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Still miss him. Often. Still try to figure out what he'd advise. Still can't bring myself to touch the shared google doc he was the last to edit. Still seems so unfair.

Congratulations to Austin Lawrence (Austin Lawrence) for being one of only 5 MU top scholars selected for the SEC Emerging Scholars Program! showme.missouri.edu/2022/five-tige…

Congrats to Dr Casey Holliday Casey Holliday for being recognized with the Excellence in Research Mentoring Award by the MU School of Medicine! This award is especially significant because he was nominated by his students. Well earned! Mizzou Integrative Anatomy MU School of Medicine

📢 [1/2] Our new revision article "Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy" is already available in Journal of Human Evolution. 50 days free access to the paper 👉authors.elsevier.com/a/1gV7WAlZXQDmV

New paper led by the amazing Amanda Smith. Check it out! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Great to be back sharing paleo with the public! Thanks Young Scientists Expo for having us! Mizzou Research Mizzou MU School of Medicine

Catch me kicking off Mizzou's Show-Me Research Week, this Saturday morning at Ragtag Cinema. Croc skulls, heads in jars, good times!

Interesting new data on early ape anatomy and paleoenvironments of early Miocene Eastern Africa! theconversation.com/wooded-grassla…

Thanks AABA for making this a great meeting, especially for this 1st-timer. Really cool to get past and present Mizzou Integrative Anatomy folks together.

Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semi-arid basin One of the most interdisciplinary papers I have worked on, and a true delight with such inspirational co-authors. 😍 50 days free access to the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1h7pKAlZXU1f…

I am excited to share that I will be defending my PhD dissertation next Thursday, July 6, at 3 pm CDT. If you are interested in attending (either in person if you are local or via Zoom), please send me a message and I will share the Zoom link.

Statement from the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology on the launch of hominin fossils into sub-orbit

[1/10] AABA Statement Concerning the Hominin Fossils carried on Virgin Galactic Spaceflight: On September 8, 2023, fossil specimens of two hominin species, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, were taken into near-space on Virgin Galactic Spaceflight GALACTIC 03.

Paranthropus skeleton or not? You decide. "Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya" by Ward et al. 50 days free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hpvpAlZXU1lX

Really cool paper out by Amy Lagorio integrating GM, diceCT, and the challenges of biology/anatomy education during the pandemic! Check it out!!

This Saturday!

Some crazy folks decided to run a 3D imaging and computational biology class during Covid quarantine. It was a wild ride. Out of it came a nice little observer variation paper on how we landmark, segment and analyze 3D musculoskeletal features in CT data of Anoles. Thanks all!