I'm meant to be working on a talk for tomorrow, but instead I've ended up obsessed with this stamp I found on a scan of Hutchinson's 1896 'Extinct Monsters'.

Who was this person that wanted a book on big animals and got thrown into the carceral system for it?

Further details on the 2 years postdoc to work with me, Dr. Sarah Sheffield, Dr. Adriane Lam and Jen Bauer on echinoderm evolution can be found here!

The job ad has also been updated with some more details.

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Status update: only looking half as haggard as I feel.

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Another valentines day, another time to post this.

One for the taxonomy nerds.

Down to just two of us for acrylics this week, plus the instructor. Working on abstract art with metallic paints.

Yes

Got invited to an art social and so made another bad art!

I made a bad art!

I went to an acrylic painting class as part of my 'try to meet anyone outside of the department' scheme. Most of the attendees were older ladies but I had a good time and made bad art (especially taken in comparison to what everyone else did!).

Paleontology class this week is playing the evolution board game! Got four different games going on and enjoying seeing the horrific things students are evolving.

Once again, my undergraduate palaeontology class tackles the latest controversies in cookie phylogeny.

Running out of things to name new species so I might just start naming them after 40k primarchs.

Accidentally doing the same thing 12 years later.