Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
@peterjwagner3.bsky.social
Computational Paleobiologist, Lord of Chaos & Entropy, Cubs Fan, Estranged Lover of 🐌 & self-proclaimed Bilbo Baggins of Paleontology. Opinions & sarcasm mine & mine alone, but model-based. I block apologists for the South, MAGA, etc. He/Him.
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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
@peterjwagner3.bsky.social
· Nov 10
From Darwins' Day 2019:
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I assumed that was the online edition of Fox News…
OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I assumed that was the online edition of Fox News…
Coupland weeps.
Or laughs.
Or laughs.
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical
unherd.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Coupland weeps.
Or laughs.
Or laughs.
My snowblower died 4-5 years ago, but there have been only a couple of occasions where I missed it. Even when we do get enough snow to merit clearing the driveway, it melts within a couple of days.
Today is an important day in the turning of the seasons: I'm gonna swap the garage positions of the snowblower and the lawnmower.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My snowblower died 4-5 years ago, but there have been only a couple of occasions where I missed it. Even when we do get enough snow to merit clearing the driveway, it melts within a couple of days.
Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory
www.cambridge.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What is nuts is how much “vibe” there is: in the time between elections and inaugurations, people feel “less bad” about the economy, but as soon as a new administration starts, it’s getting worse again!
54% of Americans say the U.S. economy is getting worse, up from 37% at the start of President Trump's second term.
(Economist/@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...
(Economist/@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
What is nuts is how much “vibe” there is: in the time between elections and inaugurations, people feel “less bad” about the economy, but as soon as a new administration starts, it’s getting worse again!
Well, after last night's election results, I have a smidgen of hope again. On a scale of 0 to 10 Polyannas, I'm up to 2 nannoPolyannas.
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Well, after last night's election results, I have a smidgen of hope again. On a scale of 0 to 10 Polyannas, I'm up to 2 nannoPolyannas.
In my lecture on early insect evolution, I showed them remipedes including the "Creature Report!" remipede from Octonauts. I'm not sure if that made very "hip" or very "dated" to the students...
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In my lecture on early insect evolution, I showed them remipedes including the "Creature Report!" remipede from Octonauts. I'm not sure if that made very "hip" or very "dated" to the students...
And yet I still suck at German…
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
And yet I still suck at German…
This is equivalent to asking if the Blue Jays were losing Game 7 a microsecond before Betts grabbed Kirk’s grounder in the 10th…
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is equivalent to asking if the Blue Jays were losing Game 7 a microsecond before Betts grabbed Kirk’s grounder in the 10th…
Remember: chimps really *can* do better than this!
BREAM: Schumer says Republicans are weaponizing hunger
MIKE JOHNSON: Absolutely absurd. Remember -- don't get lost in the facts
MIKE JOHNSON: Absolutely absurd. Remember -- don't get lost in the facts
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Remember: chimps really *can* do better than this!
Mixing Catholics & Southern Baptists/Evangelicals was never going to generate an enduring alliance.
seems like there was an internal civil war brewing within Heritage, which is why Kevin Roberts issued that statement:
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mixing Catholics & Southern Baptists/Evangelicals was never going to generate an enduring alliance.
Another intellectual tool chimps have that MAGA doesn’t…
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Another intellectual tool chimps have that MAGA doesn’t…
How long until Trump announces that Andrew is the rightful King if England?
Lot happening in the world but this is truly a remarkable, and damming, development: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
How long until Trump announces that Andrew is the rightful King if England?
I went to be in the 17th inning (1:30 AM here!) but had the game on my iPhone. I was still awake when the bottom of the 18th began, drifted off, and awoke shortly after the fact.
Before zombie runners, managers would say that the hardest thing about 13+ inning games was making sure that they…
Before zombie runners, managers would say that the hardest thing about 13+ inning games was making sure that they…
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I went to be in the 17th inning (1:30 AM here!) but had the game on my iPhone. I was still awake when the bottom of the 18th began, drifted off, and awoke shortly after the fact.
