New paper lead by Siobhan Pearson, exploring morphological differences between fur seal and sea lion crania 🦭 We found that allometry explains most differences between the two groups. This project originated as Siobhan's Masters project at @nhm-london.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mms....
Quantifying the Morphological Differences Between Fur Seals and Sea Lions
The eared seals (family Otariidae) are divided into fur seals and sea lions, despite a lack of cladistic support for these groups. The division is primarily based on hair morphology, and it is unknow...
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GRINDSET 1993
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[The following is an Eddie Vedder-like GRUNGE ROCK GUY from 1993, but he’s doing a modern, grindsetty, LinkedIn-lunatic-style diary]
5am:
Sleep is for wimps - I get up at 4am and have a two hour session of Avoiding Selling Out.
[Show him sitting up in bed, staring intensely ahead and going HURRRR]
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9am:
I'm layering the moment the thrift store opens - ten minutes late is for losers.
[Show him putting plaid shirts over other shirts first thing in the morning in a charity shop]
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10am:
I'm *always on* - every interaction is a business opportunity.
[He's walking down the street and an OLD LADY approaches, gesturing to her little dog who is poking its head out of a roadside ditch]
OLD LADY:
Excuse me -
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OLD LADY:
Please can you help me pull my dog out of this ditch?
[Grunge guy looks out camera - he’s had an idea]
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[Cut to a 90s-style music video with MTV-style titles below telling us what the song and band are called]:
DOG IN A DITCH by Ditchdog
[Grunge guy sings “Daaawg in a diiiitch….”]
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11am:
Dog In A Ditch wins an MTV award so it’s time for another Avoiding Selling Out session
GRUNGE GUY [holding in MTV award]:
HUURRRR
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12pm
Working lunch while I craft effortfully scratchy lyric sheets for the album inlay
[Show him doing this]
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2pm:
Hit the studio to make an extremely inaccessible third record
[grunge guy in studio singing YOU’RE ALL GONNA HATE THIS while surrounded by white noise, accordions, etc]
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4pm:
That's gone platinum (sad face) so it’s time to have another Avoiding Selling Out session
GRUNGE GUY:
HUUUURRRR
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8pm :
After dinner me and the band hit the Staring Intensely Out Of Shot Gym to work on our stares
[Show the band in a gym, just sitting on a weights bench staring intensely out of shot instead of exercising]
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9pm:
One last Avoiding Selling Out session, Bovril, bed.
[He’s back in bed, holding his Bovril, looking intensely ahead, going HURRRR]
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreietqxclztbvtnd74mrgxbdzoi7qw3plmsd667zacivynpunvitddi)
