#SICB2023 was so much fun! Forgot how exhilarating and exhausting conferences can be. So grateful for all the awesome people I got to meet 🥰

Being rigorous does not have to mean being cruel. We can have high standards and also be kind in how we communicate them. We can choose to support people in achieving their best rather than tearing them down when they fall short.

If you’re interested in feeding biomechanics, sensorimotor integration, or just want to see cute pictures of ferrets and happen to be at #SICB2023 you can come watch my talk! See you in the Brazos room on the second floor at 9:30 🥳

JOB OPENING (pre)ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm going to be hiring a short-term postdoc very soon to work on diversification dynamics in fossil birds. If you are on the market for a job starting in early 2023 and are good a phylogenetic comparative methods, email me ASAP!

@drbeercat may not be at #2022SVP, but her art is! Beautiful sloth bone map used by our friend Lazaro Viola.

Today's photos from our recent hands-on event at the Athens Public Library focus on the grad students—who did an outstanding job! @MyACPL 1—@DjasaurusDj Morgan 2—@SeishiroTada & @drbeercat Sophie Beery 3—@RileySombathy 4—@BelalSa79969024 Salem #WitmerLabLibraryDinos2022 🦕🦖

#SciCommSaturday Our program at the Athens Public Library @MyACPL was a big success—with a great turnout! Lots of super-engaged families & lots of smiles! Hands-on ftw! Thanks so much to our team of grad students & undergrads! More photos later (I need a nap...& maybe a 🍺!)

It's #WorldSeaTurtleDay, & we've been studying green sea turtles & loggerheads as part of @DjasaurusDj Morgan's PhD work on cephalic adaptations of extinct marine reptiles. We're grateful to partner with @FloridaAtlantic, @MyFWC, & @USFWS to obtain these beautiful specimens. 🐢

Help! Doctoral student @DjasaurusDj Morgan has contacted maybe dozens of people/firms looking for frozen carcasses of any varanid (monitor/goanna)—or just the head & neck—for vascular injection & diceCT. Please DM us if you have or know of any. Thanks! 🦎

The enigmatic Palaeogale. Was it more like a weasel, Genet, civet, or linsang?? 🤷🏻‍♂️ @yalepeabody

King cobra venom can kill an elephant, but can it kill a dermestid colony? Serious question. @DjasaurusDj Morgan successfully—& carefully (danger!)—did a venous injection of this beautiful cadaveric cobra. We're ready to skeletonize it but wonder if the beetles will survive. 🐍

Soon #HeritageHall here at @OUHCOM will be welcoming in the family & friends of those generous folks who donated their bodies for science & medical education. Our students, faculty. & staff will also be here to offer our gratitude. 1st since 2019 and always a moving service!

So excited to have started conducting my PhD research @WitmerLab! Looking forward to lots of fun times!

We're very happy to welcome back @SeishiroTada to our lab! Sei visited us 2019, & is now a PhD student in Taka Tsuihiji's lab at the University of Tokyo. He'll be here through October, doing parts of his doctoral research on sauropsid nasal cavity evolution. Stay tuned...!

I love them 😭

#SciCommSaturday First time getting to do in person outreach in a hot minute! Had so much fun being the mammal rep for OU's Bios table! I missed seeing the excitement people feel when I teach them something new 😍

We published another paper on #ExperimentalEvolution in #phytoplankton. Adaptation to high temperature can alter not only C and nutrient content but cell SHAPE as well. Great work by Danny O’Donnell and Sophie Beery @drbeercat https://t.co/V5momdVBgK

Job alert- join us at @uclcdb! We're looking for someone who studies the evolutionary morphology and who can teach clinical neuroanatomy. Advert is here: https://t.co/SckFXq4kuj message me for more info. apply if you meet just some of the criteria- there is no perfect candidate!

Ever wondered if you could meet all your favourite wildlife biologists in a video game?

Check out that love bone map courtesy of my talented co-author @drbeercat ❤️🦥