If you’re at the #AABA conference and interested in hyomandibular anatomy, come stop by my poster describing morphological variation of primate suprahyoid muscles today!

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Wife and I just finished Jurassic World: Dominion after working our way through the previous Jurassic Park/World films.

Worst movie of the batch and that’s after sitting through Fallen Kingdom, a movie about putting a bunch of dinosaurs in a house.

Really not looking forward to flying in a month….

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Beaches on the Gulf of Mexico are experiencing a blizzard 5 months after the gulf water temps hit a new record high.

Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...

Hominins in Europe as far back as 2 million years!

I don’t think subtlety will be the theme of this admin.

Who controls the fish?

I can’t stop thinking about how there’s dinosaur paleontologists in the Jurassic World universe. Surely with their fossils up and moving again they’d need a new title?

Snow is pretty and all but I’m pretty sure being trapped in my house is giving me COVID ptsd in the form of depression. Go away now snow.

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Human populations from Africa have no genetic contribution from Neanderthals and yet have more genetic diversity and have existed for much longer than those who have Neanderthal DNA outside of Africa. This kind of Eurocentric pop science reporting only damages trust in human evolutionary research.

Don’t you mean Der Weinerschnitzel?

Ah yes that time of year where I set out all the holiday things that make me happy to look at only for them to make me instantly angry when our cat won’t leave them alone.

I wonder if the first terrestrial tetrapod’s joints clicked like mine do?

Could I be added please?

First job application submitted. More to come!

The final passage of The Origin of Species.

The Origin of Species is not just a scientifically revolutionary book, it is also beautifully written. This is the final passage and I find it quite inspiring.

#Darwin #Evolution #Science

The disassociation it takes to write a job letter needs to be talked about more.

The amount of texts and calls I received asking for money from a campaign that was actively promoting war criminals and right wing policies, and then also telling me that if they lose it’s my fault for being a baby about genocide.

Now it’s because they didn’t have enough time. No accountability.

This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.

Teaching evolution boosts US students’ science knowledge and career interest For the last hundred years, the teaching of evolution in schools has gradually expanded, but still remains controversial in some US states. In new research, Benjamin W. Arold examines how state-bas…

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Texan children in 2025

Ontogenetic biomechanics of tufted (Sapajus) and untufted (Cebus) capuchin mandibles Objectives Cortical bone geometry is commonly used to investigate biomechanical properties of primate mandibles. However, the ontogeny of these properties is less understood. Here we investigate cha...

Some papers I’ve contributed to this year on the ontogeny of the capuchin masticatory apparatus!

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Lynx rufus skull and hyoid