He lost his postdoc for defrauding the department. He was hired to study one topic and instead associated the university with his racist ideals and rhetoric by pursuing "race realism." Signing a letter in support of him is just championing racism. He deserved to be fired for so many reasons.

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2w ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Paleontologist: we surveyed every modern cup, mug, and bowl and we conclude this is most closely related to the tea cup and once held some amount of water

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 2w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Ecologist: We really can’t tell whether the current state of the cup is representative without observations over at LEAST three field seasons

It's infuriating to see the right claim climate change didn't cause the horrific Spokane fires because of how it started. I live in spokane and grew up there. We never used to worry about fire seasons and have been on a multi year drought. The scale of this tragedy is due to climate change.

Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I'm finding that students in my upper level anatomy and physio course simply are not reading anything I give them. Their exams has bold and often underlined instructions for each section (e.g., true/false but if false change the sentence to make it true) and so many students simply ignored them.

Reached out to someone I saw a clip of trolling (their words lol) about dinosaurs on insta, and now I'm mutuals with Rico Nasty. Life is crazy sometimes.

Took me all day but finally managed to catch this lil rascal from the cabinets in my classroom (sealed jar was very temporary took him outside of campus and let him go with the Fritos)

I think Jubilee is a net negative for society, but it is wild to watch Dave Rubin confidently talk about things he knows legitimately nothing about. Please give me the confidence of a man who does no research and then goes on a program and just spews constant misinformation.

One of my favorite days of the quarter. Students get to measure a mock-up of a track site and use real data to reconstruct hypothetical speeds. The core of this work was done by Dr. Ben Kligman at his time at VT and he kindly shared his framework with me so I could adapt it for my students.

Something something academic articles.

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

Going on twitter for the first time in like 4 months is crazy cause it's people justifying copying other people's citations uncritically and saying "it should be fine, everyone does it." But at least I wasn't immediately met with racist bs so I guess that's something (the bare minimum).

Ill never understand vaccine hesitancy. Our ancestors would be devastated to learn that people are refusing a treatment that in their day would have meant not burying as many children. A small group of under informed individuals are forcing all of us to experience what life was like before medicine.

I see it's commencement time. To all those who didn't walk or get hooded for one reason or another. Take a moment to reflect on what an incredible accomplishment you've done. Not everyone feels the need to go through the ceremony and if that describes you, you are valid and incredible.

9 is simply too young for a cat. We will miss our little void princess so much. We loved every minute with her, but fuck, this part hurts.

Cat has been acting funny the past couple days. Turns out she has late stage kidney failure. Hold your furry loved ones close.

I wonder what it's like to be Mike Johnson. Universally hated and seen as the most incompetent and ineffective speaker in the history of the house. Is it good to be known as the worst person to ever hold the position? Seems like that should carry immense shame.

Why does the GOP continue to blame the Democrats for cheating in elections and paying protesters? Because that's what the GOP does to win and they assume others do it too. Their policies are so unpopular they can only cheat and project their inadequacy onto others.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

I am glad Trump is backing down but a line was crossed when he explicitly called for a genocide. This is not tolerable, and there is a constitutional remedy. Impeach and remove now.

I have a final project for my intro to dinosaurs class that includes submitting a first draft and incorporating feedback for their final draft. Some students do projects, some write papers. Its been a lot of fun to read revised essays this quarter. I'm seeing a lot of potential in these writers!

Fantastic adviser doing amazing work! Apply!

Rachel Warnock@rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Idk if anyone else watched the Love is Blind reunion, but it's gotta be a wild feeling to sit in a crowd of over 100 people who all trauma bonded the same way and just watch your cohort talk about what a piece of shit you are. Absolute cinema.

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy! Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27... with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

That horrific state of the union starts to make sense if you consider that Trump doesn't believe that poor people are actually people. His policies are helping the people he cares about. A small percentage of the most fortunate individuals are thriving at the cost of almost everybody else. Impeach.

Deeply saddened by the loss of Paleontologist and cat enthusiast, Hans-Dieter Sues. Hans work had a lot of influence on the science that I do, and his kindness had an immense impact on the kind of scientist I am. My heart goes out to his family.

So if companies are getting reimbursed for the tariffs, but we the people (who actually paid those tariffs) don't see a cent, do we get to skip taxes this year? Or can we have that extra money put into public programs that aren't a masked gestapo? Corporations aren't people, what are we doing?

It is really is this simple. (Stares at multiple scientific societies.)

DinoCon@dinoconuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Any Paleo preparators with experience using glass beads and butvar as a filler material for large broken bones?

Brenen Wynd PhD@brenenwynd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Question for the Paleo preparator crowd: have you used glass beads in conjunction with high wt/volume vinac solutions(70-80%)? I have a hadrosaur femur that is broken in the midshaft and replacing the eroded material seems like it won't be enough. I want to give it more structural integrity