One of my favorite poems from the last 50 years.

Definitely true.

Hey Ben,
The museum is its own separately funded unit, so while this hurts, and directly affects our curators and interns from EAS, UNSM including Ashfall and Trailside remains open and active.

That said, we are gutted. EAS have been allies and partners with the museum for a hundred years. No more.

Look at her: A kid from Nebraska who wants to know how the world around her works, but wants to stay close to her family and community while doing so.

She could do it when UNL thought Nebraskans deserved to. She DID do it!

The next generation, though? They can't anymore.

I expect most geo-aspiring students will look to Kansas. But CO, SD, and IA may benefit some.

But one problem with geo/atmo is that it's not a field many people come in to college knowing about. They join after being exposed *in* college. So now more NE kids are robbed of that.

That's awful, Colin. I'm so chagrined we've come to this pass. Sorry you had to make these calls.

So depressed by this. More or less just got here and already I'm watching co-workers get fired for no discernable reason, bright undergrads left homeless.
It's a shame, in the old sense, as in, they should be ashamed.

Look: you gotta make sure, okay?

Trust, but verify.

You joke, but cutting up a lot of Xiphactinus would probably bring joy to both of us.

(But to be fair:
A new microraptorine theropod from the Jehol Biota and growth in early dromaeosaurids
Anat Rec

Absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex
Science

An oviraptorosaur adult-egg association from the Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province
JVP

... and others in review.)

(I was a peer reviewer on this paper, and read it before I saw the Zanno & Napoli paper. It was this new Griffin et al. paper--which has taken awhile to work through the publication pipeline--that actually first convinced me that Nanotyrannus was probably real).