Caleb M. Gordon
@caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social
Vertebrate paleobiologist interested in using AI to understand the history of life on Earth.
PhD @ Yale, Postdoc @ FLMNH.
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PhD @ Yale, Postdoc @ FLMNH.
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Very happy that our new paper on the odd, looped optic nerves of chameleons is now out! It turns out having highly mobile eyes require some pretty specialized connections! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Very happy that our new paper on the odd, looped optic nerves of chameleons is now out! It turns out having highly mobile eyes require some pretty specialized connections! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Across scientific disciplines, US university departments are cutting the numbers of PhD candidates they plan to accept in the current application cycle, for students due to begin in 2026, according to a Nature news article. Some plan to pause admissions altogether. #Academicsky 🧪
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
go.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Across scientific disciplines, US university departments are cutting the numbers of PhD candidates they plan to accept in the current application cycle, for students due to begin in 2026, according to a Nature news article. Some plan to pause admissions altogether. #Academicsky 🧪
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Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661573v1
June 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661573v1
Hey BlueSky! Want to learn more about some almost literally mind-bending brain research being done by @noonanlab.bsky.social?
Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.
Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.
Hybrid brains and the search for what makes us human - the Node
It lives. It lives! What lives, you may ask? Well, somewhere in a lab at Yale University, one young scientist has stuck human brain cells and chimp brain
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May 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hey BlueSky! Want to learn more about some almost literally mind-bending brain research being done by @noonanlab.bsky.social?
Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.
Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.
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Can simple #algorithms tell cryptic species apart?
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
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#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
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#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
May 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Can simple #algorithms tell cryptic species apart?
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
On
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
On
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
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I also fear there will be a Lost Generation of scientists & researchers w/ these massive cuts, esp current trainees & #ECR
Stripping away funding is quick, but short-sighted. It will set us back many years
We must support #science, it is one of the very best things #America does!
#Medsky
#Scisky
Stripping away funding is quick, but short-sighted. It will set us back many years
We must support #science, it is one of the very best things #America does!
#Medsky
#Scisky
A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hey BlueSky! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation on Monday, Feb 24 from 1–2pm US ET. Message me for Zoom info if you’re interested!
February 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Hey BlueSky! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation on Monday, Feb 24 from 1–2pm US ET. Message me for Zoom info if you’re interested!
Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
December 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
Awesome new paper out on bromalites and the ecological expansion of dinosaurs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great to see fossilized digestive remains getting the love they deserve! 💩🦖
Great to see fossilized digestive remains getting the love they deserve! 💩🦖
Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature
Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Awesome new paper out on bromalites and the ecological expansion of dinosaurs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great to see fossilized digestive remains getting the love they deserve! 💩🦖
Great to see fossilized digestive remains getting the love they deserve! 💩🦖