I got to introduce my students to skinks last week and had to mention your work! What weird little guys they are.

Don’t think anything will top this, but for the modern era where both teams 1) know the rules and 2) have coaches I think it’s about as bonkers as possible.

Sure!

Never too early to learn to regret asking what a species is and if they are real.

You are never too young to learn about species concepts.

Three Bean Salad

Reminder that I'm looking for a MSc student to work on morphological diversification in fossil crinoids. Please share w/ any students who may be interested & FYI I'll be at the @geosociety GSA meeting next week

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I'm recruiting a MSc student to work on an NSF project focusing on morphological disparity in crinoids from Anticosti Island. My lab at @OU_Paleo uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic modeling to study macroevolution in extinct invertebrates. Feel free to reach out & please RT!

It’s amazing how they literally do not try to run the ball. And they don’t seem to have an answer for pass protection.

CW: Fish head. Had fun prepping a teaching specimen yesterday, best way to test your bone knowledge. Teleosts are still a challenge but it was fun to practice with a salmon!

Small sample size but talking to some liberal arts people about jobs and it sounds like enrollment is down, and the FAFSA problem made things a lot worse.