Thomas Hegna

Okay. So Lingula would probably win against any rudist, as long as it managed to kick itself in the right direction with its pedicle.

So the remote control will be able to control it. Without the wheels, the remote is useless.
It's a little toddler RC car. This brach will not win any races. Just like every other brachiopod that ever was.

Coming soon: The Trilo-bot 2.0®

I bring you the latest advance in lophotrochozoan technology:
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New paper out describing the first fossil ovaries and unfertilized eggs in a primitive horseshoe crab. #paleontology #xiphosura #ordovician

SUNY Fredonia alum Jasper Glow helped with the assembly. Ishaan Rangnekar and Fiona Rigby helped with the digital cutting.

Purchased the model on sketchfab from the Cleveland Museum. Cut it into 90 printer-sized pieces. Voilà.
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So, Tom, how have you been procrastinating the arthropod cuticle preservation paper? Oh, you know . . .
#Devonian #dunkleosteus #3dprinting

Proper signage is key in an academic building.

Our Debate Over Higher Ed Has Lost the Plot (opinion) We need to reorient the national conversation, Lynn Pasquerella writes.

"A successful college education is measured not by what its graduates believe but by what they can conceive." Important piece by Lynn Pasquerella on @aacu.org's Call for Constructive Engagement statement and higher ed leaders' response to the present crisis.

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Oops. Forgot the hashtags. #crustacea #paleontology #devonian #clamshrimp

New paper out! Open Access!
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And the links the student found, while looking superficially plausible if you visit them, have addresses that contain words like 'celebrity cruises'? Do they think we were born yesterday? Does this ever work? 2/2

Academic folks: Our departmental page has a 'links' page. Does anyone else get frequent emails from 'teachers' who have a student who has 'found our links useful' and wants us to add links that the student found? 1/2 . . . .

I don't even think a modern car would fit through the renovated doorway of Houghton.

That was fun. Let's do it again some time. Now, if I could only persuade you to look for Pabian's Concavicaris specimens in Lincoln . . .

Consider my training--you can figure out exactly who coined this turn of phrase.

@peterjwagner3.bsky.social Did you see this?

For the intrepid: Kobayashi, T. 1942. On the Dolichometopidae. Journal of the Faculty of Science Imperial University of Tokyo. Sec. 2 6: 141-206.

Found it. Kobayashi 1942 put Poliella wasatchensis into Bathyuriscus.
In the same paper, Clavaspidella wasatchensis is moved to Athabaskia.
No genus level synonomies here, just shuffling of species between genera.

Now, does A. wasatchensis = Poliella or Clavaspidella? That is harder . . .

Confusingly, both Athabaskia and Bathyuriscus are in the same family (Dolichometopidae). Clavaspidella and Poliella are also in that family. That means Kochina wasatchensis is NOT the trilobite you are looking for (plus, the preglabellar field is way to long).

Resser can be used as a verb. I.e., they really ressered up the taxonomy of that group.

Associate professor Thomas Hegna gave a talk titled: "Teaching Critical Thinking on a Flat Earth." His presentation detailed his use of flat Earth myths, in a general education science class, to help students to think more critically.

At the recent NE-NC GSA conference, Syd Lamberton, a senior at SUNY Fredonia, displayed her poster, titled Looking for Critical Minerals in Carboniferous Clays Beneath Coal Deposits in Pennsylvania: A Multipronged Approach. 1/4
#SUNYFredonia #geology #undergraduateresearch #gsaconnects

Students shine in geological conference State University of New York at Fredonia science students presented research at the spring regional Geological Society of America meeting. The seven students represent the largest cohort of SUNY Fredo...

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The Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs has a new Cambro-Ordovician volume out. Has anyone seen a table of contents? Some pdfs are already on researchgate.net
#cambrian #ordovician #trilobites #paleontology #palaeontology