They need to be tried for their crimes. This isn't people bad at their jobs, these are treasonous monsters who need to face consequences for looting the American people and destabilizing the world.

I wonder what it's like to be Mike Johnson. Universally hated and seen as the most incompetent and ineffective speaker in the history of the house. Is it good to be known as the worst person to ever hold the position? Seems like that should carry immense shame.

Why does the GOP continue to blame the Democrats for cheating in elections and paying protesters? Because that's what the GOP does to win and they assume others do it too. Their policies are so unpopular they can only cheat and project their inadequacy onto others.

I started syllabus day this quarter by discussing how LLMs are just pattern recognition. I hope they will at least engage some caution before trying to AI everything.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide.

Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session.

Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

I am glad Trump is backing down but a line was crossed when he explicitly called for a genocide. This is not tolerable, and there is a constitutional remedy. Impeach and remove now.

I call mine usually once a week (more when he proves to be as incompetent as ever) and I have seen him shift his stances based on topics I've berated his voicemail over. Hold their feet to the fire and remind them of your power to canvas end their cushy job.

I spent all my time looking at Maastrichtian teeth so fortunately I never ran into the Hybodon/Meristonoides debacle. Those lil guys sure do need some taxonomic love

And by that I mean the same taxon but flipflopping what we call it and whether Lissodus as a genus existed for over 100 million years

Is it all still Lissodus or Lonchidion?

I moved from Seattle to rural Virginia. I've been missing the food diversity for almost 10 years now T_T

Do I need to change all of my lecture to the Big 6 now? If so, I'm naming them Big Hero 6 and telling my students they were the most devastating events in history. Disney be damned.

I have a final project for my intro to dinosaurs class that includes submitting a first draft and incorporating feedback for their final draft. Some students do projects, some write papers. Its been a lot of fun to read revised essays this quarter. I'm seeing a lot of potential in these writers!

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If it weren't for the fact that I love teaching at a community college with my little Paleo collection, I probably would!

Idk if anyone else watched the Love is Blind reunion, but it's gotta be a wild feeling to sit in a crowd of over 100 people who all trauma bonded the same way and just watch your cohort talk about what a piece of shit you are. Absolute cinema.

Do they need a paleontologist for some fossils?

The way forward is to work on non-dinosaurs. No one gives a shit what we say about our favorite lil idiots.

My frustration will always be that by being inaccurate, we widen the divide between the expert and the layperson. We continue to assume that the audience can't handle big ideas or nuance and to me that just feels like we don't trust our audiences enough.

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!

Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.

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with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

I just want other people to be as excited about esoteric discoveries as I get. Let us broaden our excitement from the usual 15 people to maybe 25 or 50 people lol

If you need someone with a comically large cane to pull you off stage, I'd be interested in applying.

I make it a point to teach the fact that we don't have neanderthal mitochondrial DNA. It's only nuclear. This means reproduction was mostly unidirectional, which is generally expected as populations are becoming more and more reproductively isolated. Signs of diverging species embedded in our DNA!

I just discussed with my students why essentialist and categorical discussions of traits are inherently wrong and that looking at these things from the POV of distributions is more accurate (and that binary divisions often eliminate natural individuals on the tails of their distributions)

That horrific state of the union starts to make sense if you consider that Trump doesn't believe that poor people are actually people. His policies are helping the people he cares about. A small percentage of the most fortunate individuals are thriving at the cost of almost everybody else. Impeach.

Very well deserved! It was an honor to get to write in support of all that you do.

Deeply saddened by the loss of Paleontologist and cat enthusiast, Hans-Dieter Sues. Hans work had a lot of influence on the science that I do, and his kindness had an immense impact on the kind of scientist I am. My heart goes out to his family.

So if companies are getting reimbursed for the tariffs, but we the people (who actually paid those tariffs) don't see a cent, do we get to skip taxes this year? Or can we have that extra money put into public programs that aren't a masked gestapo? Corporations aren't people, what are we doing?

It's almost as if historical decisions have some reasoning behind them and we should evaluate if those reasonings still apply to the systems that persist today.

I think I largely view PCA as an easy fix to a hard problem. There are those that do it well and incorporate as much info as possible into how they present those data. But others dive through axes to find the plot that best fits the story they want to tell.