@deadbovids.bsky.social
SUNY Oneonta Assistant Professor living in Haudenosauneega Paleontologist, anthropologist, naturalist, forager. Views my own π³οΈβπ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Amber Jelly Fungus and Partridgeberries! Time to make gummy candy
The forest is waking up again
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every πͺπΊ country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
Identifying bovid teeth is literally my career, so I'm happy to help!
They're back!
So shifting the financial burden from the consumer to the producer wasn't a good idea after all?
Open access makes the rich get richer
#science #publishing #academia π§ͺπΊοΈ
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Yes, I would say definitely bison! Cattle are almost indistinguishable but your tooth looks far too old to be a cow.
Yes, casts
Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going.
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Where is it from? It's a bovid, and based on its size and the basal pillar, I would say bison or cow
Setting up the Lucy skeleton for my Climate Change and Anthropology class!
#FossilFriday
I was talking about Solnhofen at work this week, so for #FossilFriday here are some rather gorgeous fossils from the site on display at the Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin π¦π§ͺπ¦
American Robin!
Your annual reminder that most University libraries host accepted proofs for FREE! It doesn't always have to be a choice between
1.) Publishing behind paywalls,
2.) Supporting predatory open access journals, or
3.) Giving small fortunes to companies like Springer and Elsevier.
This sounds awesome!
Just a little guy
I normally post wildlife for #MammalMonday but today you all get my little indoor mammal
Gotta get that low Ξ΄13C
White pine cone and apple jelly--because sometimes I just feel like eating a tree
Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster
"Given the evidence we have already about the extensive geographic range of Denisovans...how could we not at least entertain the possibility that Denisovans also made it to Australia?" @tommyhigham.bsky.social in The World Before Us.
We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE.
But Iβve moved on to prosecute ICE yβall. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is simocyon, a puma-sized carnivore from the miocene and pliocene that was related to red pandas. like red pandas, simocyon had a wrist bone called a radial sesamoid, which functioned as a false thumb to aid in a semi-arboreal lifestyle
(art by mauricio anton)
Farewell, Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Holding hands with Ardipithecus for #FossilFriday
I say this as someone who once had huge respect for Beth--I dreamed of doing a Ph.D. with her when I was 19. So disappointing to see good scientists sell out to tech bros.
"Beth Shapiro stated that the three animals are "grey wolves with 20 edits" as purportedly stated by the company "from the very beginning", acknowledging that it is impossible to bring back an extinct organism"
These are deeply unserious people and even using the term "science" here is misleading.
"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."
Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils π€―π§ͺπ
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
