Anthony (Tony) J. Martin

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Made you a podcast episode to chop veggies to and commute to family to this holiday season. 🍠🥦🧅🥕

Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment

Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532

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Wow, that qualifies as a turkey latrine! Thanks for sharing & giving me something new to look for on the Georgia coast & in the mountains where turkey roam (& poop).

I’ll have what she’s having

a woman is standing in front of an american flag and making a funny face . Alt: A woman standing in front of an American flag and bald eagle symbol, saluting with utmost patriotic seriousness.

Thank you very much for your scientific service, Danny!

"YOUR TURKEY IS A DINOSAUR" infographic, featuring the skeletons of a Velociraptor and turkey, helpfully labelled with osteological features which turkeys (and all birds) inherited from their theropod ancestors. It's grayscale for easy printing at home!

I made an infographic for this very reason!

Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge

Paleontologist Barbie™ (the African-American edition, not the blonde yt one) lying on her stomach to get a close look at three-toed* wild turkey tracks in white, fine-grained sand of a coastal dune on Cumberland Island, Georgia (USA). *Actually four toes: look for the imprint in the back of each track, which is from the hallux ("big toe," but little in this case).

Special bonus content on the preceding blog post: Paleontologist Barbie™ tracking these avian theropods (a.k.a. "wild turkeys") across the dunes of Cumberland Island GA, once again showing why she's not a doll, she's an action figure. 🧪🦃🐾🦖

Tracking Wild Turkeys on the Georgia Coast Of the many traditions associated with the celebration of Thanksgiving in the U.S., the most commonly mentioned one is the ritual consumption of an avian theropod, Meleagris gallopavo, simply known…

Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾

www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...

Labeled diagram of a turkey (Meleagris gallipavo) skeleton, titled "The Dinosaur on the Thanksgiving Table: Shared derived traits of various clades as seen in Meleagris gallipavo," with 12 anatomical traits identified.

I told my students the same, and that they should use @arctomet.bsky.social's helpfully labeled diagram to steer the Thanksgiving-dinner conversation back to something that really matters, such as theropod evolutionary lineages. 🧪🦃🦖

As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.

Nice to see your lovely critters making themselves at home in your new environ. Somehow missed your move during all of the [gestures wildly at world aflame]. Whereabouts are you, Splash, & the quadrupeds now?

Done. Thanks for suggesting!

three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory

A cave man tells stories around a fire on the left, a scout leader tells stories around a fire on the right. Illustration by Jordan Collver

We’ve now produced a toolkit to guide science communicators through (critically) using certain strategies. It has been beautifully illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social (in collab with @rikworth.bsky.social) and can be downloaded as a PDF here:

livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/

It's the most wonderful day of the year for paleo-philes: #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge Day! Based on the preview & advance buzz, looks like a stunning series about our much-more-recently departed megafaunas. 🧪🦥🦣🦘🦬

Herbivore Dinos grazing in a Cretaceous Period paradise! Illustration from my book: DINOSAURS

Link to buy here: a.co/d/b5XhJp2

#prehistoric #dinosaurs #fossil #fossiladdict #paleontology #evolution #sciart #paleoart

Book piracy is so specifically weird to me. We have whole buildings where you walk in and get books for free. And if they don't have what you want, often they will find it for you. And libraries help authors. And libraries build communities.

We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.

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Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Yup. Authors should talk more about how most of us make a living not writing so we can live to write. I'm very lucky to get paid for 9 months of university teaching (with benefits), which allows me to write during not-teaching times. Otherwise advances & royalties are too small & rare. 🧪📚✍️ #Booksky

One point I've tried to emphasize this semester with my #ENVSCOMM25-2 students is how "skeptic" is too generous when the word "denier" is right there.

Headline saying “Fossil vomit contains new species of pterosaur from Brazil”. For additional info apart from the joke, the sub-headed says: “Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous”

Roses are red
That dino looks ill

YouTube video by Nick Longrich Evolution and Paleontology Where Did the Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Come From

Most dinosaurs were wiped out by the impact of the giant Chicxulub asteroid ~66 Ma. It may have been the largest impact in the past two billion years— so where did it come from? The evidence suggests it began life 4,500 Ma out past the orbit of Jupiter.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFBy...

¡Genial! Mucha suerte con tu presentación, y por favor saluda a mis paleo-amigos.

Somewhere in the digital catacombs of an external hard drive is an essay I wrote in 2001 titled "Leaf Blowers: Spawn of Satan." Regardless of whether I ever see it again, I still stand by its spirit and intention.