Douglass S Rovinsky, PhD

Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?

Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org

Goddamn Andy Gill was a force of nature

They've always been one of my faves. Used to be in all the palaeo books, and seems like their sun of fame has set.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Amazing!! Looking forward to the output!

As it should be!

Isn’t… isn’t that one of the POINTS of a preprint server?

Better version of the meme.

Unless I find it sticking from my foot like a tiny keratinous lance.

Those damn things hurt!

Well, this just hits harder now, doesn’t it?

That concert was amazing, and what a magnificent way to finally leave the stage.

An icon, indeed.

Lately I've been learning whole songs and recording them as 'records of practice & progress'. The intrepid amongst us can find them on YouTube, I reckon.

It shines a light on things I need to work on & forces me to actually do it. Sometimes.

Oh, & I'm an EXCEPTIONALLY sloppy player!

3/3

Joining a 'working' band in my early 30s catapulted my skill level (which is still low 😂).
Lately I've been trying to get another band together, but things are really slow for us elderly folk. Playing with other musicians force you to level up quickly, especially if they are good!

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I feel you. I've always operated under Imposter Syndrome - and it doesn't help that I've never actually practiced with any discipline. I should be really, really good for how long I've been playing, but here we are...

The best thing I've ever done for my playing is playing with people.
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That Parasaurolophus pose... that's something, alright.

I LOVE these kinds of high-contrast illustrations. Reminds me a lot of Frank Frazetta, or old two-tone picture books.

This is such a cool fossil!

Signal chain is:
Wah > Tuner > Gate [4-cable] > CS-2 > Carcosa > VD400 > BF-2 > TurboRAT > SF300 > Amp (Marshall DSL 40CR)
[fx loop: EQ > DD-20 > 3rd Dimension]
Power is a Cioks DC-7 + 8

Guitar effects pedals velcroed to a PedalTrain pedalboard. The pedals are, in retrospect, a surprisingly monochrome bunch, with only the two Boss pedals (blue and magenta) and the Behringer pedal (orange) - itself a Boss clone, really standing out. At least the wah pedal has polka-dots.

My current board. Been through a lot of iterations, and this has been a total re-build after moving overseas. Still not 100% with it and it's missing some essentials (tremolo, reverb, etc... ), but I'm getting closer to 'ok'.

Such a great song - and so fun to play!

That guitar solo is gorgeously constructed, and really difficult to nail.
Elliot Easton is an underrated beast of a guitar player.

I LOVE the way Teles look and sound - pure rock and roll.

The way they feel, however… it’s like a coffee table strapped across your shoulders.

Is there anywhere I can hear you?

The one thing I am grateful for re: my PhD program was that as a matter of course all my chapters were published along the way. Otherwise they never would have been at all.

I think of all the knowledge ‘locked away’ in unpublished theses and weep.

#academicsky question!

i have some papers i started in my PhD and continued to work on throughout my two postdocs and now am finishing up in my faculty position. what's the current best practices on affiliations in a case like that? all of them? just the PhD? PhD + current?

That is amazing!

That would be amazing!

Same! And then there's the fumbling that happens with your AV equipment if (gods forbid) you do switch between Zoom and Teams on the regular.

"Oh, is another program 'using' my camera? Guess I'll have to restart my computer while everyone else in the meeting waits..."

The only thing worse than Teams is Outlook

Oh absolutely

Her er de mest søgte videregående uddannelser I dag var sidste chance for at søge ind på de videregående uddannelser via kvote 1.

The rankings of Danish bachelor's degree applications have been announced. There is not a single natural science in the top 25. As an associate professor of Vertebrate Zoology at Denmark's largest university, this really surprised me. 🧪🧵 1/12
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

With all of… everything that is going on back there, THIS is what our Congresspeople chose to be concerned with?