My office this morning, and a couple of students who showed up for office hours. #FPNG #Richland Nebraska NF&G

The Sun King medley by the Beatles is one of the greatest sequences of music. EVER.

I honestly think benjamin folds is the modern #JohnUpdike. He's legit a lyrical and musical genius. Exhibit A: youtu.be/t6JA-4YgoCw

Yeah, this happened yesterday. IYKYK. American Arachnological Society Shahan Derkarabetian Magic: The Gathering

Got back from #AAS2023 at 12:30 am and was on the road for the 2.25 hr drive to my field sites at #FPNG by 5:30 am! A few pictures from today's "office" time. A peculiar mushroom pair emerging from a cow patty, and some opilionids from pitfall traps collected today. Nebraska NF&G

I have always liked Ray Charles and I am watching Jamie Foxx play him in Ray. I sincerely believe him as Ray Charles. What an incredible performance.

Good morning from my field "office" in the prairie at the #FortPierreNationalGrassland #FPNG! May the pitfall trap deities grant us a good week of samples! Nebraska NF&G

Huh. I was able to get complete mitogenomes from UCE reads for Palpimanus capensis and Madagascarchaea legendrei!

Waiting for benjamin folds to start in Salina, KS!

Revision of Brazilian species of Aleochara Gravenhorst of the subgenus Xenochara Mulsant & Rey (#Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) --This study provides a taxonomic revision of the Brazilian species of the subgenus Xenochara. mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

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Next Friday 22 September is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mesquite, a program/system for phylogenetic data and analyses developed by David R. Maddison and me, and currently in version 3.8. Some thoughts & a party! — a 🧵. mesquiteproject.org

Disinformation abounds, and it can kill. Fortunately, it can often be unambiguously identified | Analysis trib.al/ACHj47l

I'm off this platform. I can be found on that other one. lbrianpatrick.bsky.social

Sci-comm at its finest! Shahan Derkarabetian and I just published a systematic study of arachnids in the Magic: The Gathering card game (Magic: The Gathering). We discuss the evolution of spiders and other arachnids across the multiverse! Check it out: virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/wp-content/upl…

We published a paper on the spiders in Magic: the Gathering! Systematics, taxonomy, and evolution.