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1941 – A Paleontologist listens to all the top 100s
I’m not a musician, but I love music. I played the tuba in the band in high school and college, so I have a bit of musical knowledge, but no real expertise. I decided that I wanted to know more about popular music in America, so I am going to listen to all the Billboard […]
Conservation Paleobiology Symposium 2015 PM
1:03 Defining Conservation Goals in Regional Perspectives. Moderator: Emily Lindsey. Panelists: Claire Kremmen, Carsten Nowak, Zhibin Zhang, Gerardo Ceballos. Question for the panel: What is the most pressing conservation problem for your region? Solutions? Zhang: China is in top 12 countries in biodiversity, top 3 in plant species. Biodiversity threats include deforestation, endangered species (25% […]
Global Change 2015 Symposium Live Blog AM
I’ll be live-blogging my experience at the 2015 Global Change Symposium at UC Berkeley. This year’s theme is Integrating Biology and Paleobiology. Any mistakes here are, of course, mine. Please let me know in the comments and I’ll correct them in the text. 8:06: Tony Barnosky starts us off and reminds us that moderators will […]
My Dead-blog of the 2015 IBS meetings.
These are my notes from IBS 2015, as a sort of not-so-live blog. I’m still figuring this scicomm thing out and I’ll probably have a livelier way of putting up notes next time, but I feel like the Twitters don’t give me a chance to document the conference the way I’d like. All smart stuff […]
In which we explain how camel ankle bones relate to the fate of global ecosystems.
I’m taking time away from comic book blogging to do some actual SCIENCE BLOGGING. Just last month I published a paper in Palaeontologia Electronica with my esteemed colleague Brianna McHorse (who blogs over at Fossilosophy). It’s called “A method for improved identification of postcrania from mammalian fossil assemblages: multivariate discriminant function analysis of camelid astragali.” […]
Comic books for 12/4/13
It feels so good to be caught up with my comic books. I may fall behind over the next few weeks, because a pair of NSF deadlines are approaching, along with the final stretch on our new exhibit at the MNCH. This week I’m also planning on posts discussing some of my recent publications, as […]
Comics for 11/20/13: Batman Zero Year lives up to its name
Aha! I’m finally caught up on my comic book reading after SVP. This two-week interval’s books are dominated by the Zero-Year crossover, which I find to be mostly a Zero-excitement crossover. The main story in the Scott Snyder penned Batman is good, but the tie-in books are all pretty flat and make me wish for […]
Comics for 11/6/13
I know, I’m sooo behind on my comics. I’ve been busy. Comics are my second hobby, so they fall by the wayside for work, family, and exercise. At work: we’ve been closing in on the new exhibit. Here’s a picture of the giant sloth skeleton getting installed. Here are my comic ratings for the […]
Comic Reviews for October 23
OK, OK, I know this is a tad late… I’ve been busy: I was at the 2013 SVP meeting in Los Angeles. I’ll try to catch up on almost a month’s worth of comics, because this batch represents two weeks of backlog. I’ll drop in my review of the next two week’s worth sometime this […]
My 2013 SVP odyssey.
I’m lazy, so instead of writing an actual post about my Vert Paleo meeting, I’ve storifyied (is that a word?) my tweets from the meeting. Share and enjoy! 4DBio’s #2013 SVP Storify by Edward Byrd Davis Sat, Nov 09 2013 09:50:05 4DBio’s #2013 SVP Tweets from me at this year’s SVP meeting in Los Angeles. […]