Before zombie runners, managers would say that the hardest thing about 13+ inning games was making sure that they…
Before zombie runners, managers would say that the hardest thing about 13+ inning games was making sure that they…
Someone’s got to hit a homer or at least a ball on which all the fielders literally fall asleep.
Of course, the batter will probably see that big beautiful pillow that is second base and just “rest his eyes” for a moment…
Of course, the batter will probably see that big beautiful pillow that is second base and just “rest his eyes” for a moment…
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Someone’s got to hit a homer or at least a ball on which all the fielders literally fall asleep.
Of course, the batter will probably see that big beautiful pillow that is second base and just “rest his eyes” for a moment…
Of course, the batter will probably see that big beautiful pillow that is second base and just “rest his eyes” for a moment…
I do vividly remember Pudge’s HR. I had just turned 11 and it was the first time that my parents ever let me stay up to watch WS games. I had to fight to get them to stay up afterwards, because that’s when they replayed the iconic shot of him waving the ball fair!
(Supposedly the producer was…
(Supposedly the producer was…
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I do vividly remember Pudge’s HR. I had just turned 11 and it was the first time that my parents ever let me stay up to watch WS games. I had to fight to get them to stay up afterwards, because that’s when they replayed the iconic shot of him waving the ball fair!
(Supposedly the producer was…
(Supposedly the producer was…
Carlton Fisk probably is rolling in his bed.
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Carlton Fisk probably is rolling in his bed.
Typical piny gods, not getting around to the payback until everyone involved has been dead for decades…
(You’d have to be in at least your mid-70s to really remember the Brooklyn Dodgers.)
(You’d have to be in at least your mid-70s to really remember the Brooklyn Dodgers.)
This is divine punishment for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn btw
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Typical piny gods, not getting around to the payback until everyone involved has been dead for decades…
(You’d have to be in at least your mid-70s to really remember the Brooklyn Dodgers.)
(You’d have to be in at least your mid-70s to really remember the Brooklyn Dodgers.)
I don’t even care that much who wins, and my stomach has knots…
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I don’t even care that much who wins, and my stomach has knots…
I started at the boundary condition where this isn’t possible! (My computer PhD brother is not an AI fan, to put it mildly…)
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I started at the boundary condition where this isn’t possible! (My computer PhD brother is not an AI fan, to put it mildly…)
@sethf.bsky.social: do you have a stump speech? And, yes, my vote can be bought…
In a wild turn of events, mollusks and Seth Finnegan are tied for first place!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
@sethf.bsky.social: do you have a stump speech? And, yes, my vote can be bought…
Reposted by Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daveyfwright.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daveyfwright.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social
As opposed to which other antichrist?
UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell rescinds his support for Trump, suggesting he’s the biblical Antichrist.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
As opposed to which other antichrist?
This is a nice article: on one hand, everything in it is common sense, and you'll already have thought of most of them; but you probably hadn't thought of *all* of them!
I would add one. One simple "cleaning" tip for species is to "spay & neuter" them: you'd be surprised at how often the same…
I would add one. One simple "cleaning" tip for species is to "spay & neuter" them: you'd be surprised at how often the same…
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lewisajones.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is a nice article: on one hand, everything in it is common sense, and you'll already have thought of most of them; but you probably hadn't thought of *all* of them!
I would add one. One simple "cleaning" tip for species is to "spay & neuter" them: you'd be surprised at how often the same…
I would add one. One simple "cleaning" tip for species is to "spay & neuter" them: you'd be surprised at how often the same…
Whew: no mention of any amount of amphetamines being too much…
Column: Coffee can provide some health benefits if you pay attention to how you brew it, when you drink it and what you put in it.
Add no more than 1 teaspoon of sugar and 2 tablespoons of whole milk per cup, Trisha Pasricha, MD advises.
Add no more than 1 teaspoon of sugar and 2 tablespoons of whole milk per cup, Trisha Pasricha, MD advises.
Column | What you put in your coffee can have an outsize impact on your health
Here are 7 science-backed ways to give your coffee a healthy makeover.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Whew: no mention of any amount of amphetamines being too much…