Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

Just came across this map from the CDC, which contains possibly the most confusing color scheme I have ever seen in a figure.

Source: www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-r...

To maximise I think data unavailable could be crimson and included in the centre of the legend.

Tooth meat, tooth meat, the meat that's a whistle, the whistle you eat!

I know I’m a good reviewer because authors always thank me for my helpful comments.

Re-posting this again as I do some Monday emails.

Something very Hieronymous Bosch about Euthecodon

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Having all your cultural touchstones mummified before your eyes by father chronos is such an indignity.

You can rewind YouTube

Also contributions from Sally Street and Emily Jeffries which I expect to be fab.

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Have just seen that "Humans: The Evolution of a Species" has been formally announced. Not yet seen the whole book, but I did the sections on Inequality; Conflict; Sociality & Food, and my promise to the reader is that the Sociality section is daringly (and very mildly) critical of Dunbar's number.

Thank you Denis that's truly appreciated. Shoot me an email with any recent relevant articles & @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social and I will try to briefly reference them in the response.

If accepted, you get to submit a ranked list of names (4-1) and then the editorial office makes the final decision. Some of those proposals rejected were pretty high up our list - but I think we stumbled upon a v broad interest topic. AFAIK (rightly) noone was turned down from my mat culture piece.

Commentary proposals have been sent out for the target article. It looks like we'll be fielding a large number of commentaries. I have heard from a couple of people who had commentary proposal declined.

If that was you, do accept my apologies & know that you are in extraordinarily good company 😬

a man in a bathrobe is talking to two women and says `` i don t even know what this is ! '' ALT: a man in a bathrobe is talking to two women and says `` i don t even know what this is ! ''

After dipping my toes in the whole genre may not be my bag BUT I'm simply glad to hear it exists so that others may enjoy what I cannot.

What? Why isn't Miss Rachel on Spotify? This is market failure.

My thoughts precisely

Do give my regards to the high lord! Nice to read trash occasionally but I don't think I'll have the constitution for any more fairies for some while.

Very glad that some of that stuff it retconned honestly.

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I have only read the first (my last I think) and publishers note seemed to be "imagine all the most fringe EP hypotheses about mating preferences were true and then amplify them tenfold". Honesty Lynda. Smut!

I recently read a court of thrones and roses because someone I trust recommended it and I literally knew nothing about it except "it's about fairies and I like midsummer nights dream" and let me tell you, I am not the target demographic for this genre of literature my goodness 🫣😱😳

The romantacy genre has done fayfolk and vampires to death and I think it's high time for a neanderthal twilight competitor.

So extremely refreshing to see "we found no evidence of" [charismatic hypothesis] in the abstract of a PNAS paper. Great job this team.

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I've also tried teaching him that while the giraffe is the tallest, the blue whale is the heaviest. Just for some variety. It's not taking. We'll be stuck on giraffes for a while I fear. 🦒

I told him that giraffes were so tall because their necks help them to reach high up foliage; and the lad is worried, bless him, that his own toy giraffe (clearly not the tallest animal in the world) won't be able to eat.

We have decided that if it gets hungry, we can lift it up ourselves!

Be kind. You never know what challenges people are facing.

Nor how many times their toddler as told them the "the giraffe is the tallest animal in the world" over the last 24 hour period.

Just occurred to me: if chickens can distinguish spiky and round, then dinosaurs probably could as well.

#dinosaurlinguistics