The more I teach science writing, the more I find that students best learn the basics when they have a concise example to follow. Here's my streamlined version of the ideal empirical paper, annotated with 14 important points. Let me know what you think. What should I change?
After hiding under the substrate at a fish research center for nearly 7 years as larvae, Pacific lamprey EMERGED as juveniles with eyes and a suction disk mouth! #thread
ICYMI Hidden diversity in a “living fossil” fish: a second species of Bowfin!
Read the new preprint by our team, led by @ChaseBrownstein here: https://t.co/GCg14v2ezQ…
The return of Amia ocellicauda, originally described from the #GreatLakes in 1836!
📷JMM & @Zach__Randall
Exciting pair of muscle evolution companion papers just out! Bishop & Pierce describe the fossil record of appendicular muscle evolution in Synapsida on the line to mammals in both the forelimb and hindlimb:
https://t.co/AkL5hq31uo
https://t.co/U4eBp4Dy0M
@WHMPodcast I didn’t collect swords, but my high school friends and I thought we had found the next Matrix. Embarrassingly one of the few movies I’ve ever seen on back to back nights. @Crabin@jupin one of the last movies I saw at the old Crossgates 12 by the food court.
🤯THIS JUST IN🤯
When asleep, glass frogs HIDE THEIR RED BLOOD CELLS INSIDE THEIR LIVERS, which are covered in GUANINE-CRYSTAL DISCO MIRRORS that scatter light & make the frogs 2-3 TIMES MORE SEE-THROUGH.
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Study in @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/Jew9w6YgT0
✨️Raffle-time✨️
I'm moving soon and am clearing stuff out. So this diplocaulus diorama is up for grabs!
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Would LOVE comments about what you'd like to see me make in 2023 but not required for entry. Drawn 01/01/2023. GL!
*GIVEAWAY* @PhilTippett’s Mad God—the fifth highest-rated horror film of 2022 on Letterboxd so far—is releasing on SteelBook DVD/Blu-ray December 6, 2022 and we have 10 copies to give away.
To enter, simply QT with your Letterboxd four faves to go into the draw.