Caleb Gordon

Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661573v1

Thanks Lauren! Much appreciated :)

Many thanks to @the-node.bsky.social for hosting this story and to @noonanlab.bsky.social (especially Reem Abu-Shamma and Jim Noonan) for their interviews and feedback!

Hybrid brains and the search for what makes us human - the Node It lives. It lives! What lives, you may ask? Well, somewhere in a lab at Yale University, one young scientist has stuck human brain cells and chimp brain

Hey BlueSky! Want to learn more about some almost literally mind-bending brain research being done by @noonanlab.bsky.social?

Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.

Thanks for this shout-out, @rwburroughs.bsky.social! I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I hope it did your original article justice 😎

Thanks so much Armita!

Can simple #algorithms tell cryptic species apart?
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.

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#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology

Thanks for letting me write this, @sicbjournals.bsky.social! I hope Burroughs et al. enjoy it!

Huge congrats, Xavier! Well deserved!

I also fear there will be a Lost Generation of scientists & researchers w/ these massive cuts, esp current trainees & #ECR

Stripping away funding is quick, but short-sighted. It will set us back many years

We must support #science, it is one of the very best things #America does!

#Medsky
#Scisky

Thank you so much, Armita! I’m so glad to hear that my enthusiasm survived grad school.

I’m grateful for this kind post and really do appreciate all your generous help throughout the process :)

Thanks Jeanne!! I appreciate it :)

Thanks so much, @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Much appreciated :)

Ooh exciting! Can’t wait to read it.

Hey BlueSky! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation on Monday, Feb 24 from 1–2pm US ET. Message me for Zoom info if you’re interested!

@virtpaleo.bsky.social Your YouTube Slicer tutorials have been a big help over the years. Many thanks!

Certainly! Now added :)

I only just started using Zotero but I love it so far. The browser plug-in is great, and you can drag and drop PDFs into the app to get full citations. I also like how easy it is to organize citations and export bibliographies (Click selection, right-click > Create Bibliography from Collection).

Ooh psyched to see it! In the meantime, I’ll add him to the starter pack 😎

On it!

Added ✅ thanks Ryan!

Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.

Please add anyone I missed!

go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww

Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.

Awesome new paper out on bromalites and the ecological expansion of dinosaurs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see fossilized digestive remains getting the love they deserve! 💩🦖

Exciting! Congrats, @curioussengi.bsky.social!