something for future work to quantify. Just glad we were able to attempt a solid early effort at doing so for the Mesozoic. Hopefully more refinement will be built off of this.
I've heard there's a meeting for @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social tomorrow. Hopefully they're planning on responding to this in more earnest than their email this morning.
3 hours ago, I shared my results of having combed through ~470 DOJ Epstein files that mention Jack Horner, his MSU email, or "Dinochicken". I posted a copy, w/ screenshots and receipts, to r/Paleontology. It has been pinned by moderators and thus far viewed 38k times.
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At least one if them is rather suspect.
Jack Horner in the Epstein File trying to raise money to fund dinosaur research. When I discovered we had rich nazis on our dig in 2008, I dropped them like a rancid turd; ask Don. There will never be a Trumpasaurus with my name attached! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
Video for the other Morrison Formation megavolume paper I'm on is up!
youtu.be/GW1raha_qRA
New video on one of the papers I'm on in the Morrison Formation megavolume is up!
youtu.be/Bsr0j5V5xDM?...
No worries. I stole it from a group chat for the video lol
Oh, apparently @raptorchatter.bsky.social already made that joke. youtu.be/Ecr4N-m9ChU?...
Our video looking at the recent paper critiquing the claim that a dire wolf was cloned is out!
youtu.be/R8p7pb7fTd0
I have what I think is a solid guess, and if so I'm stoked. But also if not I'm sure it'll be interesting.
Our video on the new 'spinosaurid' material from Peru is up! youtu.be/2-Oi90KGbh0?...
Our website is live! Check out our paleo themed merch!
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I have to assume Mr. Xkcd was subject to massive tectonic forces which overturned the beds.
Our video on Shri rapax with commentary on niche partitioning is out! youtu.be/xQGMlfOGgQQ
An image of a classic paper by taphonomists Mairi Best and Susan Kidwell
An image of a Google AI description of a completely fictional (as far as I can tell) architectural firm named "Best & Kidwell" that is supposedly based in Panama City. It even includes a picture of one of the partners(?).
Incredible example of how AI is destroying Google search: working on a paper on mollusk shell assemblages in Panama so I tried to search for the classic paper on the left (which I know about because I was a field assistant). Instead Google AI hallucinated a completely fictional architectural firm.
Megaraptorchatter!!!!
In two days I'm gonna be a published author. Feels surreal.
Reading, however slowly you do it, is thinking. And you cannot do research if you do not think.
Undergrads, I can understand.
But if a grad student uses LLMs to summarize papers, just leave, go and give the funding and space to someone who actually wants to learn something.
Whoa, you mean the people who had serious questions about this were right to question them the entire time, and just saying "trust me bro" isn't a good response to criticism.
There's a few changes I like, but the Spinosaurus as a whole is pretty awful. I also wouldn't say accurate for most of the changes though either.
Look, it's the main thing I wanted this Christmas!
80000 per year x 4 security guards is still less than actually providing healthcare.
Once again it's not about morality it's about profit. As soon as UH posted for a new CEO before the body was cold it felt like this would happen.
A second oarfish has hit California.
One of the best keynotes for any conference I've been to. If not the best.
Never thought I'd compliment Ohio, but at least the Cincinnati airport had a nice little "welcome to Cincinnati" sign in the airport for all the paleontologists.
Getting covid and then bronchitis just before the SVP meeting sucks, in part because I had to slow down poster design, and now I'm paying extra to get them in time.
If people are really interested in chatting about svp abstracts I will say you can chat about specifically page 414 on this post.
