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Zane
@zanegoodell.bsky.social
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PhD Student in Paleobiology at the University of Saskatchewan.

Expect Colorado Rockies, Judo, Paleo, Metal and Memes.
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Zane @zanegoodell.bsky.social · Jan 24
Good morning Bluesky it's me! Going to try to curate this account to feature more paleontology, Colorado Rockies and death metal! Here's a photo of me in Paris
zanegoodell.bsky.social
Reading Blood Meridian in front of my Indigenous girlfriend and shaking my head the whole time so she knows I disagree with it
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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reneedechert.com
Well, that’s not good.
Rockies move on from finalists for top baseball operations job
The Diamondbacks' Amiel Sawdaye and Guardians' Matt Forman were the only finalists as of last week.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
Could you all please sign this petition? We're seeing a massive miscarriage of justice in Colorado right now

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
​ Petition for Immediate Parole for the Jaramillo Patiño Family
RE: Urgent Request for Immediate Parole for Jana Jaramillo Patiño, Kewin Daniel Patiño Bustamante, and Fernando Jaramillo Solano. We, the undersigned members of the Durango, Colorado community, and ...
actionnetwork.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
Is Yamamoto seriously going to pitch a complete game in the World Series??
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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reneedechert.com
This:
A post from Jared Diamond on X that quotes the Rockies post announcing that Bill Schmidt has stepped down. Diamond writes, “I need you all to understand how many VERY smart people in baseball view running the Rockies as a dream job. It's the ultimate challenge -- trying to figure out how to build a winner in that environment. Smart executives are tantalized by it. They want to prove they can do it.”
October 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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npr.org
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
Where were you when you heard Bill Schmidt was fired?
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
If you make fun of the president's favorite podcaster you'll lose your job
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:

They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
Why Language Models Hallucinate, by Kalai et al. Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such “hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This “epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A study in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had uniquely elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪
Extreme armour in the world's oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
go.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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titoaureliano.bsky.social
🚨🧪We’ve just published a new paper!🚨
We peered inside the bones of duck-billed dinosaurs from Patagonia to uncover secrets of their physiology. And they are VERY distinct from both carnivorous and long-necked dinosaurs 🦕🔬 [+] anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Inside a duck‐billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia
Dinosaurs evolved a unique respiratory system with air sacs that contributed to their evolutionary success. Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) has been used to infer the presence of air sac syst...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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rachelignotofsky.bsky.social
The Devonian Period! Aka the “age of the fishes” but a lot happened on dry land: the first forests covered continents and the first vertebrates lived on land, including our ancient ancestors.

🎨Art from my new book DINOSAURS 📚 preorder here: a.co/d/3HtvNhU

#fossiladdict #evolution #sciart #paleoart
August 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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thetennisletter.bsky.social
Victoria Mboko becomes the youngest Canadian woman in the Open Era to win the Canadian Open.

Her moment.

Her history.

🇨🇦❤️
August 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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tennisupdates.bsky.social
It was meant to be for Victoria Mboko this week in Montreal.

• New World #25, Previous High was #85
• 1st WTA Title
• 4th Youngest WTA 1000 Champion
• Comes From Set Down 3 Times
• Took Out 4 Grand Slam Champions
• Saved Match Point vs Rybakina in SF

📸 Jimmie48/WTA Tour
August 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
#AppleTV have just put out a major announcement, so far only on Instagram I think... UPDATE: Twitter too. Yup, new season of #PrehistoricPlanet for 2025!
July 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
Why does Winona Ryder get typecast as suicidal in nearly every movie?
July 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
I guess you could say it was a good day
@denver--broncos.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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sammillerbb.bsky.social
Been writing a bit about the no-swing catcher's interferences pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-swing-...
The Swing Paradox
1) The oddest catcher's interferences 2) Foul ball ambiguities
pebblehunting.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
Some lovely snail trails for this #MolluscMonday. 🧪🐌🐾
cormacscoast.bsky.social Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · Jun 23
Marine gastropod tracks - mostly a mix of Topshells, Periwinkles, and Dogwhelks.
County Clare, Ireland.
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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samillingworth.com
🦕🥗 What did sauropods really eat?

For the first time, fossilised stomach contents confirm these giant dinosaurs dined on conifer bracts, seed ferns, and flowering plants – all inside 'Judy', Australia’s most complete sauropod.

🔗 theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

#SciComm #Dinosaurs 🧪
For the first time, fossil stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur reveal what they really ate
Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of extraordinary.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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jlivelypaleo.bsky.social
Speaking of, pretty bummed to see ZERO mention of the museum excavating and taking care of these fossils in the new #WalkingWithDinosaurs book. Plenty about @paleojim.bsky.social’s “megablock” though.
#WWD2025
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
I just watched Babygirl.

And now I feel aggressively normal like WTF did I just watch
June 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
zanegoodell.bsky.social
She's just like me FR FR
thetennisletter.bsky.social The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · May 28
Iga Swiatek wearing Dua Lipa merch at her Roland Garros press conference.

She’s so real. 💅🏻
May 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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art-h-ropod.bsky.social
Ottoia prolifica: a stem-group #priapulid #worm, ~7 cm in length, from the world famous #BurgessShale in #BritishColumbia 🇨🇦. Strongly annulate trunk, anterior to right w retracted proboscis & introvert hooks; pale linear trace along inner curve = gut #Cambrian (~508 MYA) #WormWednesday #fossil
A plump fossil priapulid worm is preserved flattened on a dark shale surface. The annulated trunk is strongly curved into a hook shape, with the narrower anterior region at the right end. The entire fossil appears as a golden brown film in this image. A lighter coloured linear trace marking the gut tract runs from the anterior end (where the proboscis is withdrawn) to the posterior tip. This is one of many fine specimens of Ottoia prolifica in the Invertebrate Palaeontology collections of the Royal Ontario Museum. For more details, see: https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossils/ottoia-prolifica/
May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Lufas are the hydrangea of the bathroom
May 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM