Promoting yourself as a 4th generation immigrant is...being an American, right?

Fleagle, in describing Australopithecus, "As a genus, it is unquestionably a paraphyletic wastebasket taxon."

And this is the sound that a grapevine makes after being cut: static.nytimes.com/podcasts/202...

This is the sound a tomato plant makes when it does not have enough water, i.e., is "thirsty" static.nytimes.com/podcasts/202...

The discovery that Nanotyrannus is a distinct species from the T-rex indicates complex food web and interspecies interactions in the Dinosaur world. This research was funded by NSF post-doc grants, which were just archived, i.e., they're no longer available.

news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/t...

Yale Undergraduates: great opportunities for fully funded summer research opportunities, including one with owl monkeys! yibs.yale.edu/sures-projects

"The American public is not satisfied with old things, however good they may be." - A.W. Livingston, the man attributed with bringing the first tomato domesticates to the US consumer market, en masse.

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

Happy Chompsgiving!

In the past four decades, the term heirloom has evolved from an icon of the local-food movement to a designation for tomatoes with distinctive features that command premium prices. - Bryant, 2022

All NSF DDRG programs have been "archived," meaning that they are not accepting solicitations. This grant funded all of my laboratory work, and I would not have been able to conduct my dissertation without it.

sister told me to set up a storygraph account

Do you think anyone in my "Endangered Foods" class will notice that the rubric adds up to 101 total points 🙃

Post-doc position with James Higham at NYU looking at the effects that hurricanes have on aging and how sociality may mitigate these effects.

bioanth.org/jobs/post-do...

This paper just came out in Folia, and it shows that there is more variation in invertebrate nutrition than we previously thought. Important for nutritional ecologists out there.

brill.com/view/journal...

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

I've been on a twitter break since the Elon takeover, but it's time to reenter the conversation 💕 I'm wrapping up my PhD, "Wild white-faced capuchin nutritional goals and fitness in a changing climate" and looking for a post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