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Check out my outreach! The only person on paleo YouTube to talk about brachiopods! https://www.youtube.com/RaptorChatter Ask me about the Northern Arizona University gartersnake lab!
No worries. I stole it from a group chat for the video lol
31.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh, apparently @raptorchatter.bsky.social already made that joke. youtu.be/Ecr4N-m9ChU?...
31.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our video looking at the recent paper critiquing the claim that a dire wolf was cloned is out!
youtu.be/R8p7pb7fTd0
I have what I think is a solid guess, and if so I'm stoked. But also if not I'm sure it'll be interesting.
15.09.2025 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our video on the new 'spinosaurid' material from Peru is up! youtu.be/2-Oi90KGbh0?...
08.09.2025 19:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our website is live! Check out our paleo themed merch!
raptorchatter.com
I have to assume Mr. Xkcd was subject to massive tectonic forces which overturned the beds.
29.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our video on Shri rapax with commentary on niche partitioning is out! youtu.be/xQGMlfOGgQQ
29.07.2025 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An image of a classic paper by taphonomists Mairi Best and Susan Kidwell
An image of a Google AI description of a completely fictional (as far as I can tell) architectural firm named "Best & Kidwell" that is supposedly based in Panama City. It even includes a picture of one of the partners(?).
Incredible example of how AI is destroying Google search: working on a paper on mollusk shell assemblages in Panama so I tried to search for the classic paper on the left (which I know about because I was a field assistant). Instead Google AI hallucinated a completely fictional architectural firm.
12.06.2025 16:47 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Megaraptorchatter!!!!
07.05.2025 16:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In two days I'm gonna be a published author. Feels surreal.
05.05.2025 02:53 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reading, however slowly you do it, is thinking. And you cannot do research if you do not think.
Undergrads, I can understand.
But if a grad student uses LLMs to summarize papers, just leave, go and give the funding and space to someone who actually wants to learn something.
Whoa, you mean the people who had serious questions about this were right to question them the entire time, and just saying "trust me bro" isn't a good response to criticism.
09.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's a few changes I like, but the Spinosaurus as a whole is pretty awful. I also wouldn't say accurate for most of the changes though either.
06.02.2025 05:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Look, it's the main thing I wanted this Christmas!
21.12.2024 22:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 080000 per year x 4 security guards is still less than actually providing healthcare.
Once again it's not about morality it's about profit. As soon as UH posted for a new CEO before the body was cold it felt like this would happen.
A second oarfish has hit California.
15.11.2024 20:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the best keynotes for any conference I've been to. If not the best.
30.10.2024 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never thought I'd compliment Ohio, but at least the Cincinnati airport had a nice little "welcome to Cincinnati" sign in the airport for all the paleontologists.
29.10.2024 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Getting covid and then bronchitis just before the SVP meeting sucks, in part because I had to slow down poster design, and now I'm paying extra to get them in time.
23.10.2024 22:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If people are really interested in chatting about svp abstracts I will say you can chat about specifically page 414 on this post.
21.10.2024 06:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I said it on the cursed site, but he didn't even tell me he was taking a photo! I guess I was actively showing people fossils though, which is one of my favorite things to do!
17.10.2024 04:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A nicely lit Postosuchus cast for national fossil day, while volunteering with Petrified Forest!
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