Earth and related Environmental SciencesWordPress.com

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

SV-POW! ... All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. ISSN 3033-3695
Home PageAtom FeedISSN 3033-3695
language
Published
Author Matt Wedel

Here’s a fascinating and worrying news story in Science: a top US researcher apparently falsified a lot of images (at least) in papers that helped get experimental drugs on the market — papers that were published in top journals for years, and whose problems have only recently become apparent because of amateur sleuthing through PubPeer. I’m going to wane philosophical for a minute.

Published
Author Matt Wedel

If you want to find the paleontology and anatomy videos that Mike and I have done (plus one video about open access), they have their own sidebar page now, for your convenience and for our own. It’s, uh, just to the right of where your eyes are pointing right now.

Published
Author Matt Wedel

{.size-large .wp-image-22233 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“22233” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2024/06/13/quick-pix-of-jimbo-the-wyoming-supersaurus/2024-06-07-tate-alcova-11/” orig-file=“https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-07-tate-alcova-11.jpg” orig-size=“3024,4032” comments-opened=“1” image-meta=“{"aperture":"1.6","credit":"","camera":"iPhone

Published
Author Matt Wedel

{.aligncenter .wp-image-22214 .size-large loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“22214” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2024/06/09/the-sauropod-heresies-my-tate-2024-abstract-and-handout/wedel-2024-tate-handout-final/” orig-file=“https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/wedel-2024-tate-handout-final.jpg” orig-size=“1500,1950” comments-opened=“1”

Published
Author Matt Wedel

{.size-large .wp-image-22161 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“22161” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2024/06/01/its-national-dinosaur-day/matt-loves-apatosaurus-v2/” orig-file=“https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/matt-loves-apatosaurus-v2.jpg” orig-size=“769,966” comments-opened=“1”

Published
Author Matt Wedel

New paper out today with Logan King, Julia McHugh, and Brian Curtice, on pneumatic ribs in Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus (King et al. 2024). This one had an unusual gestation. In the summer of 2002 2022 I did a road trip to Utah and western Colorado with my friend and frequent collaborator Jessie Atterholt.

Published
Author Matt Wedel

This is one of those things that has been sitting in my brain, gradually heating up and getting denser, until it achieved criticality, melted down my spinal cord, and rocketed out my fingers and through the keyboard. Stand by for caffeine-fueled testifyin’ mode.