A big component of paleontological work revolves around identifying morphological characters that diagnose distinct species in the fossil record. But therein lies…
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post Shell Shock! Can morphometrics distinguish fossil turtle species?Read more
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post Open science: Sharing is caring, but is privacy theft? by David Mehler and Kevin WeinerRead more
Open Science (OS) is a movement toward increased sharing among scientists of their data, their materials, their computer code, their papers, and…
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post Snakes. Why did it have to be giant snakes?Read more
Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every…
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post Reaching the Masses: #MuseumSelfieDay, National Fossil Day 2018, and Social MediaRead more
Today is #MuseumSelfieDay, a hashtag event on Twitter that encourages people to visit their local museums, be it art, history, or natural…
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post Can we trust statistics in fMRI studies?Read more
Functional MRI (fMRI) is one of the most celebrated tools in neuroscience. Because of their unique ability to peer directly into the…
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post Australian Students Grapple with Citizen ScienceRead more
Tis the season for student projects! As a postdoc I’m not teaching this year and I’m not pining for a pile…
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post My first time as an iGEM judgeRead more
The 2017 iGEM competition had over 5,000 student participants who all worked for months to design, build, and test their own synthetic biology…
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post Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017: Gondwanagaricites magnificusRead more
Continuing our march through the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017… We’re now in the top five, as determined by…
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post A Brief Prehistory of the CranberryRead more
Every species on Earth has a story. My job as a paleontologist is to read and retell that story, so that we have a…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: October 13, 2017Read more
Featured Image: Avicranium renestoi. Art by Matt Celeskey. From Pritchard and Nesbitt (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils…
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post Ada Lovelace DayRead more
Portrait of Ada Lovelace by British painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1836) In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I’m reflecting on the power…
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post Upcoming National Fossil Day Events, Part 3Read more
Howdy folks! National Fossil Day is this week (October 11, 2017), and with that annual celebration comes many events across the U.S. Dozens of museums are…