HeadLab (Jason Head)

Quite troubling:

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS

@reeserichardson.bsky.social

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Hubbell's neutral model of biodiversity is founded on tree inventory data for Barro Colorado Island – which don't fit the model. A better one is the compound abundance distribution involving the geometric series. A preprint of the newly submitted BCI paper is here:

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

A well-deserved award to a brilliant colleague and good friend!

Announcement at the British Academy

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Fantastic to be back in Newfoundland for our research on the early animals of the #Ediacaran

Hi Everyone. This is my first post on Bluesky as I seek to spread excitement about paleontology, animation, anatomy, and (as the current president of) the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! #StuartSumida #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #Paleontology #VertebratePaleontology

Newly Discovered "Bone-Digesting" Cells Help Burmese Pythons Consume Every Last Bit Of Their Prey No wonder they’re taking over the Everglades, although other snakes were found to have these cells too.

Burmese pythons don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the bones as well, thanks to newly discovered cells.

www.iflscience.com/newly-discov...

Dune, Where’s My Car?

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!!

You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site

YouTube video by Mesquite ProjectTeam Inferring Gene Trees in Mesquite 4

A short video showing how to infer gene trees in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/xkAHBRIJ4CU 🧪 #evolbio #phylogenomics
@bembidion.bsky.social

Or finding a regular fry inside a curly fry

Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons - Communications Biology Hindcasted species distribution modelling of baboons illuminates potential refugia across Africa and Arabia, with predicted maxima and minima of habitable ranges pulsed by orbital precession and obliq...

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species The evolution of cold-adapted terrestrial species underwent two main phases. First, the genera of cold-adapted taxa appeared during the Late Pliocene …

The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS Fire is a pivotal aspect of human involvement in the carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of the large-scale human fire use remains uncertain....

Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...

For sauropsids lovers: Two fresh papers map trait spaces of birds, turtles and crocodiles to reveal what disappears when species go extinct

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#trait, #traits, #FunctionalTraits

European mammal turnover driven by a global rapid warming event preceding the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum | PNAS A brief global warming event known as the Pre-Onset Excursion (POE) occurred just before the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56 Mya). The d...

European mammal turnover driven by a global rapid warming event preceding the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ohh, forgot this.
It took SoaceX about 4.5 years to develop Falcon 9. Only Falcon 9...
JFK laid out the goal to land a man on the moon on Sept 12 1962. NASA ran the show and developed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo including developing every step of how to land on the Moon. It was done July 24 1969.

Best three-person rotation backcourt in the history of the game.

The Microwave in 007

This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍

Overlooked lizards emerge as key seed dispersers in Madagascar's unique forests After the island of Madagascar drifted away from India 88 million years ago, isolating it from all other landmasses, its flora and fauna evolved in seclusion. As these transformed into plants and anim...

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Breathless oceans: Warming waters could suffocate marine life and disrupt fisheries Sharks are helping scientists probe worrying oxygen declines

Breathless oceans: Warming waters could suffocate marine life and disrupt fisheries | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Should have been a three-peat dynasty. Robbed by a phantom foul. But I’m not still bitter after 37 years.

What a lovely day.

June 5, 1990: Detroit’s John Salley dunks on Kevin Duckworth of Portland during Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

The Pistons won, 105-99, behind 33 PTS/7 REB/6 AST from Isiah Thomas. Buck Williams had 20 PTS/12 REB for the Trail Blazers.

Feel seen

Snakes on the brain

Amazing, Anjani!