Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
@daveyfwright.bsky.social
Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, & punk rock enthusiast. Assistant Professor & Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. U Oklahoma/Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Macroevolution, phylogenetic methods, echinoderms https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com
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Despite incomplete knowledge, the fossil record is amazing. It's a disturbingly easy thought experiment to imagine living in a world where there's no such thing and we would never know about the existence of trilobites or ichthyosaurs. We're so lucky
the rock record giveth, and the rock record taketh away, but fossils remain the only source of direct physical evidence for ancient extinct species in the history of life
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Despite incomplete knowledge, the fossil record is amazing. It's a disturbingly easy thought experiment to imagine living in a world where there's no such thing and we would never know about the existence of trilobites or ichthyosaurs. We're so lucky
Despite incomplete knowledge, the fossil record is amazing. It's a disturbingly easy thought experiment to imagine living in a world where there's no such thing and we would never know about the existence of trilobites or ichthyosaurs. We're so lucky
the rock record giveth, and the rock record taketh away, but fossils remain the only source of direct physical evidence for ancient extinct species in the history of life
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Despite incomplete knowledge, the fossil record is amazing. It's a disturbingly easy thought experiment to imagine living in a world where there's no such thing and we would never know about the existence of trilobites or ichthyosaurs. We're so lucky
this is a good and maybe even holy tradition for all invertebrate paleontologists attending a biology conference
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
this is a good and maybe even holy tradition for all invertebrate paleontologists attending a biology conference
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Saw something that said, don't support generative art, support art made by real degenerates. And I felt that.
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Saw something that said, don't support generative art, support art made by real degenerates. And I felt that.
Beautiful and stunningly accurate
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Beautiful and stunningly accurate
Given your affinities to measuring bivalves I would've guessed the geometric mean!
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Given your affinities to measuring bivalves I would've guessed the geometric mean!
Reposted by Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
Check it out if you're interested in modeling morphological evolution, its impact on fossil phylogenies, and the macroevolutionary inferences derived from them. There's a bit of a cautionary(?) tale about continuous characters in here, too. Can't believe they let me quote Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan!
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Check it out if you're interested in modeling morphological evolution, its impact on fossil phylogenies, and the macroevolutionary inferences derived from them. There's a bit of a cautionary(?) tale about continuous characters in here, too. Can't believe they let me quote Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan!