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I’ll be sending this letter to the Royal Society, but I also want it out there in public, because I hope that more people will follow the lead set by Dorothy Bishop and Stephen Curry in putting pressure on the Royal Society to grow a backbone. Dear Royal Society of London, You exist to support the advancement of science.

How The Sausage Is MadeHuman AnatomyPeople We LikeStinkin' Appendicular ElementsStinkin' MammalsEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Author Matt Wedel

I have a new paper out: Ramnani, A.S., Landeros, J.T., Wedel, M., Moellmer, R., Wan, S., Shofler, D.W. 2025. Supernumerary muscles in the leg and foot: A review of their types, frequency, and clinical implications. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association 114(6): 9pp.

HaplocanthosaurusEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Author Matt Wedel

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FemurPapers Everyone Should ReadStinkin' Appendicular ElementsStinkin' MammalsWolvesEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Author Matt Wedel

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CaudalDiplodocidsNavel BloggingPneumaticityTornieriaEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Author Matt Wedel

Quick backstory: this post at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History led me to this post at Nothing Human, and poking around there led me to another good’un: “Shallow feedback hollows you out”. That post really hit for me, and it made me think about SV-POW!

AllosaurusDiplodocidsDorsalGiant Oklahoma ApatosaurineStinkin' MammalsEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Author Matt Wedel

Newly out in VAMP: Danison, Andy D., Wedel, Mathew J., Barta, Daniel E., Woodward, Holly N., Flora, Holley M., Lee, Andrew H., and Snively, Eric. 2024. Chimerism of specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12:81-114.

NecksStinkin' MammalsEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, it’s useful, and holy crap, the work that went into it is humbling. Note that of the 75 pages in the PDF, only about the first 20 are text, and the rest comprise two massive, exhaustively-researched and exhaustively-referenced tables. It’s free at VAMP.

ApatosaurusCervicalI'm StupidVentral ViewsEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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I happened to be reading back over Tutorial 34: How to document a specimen, when something caught my eye in the example photo we used of how to capture the label and appropriately positioned scalebar along with the specimen: {.size-full .wp-image-15793 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-15793” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“15793”

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For our wedding anniversary last year (30 years!), Fiona gave me the very wonderful Lego 21320 kit, Dinosaur Fossils, which builds into impressive skeletons of Tyrannosaurus , Triceratops and Pteranodon . This is a truly great kit and I’d encourage anyone to go out and find one.

MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArtArtEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All this happened on Twitter, and I wrote it up in an SV-POW! post with lots of embedded tweets. But with the progressing enshittification of Twitter (I refuse to call it X), that post is rendering less and less well, and at some point will probably fail completely.