I was just thinking to myself "It would be good if #Mastodon let you follow someone's original posts without seeing all the stuff they boost, which is not relevant to me". Then it occurred to me to look and see if it does ... and it does! Click on the person's username, then click the three-dots menu near top right of their profile, then choose "Hide boosts from …" This is a game-changer!
WARNING: Science InΒ Progress! Matt's staying with me for a few days, and we're working into the night trying to put a stake through the heart of a long-running project. He just left the room to take a quick break, and I snapped this photo of the work area. We have everything we need! From left to right: beer, Carnegie Diplodocus skeletal reconstructions, 3d prints of brachiosaurid dorsals, chocolate, alligator vertebrae, a shared Google Doc with an in-progress…
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
WARNING: Science In Progress!
Matt’s staying with me for a few days, and we’re working into the night trying to put a stake through the heart of a long-running proje...
The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at
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Name our Storms
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In 2013, I co-wrote an article in PLOS ONE on cartilage in the necks of sauropods. The URL was
PLOS One
 so of course I used that as the link in my online CV, blog posts, my IR, and so on. Now I find that this link no longer works. PLOS has broken its links. I have no words for this level of incompetence. Do I REALLY need to link to
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It's astonishing that Scientific American is having to publish an article on How Not To Be Killed By The Police, but here it is:
Scientific American
How to Protect Yourself during Protests
Demonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillance