@daveyfwright.bsky.social
Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, & punk rock enthusiast. Assistant Professor & Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. U Oklahoma/Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Macroevolution, phylogenetic methods, echinoderms https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com
Fieldwork on Anticosti Island is underway! Here, I'm collecting Leptaena brachiopods in the tidal flats and my graduate student, Kiera Crowley, is standing next to an erosional scour and tabulate coral rip up clasts near the Ordovician-Silurian boundary
31.07.2025 11:36 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll have more info in a few weeks when I get back from fieldwork but I'll be recruiting 2 graduate students to begin in 2026 (1 PhD, 1 MS). My lab investigates macroevolutionary dynamics using phylogenetic methods & the fossil record. Please share with students having strong research interests!
22.07.2025 14:56 β π 24 π 30 π¬ 1 π 0hello gang, can anyone recommend resources for teaching programming in R to 1st year undergrads in geoscience? All and any tips welcome! π©βπ»ππ
29.07.2025 07:21 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0Okay make that 5 and all but 1 are about crinoids (the 1 involves trilobites which are also pretty cool). No more abstracts from me!
28.07.2025 18:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oops...I meant 4 abstracts! (And yes all still involving crinoids)
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"Look how they massacred my boy" - Vito Corleone
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Three abstracts submitted to upcoming the GSA meeting! You're not going to believe it, but they all focus on crinoids (gasp!) π±
25.07.2025 16:11 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1omg this freaks me out every time I walk by lol
24.07.2025 20:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hadn't thought about that but you're probably correct!
24.07.2025 20:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Beautiful and satisfying to already see in the @paleodb.bsky.social!
24.07.2025 19:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0On a personal note, it's an incredibly satisfying feeling to describe a new fossil species discovered in the field. As a curator & long-time museum worker, I'm used to new discoveries in old collections, but it's really fun to work on a new species resulting from your NSF funded field-based program
24.07.2025 19:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Flexible crinoids are really cool group of rare & morphologically distinct fossil echinoderms. They originated during the Ordovician but substantially increase in diversity, disparity, & abundance in the Silurian after the mass extinction, so a new taxon near the boundary is a significant discovery.
24.07.2025 18:58 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Looks like a great lineup! Of course I'm looking forward to @invertlovekat.bsky.social & @mc-nik.bsky.social's session, but I love sitting in sessions on topics more off my radar, too
24.07.2025 18:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New paper! The 1st publication from our NSF grant investigating local to global biodiversity patterns in marine invertebrates across the O-S boundary is out! Here, we describe a new crinoid from Anticosti Island & use Bayesian tip-dating approaches to quantify uncertainty in its stratigraphic age π§ͺ
24.07.2025 14:20 β π 47 π 8 π¬ 2 π 2
Saw these guys open for the Descendents last night and they absolutely killed it live. So good I bought both their records at the booth. I'm already obsessed with this album.
"I don't wanna be a part of no war machine / got me forced to work but I'm born to party"
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceβforever." -George Orwell, 1984
24.07.2025 01:23 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0"Generative AI, including ChatGPT, is the worst idea in the long, sad history of dumb ideas." -- Ian Malcolm, probably
07.05.2025 05:03 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"I say 'fuck' because thatβs what racism deserves."
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Incredible performance by punk rock legends the Descendents tonight in Oklahoma City! Feeling blessed
23.07.2025 04:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0god i love going to punk rock shows π€
23.07.2025 01:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll have more info in a few weeks when I get back from fieldwork but I'll be recruiting 2 graduate students to begin in 2026 (1 PhD, 1 MS). My lab investigates macroevolutionary dynamics using phylogenetic methods & the fossil record. Please share with students having strong research interests!
22.07.2025 14:56 β π 24 π 30 π¬ 1 π 0Agree this is an excellent essay:
"Oklahoma has been refashioning its cities, courting new talent, and beginning to reverse its long-running brain drain. Oklahoma is a map of Americaβs legacies. It doesnβt pretend to be a blank slate... its history offers a truer, unvarnished portrait of America"
i'm a broken record on this topic but god i love being a paleontologist π§ͺ
15.07.2025 02:01 β π 45 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0I know itβs not popular on social media but I believe in redemption as a possibility and Iβm glad to see there are other folks who do too
20.07.2025 18:35 β π 310 π 32 π¬ 8 π 5i have more respect for people who consult their decisions with a magic eight ball than with chatgpt
20.07.2025 18:29 β π 349 π 109 π¬ 4 π 6Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter would be such a real choice for a MLB walk up song
20.07.2025 01:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didnβt already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.
19.07.2025 17:47 β π 1299 π 309 π¬ 34 π 6Indeed! bsky.app/profile/dave...
19.07.2025 14:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!
18.07.2025 21:39 β π 3768 π 1144 π¬ 66 π 57bsky.app/profile/dave...
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