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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.

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The Rebor model of Saurophaganax “Notorious BIG Jungle Variant”, photo from the Big Bad Toy Store. The SVP 2024 abstract book dropped earlier this week. You can download it here.

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I asked ChatGPT a very simple question: Here is the “solution” it suggested: That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Here’s the screenshot if you don’t believe me: This is a particularly lovely demonstration of the emptiness of LLMs. It recognises the words from the classic river-crossing puzzle, and generates a sequence of words resembling those to a solution. But they are entirely devoid of meaning.

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Luke Horton asked in a comment on a recent post: *FACEPALM* How we’ve gone almost 17 years without posting about a hypothetical sauropod dissection is quite beyond my capacity. I am also contractually obligated to remind you that the TV show “Inside Nature’s Giants” shows dissections of a whale, elephant, giraffe, tiger, anaconda, giant squid, etc., so it’s probably the closest we’ll ever get.

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[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in early 2020, but…you know how that particular story turned out.

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Trunk vertebra of a tuna ( Thunnus ), OMNH RE 0042, showing paired bony spinal cord supports Here’s a grab-bag of follow-up stuff related to our new paper on neural canal ridges in dinos (Atterholt et al. 2024, see the previous post and sidebar page). Neural canal ridges, or bony spinal cord supports? I got into the habit of calling the inwardly-projecting bony prominences in the neural canals of sauropods and other