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daveyfwright.bsky.social
Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and punk rock enthusiast. Assistant Professor & Curator of Fossil Invertebrates @ U. Oklahoma/Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Macroevolution, phylogenetic methods, echinoderms. https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com
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oh boy

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

There are physicists who tried to tell people this and we were labeled as histrionic libs who hate free speech

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

"The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited"

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Obituary: Richard Fortey (1946-2025) palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils https://go.nature.com/3Ej13Zb

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Can't wait for the NY Mets to bring this energy to the postseason and break my heart again

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Was reminded I once wrote a graduate class term paper (Paleobiology in 2012) I titled "Quantum Leaps through Adaptive Peaks". It was about reviving aspects of Simpson's Tempo and Mode for phenotypic evolution, mixed OU models, & integrating fossils w/ phylogenetic comparative methods. I was cooking!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

never imagined it would come to this but here we are in the war against banana slugs fighting on the side of banana slugs

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As a paleontologist my specific funding is via NSF but the majority of geoscience/geophysics departments (including mine!) absolutely rely on the Department of Energy funding for fundamental research

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update: so it goes

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Sometimes when you stare into the abyss of geologic time, the abyss stares back. The Ordovician trilobite Calyptaulax from the OMNH collections. Like modern insects, trilobites had compound eyes with many lenses. The lenses are made of calcite, which also makes up the exoskeleton. #TrilobiteTuesday

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Weekend AM thunderstorms should be illegal during spring migration

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Poo-tee-weet?"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

if you're also unbelievable tired with the dire wolf discourse: it's spring migration and we can just go outside and look at real birds

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

nobody: absolutely no one: migratory birds: we're so back

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Wonderful spring "migration morning" of birdwatching, including my first 2025 sightings for Prothonotary Warbler, Black & White Warbler, Northern Parula, and White-eyed Vireo!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The New York Mets absolutely have the best broadcast booth in baseball

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking as a paleontologist, we don't need to bring back species long lost to extinction. Modern ecosystems are already stressed without introducing bioengineered monstrosities. Celebrate biodiversity by appreciating & conserving the endless forms most beautiful & wonderful alive in the world today

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Not surprised but very disappointed to learn the surge of "de-extinction" pseudoscience in the news is being cited as grounds for cutting the endangered species list

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Back into the abyss for #FossilFriday

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New album cover dropped while at the 2025 Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I'm disappointed in the 51% reduction in awards granted this year but I'm so 'freakin proud of our @oupaleobiology.bsky.social students and what they've accomplished! 👏

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Paleontologists may quibble over various aspects of the Sepkoski Curve, but it's a fantastic framework for teaching. I show this in nearly every lecture of my non-majors, intro-level history of life class. The Sepkoski Curve is to paleontology what the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is to astrophysics

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