Jon from Stated Clearly
@statedclearly.bsky.social
I teach chemistry and evolutionary biology... on the internet.
September 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Scientist:
"This remains an active area of research and ongoing empirical exploration."
Napoleon Dynamite translation:
"We don't flippin' know yet but we're trying. Jeez!"
"This remains an active area of research and ongoing empirical exploration."
Napoleon Dynamite translation:
"We don't flippin' know yet but we're trying. Jeez!"
July 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Scientist:
"This remains an active area of research and ongoing empirical exploration."
Napoleon Dynamite translation:
"We don't flippin' know yet but we're trying. Jeez!"
"This remains an active area of research and ongoing empirical exploration."
Napoleon Dynamite translation:
"We don't flippin' know yet but we're trying. Jeez!"
This lizard is pregnant! I talk about it in the new Stated Clearly animation: Darwin's Monster
youtu.be/CHvclYKy85w?...
These photos are by Dr Rebecca Pyles who studies the evolution of pregnancy and live-birth in reptiles.
youtu.be/CHvclYKy85w?...
These photos are by Dr Rebecca Pyles who studies the evolution of pregnancy and live-birth in reptiles.
June 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This lizard is pregnant! I talk about it in the new Stated Clearly animation: Darwin's Monster
youtu.be/CHvclYKy85w?...
These photos are by Dr Rebecca Pyles who studies the evolution of pregnancy and live-birth in reptiles.
youtu.be/CHvclYKy85w?...
These photos are by Dr Rebecca Pyles who studies the evolution of pregnancy and live-birth in reptiles.
Saiphos equalis
May 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Saiphos equalis
Note to #ScienceTeachers, the new animation now has NGSS categories added to it.
HS-LS4-1: Communicating Common Ancestry
HS-LS4-2: Process of evolution
HS-LS4-4: Natural selection and adaptation.
www.statedclearly.com/videos/darwi...
#biology
HS-LS4-1: Communicating Common Ancestry
HS-LS4-2: Process of evolution
HS-LS4-4: Natural selection and adaptation.
www.statedclearly.com/videos/darwi...
#biology
May 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Note to #ScienceTeachers, the new animation now has NGSS categories added to it.
HS-LS4-1: Communicating Common Ancestry
HS-LS4-2: Process of evolution
HS-LS4-4: Natural selection and adaptation.
www.statedclearly.com/videos/darwi...
#biology
HS-LS4-1: Communicating Common Ancestry
HS-LS4-2: Process of evolution
HS-LS4-4: Natural selection and adaptation.
www.statedclearly.com/videos/darwi...
#biology
Snake biologists:
How do you feel about where I set the "certainty-o-meter" here for the burrowing snake (Fossorial) hypothesis? Should I have it higher, lower?
Side note: The scale was drawn for me by @jordancollver.bsky.social years ago. I added the gauge today to illustrate confidence levels.
How do you feel about where I set the "certainty-o-meter" here for the burrowing snake (Fossorial) hypothesis? Should I have it higher, lower?
Side note: The scale was drawn for me by @jordancollver.bsky.social years ago. I added the gauge today to illustrate confidence levels.
April 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Snake biologists:
How do you feel about where I set the "certainty-o-meter" here for the burrowing snake (Fossorial) hypothesis? Should I have it higher, lower?
Side note: The scale was drawn for me by @jordancollver.bsky.social years ago. I added the gauge today to illustrate confidence levels.
How do you feel about where I set the "certainty-o-meter" here for the burrowing snake (Fossorial) hypothesis? Should I have it higher, lower?
Side note: The scale was drawn for me by @jordancollver.bsky.social years ago. I added the gauge today to illustrate confidence levels.
Monitor lizards are unreasonably cool looking.
Photo by Donald Hobern
Photo by Donald Hobern
April 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Monitor lizards are unreasonably cool looking.
Photo by Donald Hobern
Photo by Donald Hobern
Okay, I know that right now is not the best time in history to criticize scientists, but seriously? Why is this diagram in a real paleontology article about limb evo? They mix pectoral & pelvic fins. Each illustration has a different style. I'd get fired for this shit & I'm a YouTuber.
April 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Okay, I know that right now is not the best time in history to criticize scientists, but seriously? Why is this diagram in a real paleontology article about limb evo? They mix pectoral & pelvic fins. Each illustration has a different style. I'd get fired for this shit & I'm a YouTuber.
Ha! This was emailed to me today by a fan: "Leaked photo of Colossal's resurrected Dodo bird"
April 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Ha! This was emailed to me today by a fan: "Leaked photo of Colossal's resurrected Dodo bird"
My dog has a teddy bear he brings with him everywhere. He uses it, not to snuggle, but to practice murdering.
March 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My dog has a teddy bear he brings with him everywhere. He uses it, not to snuggle, but to practice murdering.
I love that their logo is some birds and a bee!
March 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I love that their logo is some birds and a bee!
I love Gila Monsters. Their shape is so... potato? But then they're covered in beads!
@jordancollver.bsky.social did you ever draw one? I feel like you'd be the best at noticing all the things about them that must be appreciated and put into ink!
