Daohan "Rex" Jiang

I grew up learning simplified, so might have messed up different systems. IMAO merging characters was probably not a great choice in simplification as it created more characters with multiple meanings and/or pronunciations…

As I remember, the traditional character for “dry” is 乾, that for “to do” and “stem” is 幹 (as in 樹幹), and “interference” is 干 (as in 干擾, 干涉)。 In simplified Chinese they’re all merged into one (干). From the English note I thought you meant the second.

This TA responded incredibly here…it’s ridiculous what this situation is turning into

The character in the 2nd column from right (干) is a simplified one (the traditional would be 幹, as I remember), isn’t it? Yet the book is also using some traditional characters (like 訂 instead of 订). A mixture system?

Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?

Let's see how many of my guesses are correct! It's actually fun to try to guess, though I only expected to do so before the show's aired but not while watching. I'm also looking forward to @tetzoo.bsky.social writing a more thorough 🧵.

Mounted skeleton of a short-faced bear of species Arctodus simus. Displayed at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Ep 5:
The sea cow was Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), I suppose? The bear that tried to attack it should be Arctodus simus (skeleton in the photo👇).
Homotherium again! This time hunting mammoth.
At last, the North American saber-tooth had to be Smilodon fatalis.

Little to say for Ep 3😶 , so jumping to Ep 4.
The saber-tooth cats seem to be another species of Homotherium, and the otters they fought seem to be Enhydriodon.
The armadillos in the ep were Doedicurus. IMO they deserved to be called by name to be distinguished from Glyptodon.

Fossils of prehistoric mammals displayed at the Field Museum of Natural History. Near the center of the photo is mounted skeleton of Glyptodon. Standing behind the Glyptodon on hind legs is mounted skeleton of Megatherium.

Ep 2:
IDK what the South American canines were.
The giant sloth, I assume, was Megatherium.
The giant armadillos seem to be Glyptodon (photo).
The giant stork should be Leptoptilos robustus (in the photo, behind Glyptodon).
S. populator again.
No confidence in the terror birds.

Life-sized reconstruction model of a Homotherium, displayed at La Brea Tar Pits & Museum.

A reconstruction model of Smilodon populator displayed at the Shanghai Natural History Museum. Photo was taken in 2016.

Ep 1: The sloth was probably Megalonyx (genus of Sid from Ice Age). The saber-toothed cats going after wooly rhinos were Homotherium, and those after Macrauchenia were Smilodon populator. Life-sized models in the photos👇

The 5 eps of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge indeed cured my soul in this miserable November. With many animals never addressed by a genus or species-level name, I kept making (hopefully educated) guesses about their identities based on my limited paleo knowledge. A 🧵 ahead for my guesses...

Hopefully you'd be writing a thread going thru species that appeared in the show? Many were only referred to by common names shared by more than one genera (such as "saber-toothed cat" or "(ground) sloth").

The wrong sub can be confusing & misleading to Chinese audiences. Even if they can understand the English, most aren't familiar w/ US units or how to convert. Without later contexts, I'd also have misunderstood. I don't think whoever in charge of the narration script made a great decision. 2/2

My only complaint about #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is the "minus 50 degrees" at the beginning. It's Fahrenheit but not explicitly said to be. Only later I realized they aren't using metric. Traditional CN & JP sub converted to roughly correct Celsius (-45), but simplified CN weirdly gave -10. 1/2

Sorry to hear you’re in this tough situation…

The remote (but not too remote) reason why I’m here now.

这么多人觉得罪犯领导的政党能减少犯罪，这个社会果然还是不正常。

Since it’s about paleo, I couldn’t help being reminded of THAT Marsh…Fortunately, not him… 😂

They genuinely absolutely definitely want to destroy me. How can I be willing to be there anymore?

The Nanotyrannus of phylogenomics 😂 but apparently less attractive to ‘netizen scientists’ due to theological/technical barrier.
(Attaching a comb jelly photo I took—they’re amazing!)

November is my worst month and I knew it

The color scheme is based on its close relative Sinosauropteryx, I believe, which was inferred from preserved melanosomes.

Sinocalliopteryx may also be called “raptor-swallowing” as dromaeosaurid leg bones were found in the holotype’s stomach.

Sadly my cellphone couldn't take a clearer video at that distance... I used to keep such video clips as personal collections, but this time I feel like making it visible.

YouTube video by Rex Jiang Sword-tailed Newt Consuming a Dragonfly

An observation from almost a year ago. An #Okinawa sword-tailed #newt (Cynops ensicauda popei) was consuming a dead dragonfly. Several others approached during this but didn't get a bite. Associated iNat observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

youtu.be/o9d-0hufDfI

That’s very lucky! (so long as it didn’t rush towards you 😂)

Going to save my soul in a stressful November…

Immigrants with health conditions may be denied visas under new Trump administration guidance Foreigners seeking U.S. visas might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a directive from the Trump administration.

I already decided that I don't wanna go to US in near future, yet this regime keeps giving me more reasons for it. The blatant ableism is a new one of them.
abcnews.go.com/Health/immig...

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

“In particular”

Even for sci comm, the turkey 🦃 reference isn't necessarily ideal as the audience may not be familiar with turkey anyway...To my kid self, it wasn't as straightforward as simple dimensions in (centi)meters, since turkey isn't a common meat animal in China.