Matildé Acosta

@thepeanutpal les text more pictures! it’s easier when you tell a story and use the lingo that makes you feel comfortable! Make jokes when it feels appropriate, run it through once or twice :) you’ve got it!

also any tips to help preparing for a presentation would be very much appreciated

Hi everyone, this week my biology teacher has invited me to introduce our evolution unit to my class 😄 While I am super excited and thankful for the opportunity, I am a bit anxious as I haven’t really done any previous public speaking before. Does anyone have any tips (cont.)

A message to fellow scientists - please do not under any circumstance use generative AI images as "illustrations" to promote research. The relationship between scientists & artists is historically long standing and mutually beneficial. Don't set a precedence by trampling on it.

@DALevering A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

the only problem I have with it (other than wasted resource) is that it would crush some kids dream that the museum, does not in fact, come to life after sunset..

ok hear me out; live cams for paleontology exhibits like they have for zoos/aquariums

@MelanieDuring if the men feel like they need to point out ‘not all men’ perhaps theyre still part of the problem..

Women: have bodies with features men don't have. Men*: can't cope *no, not all men, I know. Just back off (of my sister).

@reptiliferous trackway activity!

@DanPalaeon1 I’ve had dreams about doing modern specimen prep on cool animals haha

"Haha last night I had a dream I finally kissed my crush! How about you??" Me who uncovered an entire fossil formation of complete skeletons in my garden last night:

@MustelidDwyer I went and checked it out a few days later and it was dead outside of its burrow but not injured. We had the vet out to look at our cows and he told me it was probably rabid after poking at it and to leave burrows alone lol.

@MustelidDwyer hahaha lots of running! my dogs were really interested in it’s burrow so I went and checked it out after putting them in the house. It scurried out and was acting pretty aggressively—I thankfully had used my bike to go and inspect (I was 13) and rode away.

Two words: rabid armadillo

Who will get to have that temnospondyl lunch?! A pair of Proterochampsa fight over a yummy Pelorocephalus in a Late Triassic day of what would become South America

@Mattmcclellan1R Omg I did that yesterday too! (But I used Storygraph for the pretty graphs )

Finally, I have updated my GoodReads.

@drshawna no!

If I had a nickel..

@DALevering I think actual discussion could be very productive! If that gets implemented perhaps posting some of the main questions before the symposia would be helpful for people to organize thoughts/feel more prepared.

pfft what am I talking about though lm just being a Radical Youth who Doesn’t Understand🫠

hey guys I know everyone is in academia and jaded and everything but can’t we all just be /nice/.. like ik everyone sucks but we’d all suck less if we were just a bit nicer….

@CalebBohus @t_hotchner if you remove an entire honey bear—it’s scrumdiddly

@tillytilder @t_hotchner B-but, why? Why must a honey bear die??? Does the chili taste good?

@CalebBohus @t_hotchner here’s the insider scoop: everytime Tony makes chili, a honey bear dies. (this is a heinous act I came into contact with during field season)

@tillytilder @t_hotchner I'm not involved in this… but why is there honey in the chili?!