@jordancollver.bsky.social did you ever draw one? I feel like you'd be the best at noticing all the things about them that must be appreciated and put into ink!
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I love Gila Monsters. Their shape is so... potato? But then they're covered in beads!
@jordancollver.bsky.social did you ever draw one? I feel like you'd be the best at noticing all the things about them that must be appreciated and put into ink!
@jordancollver.bsky.social did you ever draw one? I feel like you'd be the best at noticing all the things about them that must be appreciated and put into ink!
RFK Jr claims we have measles outbreaks every year. Is he correct?
Turns out he is. Here's the CDC data: www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Does this calm you or do you still worry he's downplaying the significance? It does look like we're headed into a rough year but hopefully not like 2019.
Turns out he is. Here's the CDC data: www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Does this calm you or do you still worry he's downplaying the significance? It does look like we're headed into a rough year but hopefully not like 2019.
February 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
RFK Jr claims we have measles outbreaks every year. Is he correct?
Turns out he is. Here's the CDC data: www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Does this calm you or do you still worry he's downplaying the significance? It does look like we're headed into a rough year but hopefully not like 2019.
Turns out he is. Here's the CDC data: www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Does this calm you or do you still worry he's downplaying the significance? It does look like we're headed into a rough year but hopefully not like 2019.
I asked ChatGPT to do a deep research response on leg loss in snakes and parallel evolutionary in other reptile groups. It read a bunch of papers and tried to supplement with popular articles.
Turns out that our new robot overlord has great taste in science blogs! @tetzoo.bsky.social.
Turns out that our new robot overlord has great taste in science blogs! @tetzoo.bsky.social.
February 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I asked ChatGPT to do a deep research response on leg loss in snakes and parallel evolutionary in other reptile groups. It read a bunch of papers and tried to supplement with popular articles.
Turns out that our new robot overlord has great taste in science blogs! @tetzoo.bsky.social.
Turns out that our new robot overlord has great taste in science blogs! @tetzoo.bsky.social.
Trait duplications (serial homologies) happen all the time in evolution.
The 4 horned antelope is the only bovid species with 4 horns. It's not clear if they evolved from a single mutation (as in 4 horned sheep) or evolved gradually from a pronged horn.
The 4 horned antelope is the only bovid species with 4 horns. It's not clear if they evolved from a single mutation (as in 4 horned sheep) or evolved gradually from a pronged horn.
February 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Trait duplications (serial homologies) happen all the time in evolution.
The 4 horned antelope is the only bovid species with 4 horns. It's not clear if they evolved from a single mutation (as in 4 horned sheep) or evolved gradually from a pronged horn.
The 4 horned antelope is the only bovid species with 4 horns. It's not clear if they evolved from a single mutation (as in 4 horned sheep) or evolved gradually from a pronged horn.
Law and order is essential but this is not a celebration of law and order, it is the institutional celebration of suffering.
February 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Law and order is essential but this is not a celebration of law and order, it is the institutional celebration of suffering.
I keep seeing biologists claim they've falsified the (poorly named) "central dogma" by finding proteins that cause mutations.
No.
To actually defy the "central dogma" you need a natural system that reads protein sequences & converts them to DNA sequences. Search on, my friends!
No.
To actually defy the "central dogma" you need a natural system that reads protein sequences & converts them to DNA sequences. Search on, my friends!
February 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I keep seeing biologists claim they've falsified the (poorly named) "central dogma" by finding proteins that cause mutations.
No.
To actually defy the "central dogma" you need a natural system that reads protein sequences & converts them to DNA sequences. Search on, my friends!
No.
To actually defy the "central dogma" you need a natural system that reads protein sequences & converts them to DNA sequences. Search on, my friends!
Our bird-bath made me laugh today.
February 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Our bird-bath made me laugh today.
This art is from the first paper modeling the structure of double stranded DNA. It was Drawn by Odile Crick (married to Francis Crick) & based on the X-ray diffraction data of Rosalind Franklin.
I love it! It shows the major & minor grooves, correct chirality & approximate number of bases per turn.
I love it! It shows the major & minor grooves, correct chirality & approximate number of bases per turn.
February 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This art is from the first paper modeling the structure of double stranded DNA. It was Drawn by Odile Crick (married to Francis Crick) & based on the X-ray diffraction data of Rosalind Franklin.
I love it! It shows the major & minor grooves, correct chirality & approximate number of bases per turn.
I love it! It shows the major & minor grooves, correct chirality & approximate number of bases per turn.
What did I miss?! My wife and I spent inauguration day off in Southern Florida looking for alligators. FYI, we found a huge one!
January 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
What did I miss?! My wife and I spent inauguration day off in Southern Florida looking for alligators. FYI, we found a huge one!
When you care more about your coster than your desk.
January 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
When you care more about your coster than your desk.
Post a picture of yourself from a different era
November 30, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Post a picture of yourself from a different era
This is what's currently to the left of my keyboard
November 28, 2024 at 2:04 AM
This is what's currently to the left of my keyboard