I think "reply guy" must be the stupidest term in the whole social media discourse.
Don't want replies? Don't post on a public forum with reply capability.
Mike Taylor 🦕
Mike Taylor 🦕
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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.
By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs.
I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support #LFC.
Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk
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"I don't find the increased complexity of computers depressing, I find the abandonment of the project of soundness depressing."
— Ramsey Nasser at
Merveilles
Ramsey Nasser (@nasser@merveilles.town)
I'll grant that computers today do things that are categorically more complex than anything previous generations attempted. I'll grant that so much...
More raptors with their heads on backwards
Chet Gottfried got in touch after he read Yet more lying necks: Backwards Birds edition, nearly two months ago now, with some more of his photos. Here they are, with his permission: What's going on here? As I wrote the Chet, "Interesting that this degree of twisting is common in raptors. I would not have thought their lifestyle demanded it, but what do I know?" He replied:
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
More raptors with their heads on backwards
Chet Gottfried got in touch after he read Yet more lying necks: Backwards Birds edition, nearly two months ago now, with some more of his photos. H...