@keithlaw.bsky.social back me up here this Angels farm is the worst I've ever seen. The 2016 one looks like gold compared to this.

Student: you decided whether or not that abstract was relevant in one second!

Me: yeah, I got good doing that for lit searches

Student: you should enter the Olympics for that

Me: I think I already have! I'm trying to be a professor right?

This student's whole table: oooh he got you!

Very bad photo of me with my cat. She doesn't want any part of this.

Happy Valentine's Day to those who are lucky to have someone like Maggie who provides unconditional support!

When I read the Origin of Species I am always disappointed in how little anyone else has come up with since then. Happy Darwin Day!

(Pop gen and development, otherwise it's basically all there somewhere)

Ohhhh man this is tough. If one of the hidden fossils were important to science I would commission someone to write it up. But that's still terrible.

Ok so no important famous fossils, just some fun puzzles.

This plus secret tunnels. Of all kinds. Some with cool doors, some that you have to accidentally hit against a wall in a certain way to open. With my favorite fossils in hidden places I set up puzzles for.

Icebreaker for my students "what is your favorite bird"

There was a lot of hummingbird, one said "penguin; that counts as a bird"... one said "Secretary Bird" and I may have been overly enthusiastic about that.

The most fun answer was Shima Enega, or Aegithalos caudatus. Very cute bird.

Honestly, I was thinking at one point of applying for editor jobs at fancy journal like this but

"Nowhere is this elitism more apparent than in the behavior I sometimes see from academics toward the staff at Science’s journals"

This couldn't be more elite if it tried.

1) mostly in American media, his British stuff is more gentle
2) kitchen culture is garbage and not a good example for anything

RIP Carl Weathers. 80 charisma if I ever saw it.

Who needs risk assessment when there are so many zeros to be had.

Paul I'm sorry to keep randomly stalking you (last time I think was Taskmaster, previously was a project on Dall-E), but I will say that as a biologist Sixth of the Dusk was very satisfying.

Thanks Jeremy!