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AquilopsLegoStinkin' OrnithischiansToysEarth and related Environmental Scienceslanguages.ca
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Author Matt Wedel

I’m kidding, of course. It will continue no matter what. Loads of more and better photos of the upcoming Aquilops Lego sets — yes, sets, plural — thanks to the Brothers Brick. What’s that other thing included in this jeep-and-raptor set? It’s a teensy widdle Aquilops of teensiness! And it’s pretty darned accurate! I don’t see a lot of room for improvement at minifig scale.

AquilopsArtBig Tough Sauropodologists Throwing Away Their DignityBrian EnghStinkin' OrnithischiansEarth and related Environmental Scienceslanguages.ca
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Author Matt Wedel

Aquilops turned 10 years old in December. For all of that time, I’ve been waiting for Aquilops toys. I mean COME ON people, it’s an adorable little cat-ceratops, the only one of its kind so far in North America, how do we have multiple toys of Kaprosuchus and no Aquilops yet?

Shiny Digital FutureStinkin' PublishersEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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Clarivate is the content-hoarding corporation that owns ProQuest, the Web of Science and EndNote, among many other services widely used in academia. Plus a ton of content. Today’s announcement, “Introducing ProQuest Digital Collections, a new library subscription offering unparalleled breadth, value and access”, sounds nice, doesn’t it? And the first few paragraphs are certainly full of praise for the changes they’re making.

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Here’s a Mastodon thread from a year ago. Just a quick check on how ChatGPT’s getting on … Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when? ChatGPT: The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, Giraffatitan, by the paleontologist Michael Janensch in 1914.

Stinkin' InvertebratesEarth and related Environmental Sciences
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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.

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

Jessie Atterholt and I are helping one of our students write up a pathological dinosaur bone (you’ll definitely hear more about this in time), and we needed a good example paper for our student to use as a model. We chose several, but for me the standout was Scott et al. (2015), and that’s the one I’m focusing on here.

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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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.