Lars Schmitz
@ecomorph.bsky.social
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Put together my thoughts about how to be a scientist in a world where it feels like the creationists have won
The creationists are winning. Here’s what we scientists can do about it
Clouds over Life Sciences South at the University of Idaho, where I earned my PhD. (Flickr, jby) In my first year of graduate school at the University of Idaho, I joined a bunch of my colleagues in…
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January 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Put together my thoughts about how to be a scientist in a world where it feels like the creationists have won
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"Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining."
This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.
This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.
Extinction of experience among ecologists dlvr.it/THHFk2
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
dlvr.it
January 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining."
This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.
This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.
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Matamales-Andreu, R., Kammerer, C.F., Angielczyk, K.D. et al. Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun 15, 10346 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids - Nature Communications
Gorgonopsians were sabre toothed therapsids, a group that is ancestral to mammals. The authors here describe a gorgonopsian from the early–middle Permian of Mallorca, suggesting that therapsids origin...
doi.org
December 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Matamales-Andreu, R., Kammerer, C.F., Angielczyk, K.D. et al. Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun 15, 10346 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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New #MiddleSchool #Education resource! Along with @nocturnetwork.bsky.social's Education & Outreach Team, I'm proud to share this science lesson ft. #3Dmodels made from #CTscans (some from my #ForelimbHomology collection + fun new ones!)
Download via QUBEShub! 🦴🐒🦅🐍🦎🐧
qubeshub.org/publications...
Download via QUBEShub! 🦴🐒🦅🐍🦎🐧
qubeshub.org/publications...
December 10, 2024 at 3:49 PM
New #MiddleSchool #Education resource! Along with @nocturnetwork.bsky.social's Education & Outreach Team, I'm proud to share this science lesson ft. #3Dmodels made from #CTscans (some from my #ForelimbHomology collection + fun new ones!)
Download via QUBEShub! 🦴🐒🦅🐍🦎🐧
qubeshub.org/publications...
Download via QUBEShub! 🦴🐒🦅🐍🦎🐧
qubeshub.org/publications...
Reposted by Lars Schmitz
New CRAN Task View: Paleontology
#rstats #dataviz
By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina
URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...
#rstats #dataviz
By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina
URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...
November 27, 2024 at 8:12 AM
New CRAN Task View: Paleontology
#rstats #dataviz
By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina
URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...
#rstats #dataviz
By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina
URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...
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New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaurs—T. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! 🦖 More... 1/2
November 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaurs—T. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! 🦖 More... 1/2
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Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology