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

Very nice!

I confess, I use my own scripts for printing trees: but I have a very paleo focus to what I want illustrated. Still, I’ve used FigTree when teaching and I’ll probably use PearTree in the future.

I look forward to the first partridge phylogeny rendered in PearTree.

This likely explains why he got a majority positive reactions from the people who saw it: the audience was even more nonrandomly drawn from supporters than usual.

Cambrian Forever!

Someone needs to explain Vatican I to Homan…

… awful for his wife and daughter, in some ways I feel even worse for his very devoted cats: they'll never understand why he's not there. 😿

I am really sad to learn that Hans-Dieter Sues died this weekend. It was (insofar as I'm aware) completely out of the blue. I'll always be indebted to him for the support that he offered while I was at the Smithsonian: he probably saved my career going to bat for me.

And although I know this is…

That’s close to the proportion of Americans who feel that the wrong side won the Civil War.

Now there's a bar over which one can trip...

Didn't the Swedes and Russians play ping-pong with that region since before "Sweden" and "Russia" were really things?

My favorite is when 'friends' ask: "Where did you publish your stuff about XXX" from a talk that I gave 5+ years ago and that I still have not found time to write up.

Seriously, do you want to put more salt on your serrated rusty knife?

There are great Ordovician & Silurian fossils from all of them, so they must all be beautiful!

Heh, I don’t think that anyone has made “value” decisions based on ST performance since Jim Hendry got sacked!

Sieg heil, baby.

I envision it meditating with a mantra of “tree… tree… tree…”

I expect that one of the last headlines that I will read before I croak will be something along the lines of “Will this be what finally causes the downfall of President-for-Eternity Zombie Trump?”

The Woodstock 'generation' & its follow up (people too young for Vietnam or pre-Roe America, but old enough to get white collar jobs before Reagan) was one of the most liberal groups in US history. Their liberalism is dated, but they also helped fight for the rights now being lost. They remember.

Siri: show me a rhetorical question…

Only on matters that affect them financially, though. Everything that takes us closer to a Medieval Pageantry with Jim Crow rules will be fine.

Oh, and that demographic is the only one not giving Trump an unfavorable rating in the most recents surveys I’ve read.

Americans born in the ‘60s through early ‘70s have been well to the right of the people in the ‘40s & ‘50s since we started voting. Call us GenSuX.

Mutc’s law not withstanding, even Bush II would have gotten into big trouble for this.

The last two Game of Thrones books were so bad that I’m not sure I’ll even read the next one if (and that’s a big “if”) it ever comes out. At some point, Martin became more interested in “world building” than in storytelling.

Platyceratids will see this and tremble...

I got three things done this week that have been hanging over my head for a month, and now I have this strange sensation of not wanting to puke…

I look at it the other way around: nothing screams “active trend” quite like polyphyly!

@daveyfwright.bsky.social

Can I learn this trick???

We actually started using “pig dog” as an faux (and the real) insult as middle schoolers. But that turned out to be insulting to both pigs and dogs… 🤡

Amusingly, the biggest selling issue of Playboy for a while *was* for the interview. John Lennon’s first in-depth interview after coming out of retirement was with them and it was on the newstands when he was murdered.