witmerlab.bsky.social
21st-century approaches to fleshing out the past! Mission: to use the structure of past & present animals to interpret evolutionary history...and to share it!
👤 Joined on 26 September 2023
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@witmerlab.bsky.socialA sad finding from one of our students: a dead long-eared owl snagged on barbed wire. Although barbed wire is the default for many ranchers, it is a source of mortality for owls worldwide. Another sad reminder of our impacts on wildlife. (*warning dead bird) #ornithology #wildlife #Alberta #Canada
Show Post🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...
Show PostI know what everyone I know is getting for Christmas.
Show PostI usually write under the pen name Mike Benton, but switched it up this time. Unfairly hot prof is actually based on a certain ornithopod worker but switched Cambridge to Oxford to cover my tracks.
Show PostHey @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, great to see your new book on sale at Calgary airport. A gripping romance involving an "unfairly hot" Oxford professor (modelled on Roger?). Why the pen-name, though??!
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