Artiodactyls are the most diverse large herbivore clade alive today. To maximize plant consumption, they have evolved molar-like premolars. @aus10ash.bsky.social and @jmtheodor.bsky.social here show that molarized premolars in artiodactyls may actually be patterned as molars.
Happy to say that @aus10ash.bsky.social's MSc work on patterning at the p4/m1 boundary is out: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution
David Lynch would have loved Lacrimosa as the in memoriam song so it’s appropriate imho
- I aim to be as happy as gould proving himself wrong mid-career - "...Please consider the empirical discussion as exemplification, not as fulfillment" needs to be put at the front of every paper ever and attached to every reviewer email ever sent period - Arguing that the cutting edge of discovery is not in new techniques and rather is after reconciling new techniques with what we know is cunt
I take discussion group very seriously what do you mean
Jennifer Johnson has not changed. Is still a threat to the trans community. She should be out of the leg!
my personal hell is music bingo and my uncle decided to run it in my childhood home
What a way to end off 2024
Love getting sent links by admin that I sent to them in a previous email and being told to use the link attached
Yes Mary I know that’s what page I’m supposed to be on hence why I emailed you to ask about it 🙃
This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
crying at these student gifts - I love teaching so much 🥹
Vivaldi top artist Spotify wrapped
Can you tell I did candidacy this year
I require a spoof of “what is this feeling” from Wicked but it’s Marsh and Cope during the bone wars
Face card never declines ?
Tell that to my multi-factor authentication app
And nobody in all of oz no wizard that there is or was is ever gunna bring me down seagull screaming
teaching about flight in birds so close to wicked being released feels correct so
what if the true friends are all the hypocones we evolved along the way
Joined the cool kids and made a starter pack - this one with people that research mammalian form and function. Tag yourself or others in the replies and I'll add you!
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ME PLEASE I study the evolution of decoupling, integration, and modularity between mammalian dental development and dental function :)))
SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME
LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY
my partner rarely cries at movies and this 🚬 cried at the end of ratatouille - that is taste
what do you mean they animated the goat to have upper incisors after the goat literally said “we don’t have upper incisors”
I think I just created the most terrifying graphical abstract ever
If someone starts singing during my viewing of the Wicked program
Cynthia Erivo will not be the only one defying gravity
New podcast episode tomorrow !!
Adapt or Die on Spotify and wherever you listen to music !
and what if I did in fact sleep on Agatha All Along
Inner child is v v happy w this pull
me going to buy Pokèmon cards and failing to get any pulls
You are only allowed to make one Lana del Rey joke
Notes for upcoming lecture about crocodylians
almost got run over by a woman who looked exactly like Reba on my run
when she sang “loves her kids and never stops” she really meant it huh
it’s real cute when institutions hold scholarships that will literally be my income for the year until I submit an application for national funding
Like “uh uh uh you don’t get to eat until you try to bring more money to the university 🥰”
I got 99 problems and I probably got more that I’m not diagnosed for yet
Meme describing that a variety of pectoral muscles can be recruited to compensate for a weakened diaphragm. Meme is “look at me I am the captain now”
Car meme “this bad boy can fit so many glomeruli in it” car labeled renal cortex
Bernie sanders meme “instead of asking me to take a knee I am once again asking you to ask me to sit on my tibia”
Panic head cartoon series - “forgetting what the sympathetic nervous system does, finds notes, realizing I used my sympathetic system while worrying about to knowing what my sympathetic system does”
prepping for teaching anatomy means making anatomy memes right
