I... am not so conflicted about disagreeing with this ship. The scene where she went to Brocket Hall was so cringey to me because it was literally making her out to be in love with her dad (since Melbourne was her father figure in real life). I guess the choice to add that romantic tension is understandable, but I…

I wish I was more I could do for you and your family than say, “Hang in there!” But the irony was not lost on me when I had my immigration interview on the day before the inauguration, after waiting almost 7 months even after living in the US for essentially my whole life, and being Canadian. It is hard enough to come…

No one needs an excuse to binge watch on Netflix, but now there is one nonetheless.

You forgot Rakugo

Just wanted to boost this! I went to a seminar last fall on the topic of violence vs. these kinds of disorders, and the speaker made it clear that people with mental disabilities or psychological disorders are no more likely to commit violent crime than the general population. It actually does increase upon leaving…

Is it still by the Hall of African Animals? It really needs to go in a better place imo (but then again the organization of the older exhibits is a mess in general).

whoa Trump got junk in the trunk #datass

Yeah that’s what I meant. I went and looked it up on Wikipedia right after I posted the comment. I don’t work with fossils, or even with vertebrates, so I’m always amazed at how paleontologists can build trees based on morphological evidence, much of it difficult to interpret, alone.

Thank you, I was about to say the same thing about the first paragraph. Pterosaurs were weird but they weren’t obscure oddities like it made them out to be. Also didn’t know that we were settled on their relationships now.

I’m sorry Rae but this was not the write-up that it could have been covering this article. You’re right in that the whole point of the publication was to describe a new species of the pterosaur family Azhdarchidae that deviates from what we have so long considered as the typical body plan of that family. But the…

Is she really faculty though? She’s listed as department manager but doesn’t appear under the list of actual faculty.

I realized this afternoon during the press conference why it is that I hate Donald Trump so much whenever he speaks. It isn’t his tiny vocabulary, or his annoying voice, or even those weird things he does with his shrimp fingers and his puckering anus mouth.

Very creative gif usage here

No two snowflakes are quite alike, but the most special snowflakes of all are orange.

I’m not sure what to make of this paper, since I don’t know the reputation of Cretaceous Research or how these findings have been received by other paleontologists right now. But I think that creating a new taxonomic order for this insect based on an unusually shaped head, weird pronotal glands, and odd thoracic setal…

You can read the whole thing on his ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311881350_An_exotic_insect_Aethiocarenus_burmanicus_gen_et_sp_nov_Aethiocarenodea_ord_nov_Aethiocarenidae_fam_nov_from_mid-Cretaceous_Myanmar_amber

I just want to point out that you can read the full paper on the author’s ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311881350_An_exotic_insect_Aethiocarenus_burmanicus_gen_et_sp_nov_Aethiocarenodea_ord_nov_Aethiocarenidae_fam_nov_from_mid-Cretaceous_Myanmar_amber

Yeah I was so confused by that, was he saying that he’s too cool to be abused?

I just want to note that some federal health and science agencies have started rogue, unauthorized Twitter accounts. https://twitter.com/StollmeyerEU/lists/twistance/members

Some of the health and science agencies have started their own alternative Twitter accounts: