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Review: The World’s Largest Dinosaurs
Much of this is crossposted from a shorter article on Exhibitfiles. And geez, my language when writing for exhibit developers is overly formal. I’ll work on that. For more information on any of the...
View ArticleToday I got an email…
…informing me that I’d successfully passed my corrections on my thesis required to get a PhD. I squeaked out loud. This was to avoid screaming loud enough to wake my sleeping roommates.
View ArticleAnimal Love Poem
My friend, hair-twin and never-quite-colleague Emma wrote this poem for Valentine’s day: The panther chameleon will bob his head And make his colour intense. A broody ringtail lemur girl, Will attract...
View ArticleMonday Video: Otter Swimming Lessons
This came up in conversation over the weekend and needs to be shared: [YouTube Link] What did you do this weekend?
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Trixie Seven: Writer’s commentary
It’s true that I churned out Trixie Seven in a couple of hours, plus the time it took to edit after beta, but it’s still the case that I keep talking about that tiny little fic every opportunity I get....
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Storefront Science
Storefront Science is a pretty unique space. Situated way uptown in Washington Heights (but conveniently close to the A and and 1 lines), it is part afterschool classroom and part creche, providing an...
View ArticleThe Up-Goer 5 Car for Carrying People Who Make Music
The idea of the meme making the rounds these days is to use the Up-Goer 5 Text editor to describe one’s job, i.e. using the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English Language. I am a doctor: not...
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Why Not to do a PhD
From liv on Dreamwidth: The gateway into this life is a PhD, and the PhD system is deeply, deeply fucked up when it isn’t actively abusive. Doing a PhD will break you. It’s pretty much designed to...
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Knowing Physics makes Biology Awesome
There is a belief knocking around somewhere in our cultural rhetoric, that “children have favorites,” and by the time we’re adults we have to have grown out of that silliness and show no ridiculous,...
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Why do we dissect?
Half way between where I sit and the advance guard of Winter Storm Nemo, sits a bucket that contains a lot of formalin and two large freshwater mussels. Also on that table is two bivalve pairs, cleaned...
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Animantarx is better than your favourite dinosaur
For the 5th January (LJ | DW) swankyfunk asked about my favourite dinosaur. Everyone, of course, has a favourite dinosaur, I think it’s compulsory for being a human being. As a child, my favourite...
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The Five Best Things about the NHM
I don’t have anything scheduled on the blogging on demand meme (LJ | DW) for tomorrow, so if you want me to ramble about something, you’d better get to it. Anyway, the 6th January, herdivineshadow...
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Took Me Long Enough
There are quite a few books in existence that I should have read already, that if I admit I haven’t read, I’ll feel obliged to add “…yet” to the end of the sentence, and the admission would probably...
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Seven Reasons to Kill Someone (Involving Palaeontology): 1
So a few episodes of Star Trek ago, Becca asked me: “Have you caught up on Elementary yet?” and I said “NO! But I know the most recent episode involves DINOSAURS.” And she said “I WANT TO KNOW YOUR...
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Seven Reasons to Kill Someone (Involving Palaeontology): 2. The Black Market
Have you watched Elementary yet? No? Care about spoilers? Yes? Then skip this post. Don’t worry, I’ll be back and you can find it again. In this instalment of “seven reasons to kill someone (involving...
View ArticleSeven Reasons to Kill Someone (Involving Palaeontology) 3: Establishing Priority
I know, I know, you want to know where I’ve been. Reporting on roller derby, for the record. Also playing roller derby, at job interviews, and also in Dublin. And then I’ve been reading Hunger Games,...
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Seven Reasons to Kill Someone (Involving Palaeontology) 4: Gastric Flora in a...
But I don’t want to cut for spoilers. What do you mean, you still haven’t seen the episode? Fine. Everyone else, I’ll see you below the cut. Okay. so in Dead Clade Walking, the murder is committed...
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