At some point in September I start glaring at the asters and think they are literally never going to bloom, this has all been a waste of time, and then all of a sudden it’s mid October and bam. There they go.

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If you need me, I’ll be staring at this alligator gar scan all day. The fish was so big that I had to drive all the way to UT Austin to scan it. This particular animal has a tooth the grew straight through its skull

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A more trivial (but annoying, as a peer reviewer) element of this: young researchers (and mid-career...?) don't seem to know the fundamentals of taxonomic procedure: how to write the Systematic Palaeontology section of a paper; how to create compound words in Latin; etc.

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Me and @richardjbutler.bsky.social wrote a paper on this... New frontiers in dinosaur exploration | Biology Letters | The Royal Society share.google/wXJsxbzP56rA...

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The hollowing out of taxonomic expertise is the silent crisis in our profession. And the worse sin is those who aren't even the slight bit *curious* about learning basic identifications.

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