Had a great time giving a lecture on mammalian evolution at Cal Poly. I decided to prepare an interactive activity where students had to reconstruct a museum infographic, and I loved seeing how involved they were! 🧪

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Ever see a snake do a barrel roll? Scientists disentangle the locomotor kinematics of this behavior in rolling snakes. Learn more in Current Biology: spkl.io/633287ntaA Yosuke Kojima & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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New paper in @pnas.org ! 🐟 Fish swim faster when they beat their tails faster... but not in a straight line, like we've assumed since 1958. It bends at low speeds, and the shape of the body wave matters a lot! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Finally caught up on Baucom lab news! 🌱 Grace's PhD, new postdoc Robin Waterman, an Evolution Letters cover, a Guggenheim, a teaching prize, a new pollinator project, and more. So proud of this group! baucomlab.wordpress.com/news/

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