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We have been fanboying over Myotragus both here and in Manchester. Here is some of Dorothea Bates material:

Fossils on the beach

Tortoises! Live cuttlefish! Pleistocene fossils! Sea grass! Vultures!
Our first ecology and palaeontology undergrad field course to Mallorca is off to a strong start

Really enjoyed this one. Sometimes I feel a bit mean poking fun at papers, but when they are this bonkers…

A sneak peak of us sniggering about mammoths sneezing themselves to death 🦣🤧☠️

Of course the first thing I googled when I left the screening of Project Hail Mary was the unbalanced centrifuge and finding a deluge of enraged lab rats in the comments…

Oh my goodness 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I guess we were predicting this in our recent Burgess Shale in the Ediacaran episode @thefossilfiles.bsky.social but we went too early!!

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In which Susie and I try not to giggle about fossil butt holes and silly looking dinosaurs

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When I am awoken by the kids on when the clocks have gone forward:

Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences? Abstract. We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation,

If you are looking for an example of best-practice in abstract-writing, this is a good starting point

Also, their methodology might need another category of “unintentional bemusement” whereby a speaker unintentionally caused the audience to laugh at them.
Which may or may have happened to me.
Frequently.

I worry that many of my attempts at conference jokes wouldn’t even clear their minimum scoring category of “polite chuckles”. I might have need the category, “baffled silence.”

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That ain’t a lamprey

We look forward to updates! I hope you have managed to get rid of all that mud

New Cambrian and Ediacaran wonders!

It has always been difficult to properly understand the Cambrian explosion because the fossil preservation windows are limited and change at the beginning of Cambrian.
But take a look at this!

(I want to burn all the sturddlefish with fire and pretend it never existed)

Lovely stuff. What do you make of this abomination?

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Update shocker: It was the second time the student had been caught installing a vending machine without permission!