Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)

No, football! (🏈 not ⚽️)

Is this where you found it?

Or just living in Nebraska…

Hasn’t that been true since at least the early 20th century?

Well, here’s a response!

That’s one advantage of being a scientist: we left Twitter en masse ~3 years ago.

Even more goes towards shareholders and stock values.

American Exceptionalism: Nobody does the wrong side of a Bell Curve quite like us…

(Really, it’s probably an exponential decay model…)

Is a polite “fuck off and die” an acceptable reply?

But… but… that’s pretty much all I do anymore!

(They also were pretty damned leftwing!)

I cannot wait to make time to read this.

Did the Valkyrie escort him to Valhalla afterwards?

Give me a woo. Give me a hoo…

Seriously, it was good to see some slugging again. The “scoring with situational hitting” tactic ranks up there with “let’s scream loudly while we charge across mine fields into machine gun fire” tactic…

… their parents is the excuse, or so I’ve been told.)

One huge factor is that Southerners still lionize the Confederacy; whereas the Germans, Japanese, Italians & Spanish typically disavow their fascist pasts and often try to hide their own families’ involvements, Southerners celebrate that past and their ancestors. (The Bible tells them to honor…

It would surprise me to learn otherwise.

… Sepkoski’s was when Mike’s & Steve’s papers came out!

I’ve just made myself feel really old…

… birth-death-sampling studies that often are as much about methods as results. Mike Foote had a series of 4 papers from 2001-07 on BDS likelihood methods & their implications that (among other things) showed much tighter MEs than we’d previously thought. But those papers are now as old as Raup & …

Yeah, life on land during the 2nd half of the Permian must have been pretty awful in general.

As for the Big 5 themselves, there hasn’t been much on them as a main topic in a while. Steve Wang had a paper or two revisiting the kill curve idea ~20 years ago. They keep popping up in various…

A little Nazi shit that Terri Hatcher regrets kissing?

And major ecological events for plants & algae can be major evolutionary events for animals.

Of course, plants get to play by totally different rules than we do on ecological time scales, so maybe this oughtn’t surprise us!

… based on whacky arguments.

(That said, this paper seems to be based on plants; those seem to have largely ignored mass extinctions: but people like Doyle & Crane noted that back in the ‘80s, too!)

… well be much more concentrated, too, as recent work suggests that the Hirnantian (Jack’s upper Ashgill) was a very short interval of time. (That could still have 2 pulses, though.)

There always are a small number of gadflies trying to deny that anything really happened: but they usually are…

It’s been updates more than once! The Big Five actually are stronger than there old paper indicates: the end-Devonian, end-Permian & end-Triassic extinctions now are much more concentrated than their work showed: the Signor-Lipps effect basically blurred those backwards. The End-Ordovician might…

So, you’re saying that it’s net gains for the base?

I am pretty sure that SNL used that on a “Dates from Hell” skit…

(This is niche humor…)

My plane ticket had me excited for a moment…