So happy that my contribution to the Paleobiology Special Issue on the 50th Anniversary of Punctuated Equilibria has just been published online! Thanks to all! Reflections on punctuated equilibria | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3xYp4Bk

Researchers have observed a Sumatran #orangutan in the wild repeatedly treating its own wound with a plant with several known medicinal properties - the first scientific record of this behaviour in a wild animal mpg.de/21886982/0429-… Dr. Isabelle Laumer caroline

Our June issue is now out! Cover article visualizes lemur masticatory muscle fascicles in 3D space in comparative primate study w/diceCT. Fascicle properties reveal adaptation to diverse diets hinting at evolutionary flexibility (Dickinson et al., 2024) anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2…

Found on the VT drill field; it appears that…burning…our math homework is one method of celebrating graduation. Congrats, all!!!! Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics Virginia Tech Engineering

Incredible. Stories like this make one realize how recent these times were in the history of our country and how far we have yet to go. What an amazing legacy. news.vt.edu/content/news_v…

May has been a hectic month for us, with plenty of courses 😁 Today we finished the course on Finite Elements Analysis we organized together with ICP_MCrusafont. It was exciting to see all the projects the participants were presenting...

Summer Vibes

Well, that’s…sad. Re-run the experiment with all the text after the summary replaced with copy-paste from random parts of the encyclopedia and see if it changes.

On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed news of freedom reaching the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas. Let’s keep building on the work of the generations who came before us and making sure that the arc of the moral universe continues to bend towards

Black bear on Virginia Tech campus in the Smithfield/cross country area.

Happy #MemeMonday! May all your favorite dissection tools be sharp!

Here we gooooo!!!! Starting our training with NikonUSA for our 🌟 new 🌟 CT scanner!! Watch for opportunities to come through Virginia Tech ICTAS! 🐊🦴💀🦎🪲🪨 Virginia Tech Science Geosciences at VT VT Biology Global Change Center ~ at Virginia Tech

We thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestion

New paper looking at the brainstem and cerebellum in patients with Chiari malformation. Conquer Chiari VCOM-Virginia Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…

New Research: Geometric morphometric analysis of the brainstem and cerebellum in Chiari I malformation frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Neuroanatomy

Academics: "As you will clearly observe in the following figure..." The figure:

We have to start emphasizing quality over quantity in student research exposure. The cheap CV pumping has to end.