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Caleb M. Gordon
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Vertebrate paleobiologist interested in using AI to understand the history of life on Earth. PhD @ Yale, Postdoc @ FLMNH.
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Thanks so much, @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Your feedback throughout was greatly appreciated :)
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Shout out to my co-authors Lisa Freisem (@freisem.bsky.social), Chris Griffin (@griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social), Jacques Gauthier, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, and to the hundreds of museum staff, curators, and public institutions that make research like this possible 🙏
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
And, if you’d like to see what we found out about your favorite ancient reptile, you can check out the original paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes
Among mammals and reptiles, the recurring evolution of fully aquatic forms from land-dwelling ancestors highlights the remarkable powers and implicati…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Check out Jim Shelton’s awesome story on our paper to learn more: news.yale.edu/2025/11/20/b...
Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?
A new study offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.
news.yale.edu
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
‘Walking in Your Footsteps’ by The Police is great and under-appreciated as a dinosaur song
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Cool stuff! Congrats @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is one of my favorite books. I’ll be sure to check out The Humans too :)
October 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Woww stunning!
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thanks Lauren! Much appreciated :)
June 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Many thanks to @the-node.bsky.social for hosting this story and to @noonanlab.bsky.social (especially Reem Abu-Shamma and Jim Noonan) for their interviews and feedback!
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Thanks for this shout-out, @rwburroughs.bsky.social! I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I hope it did your original article justice 😎
May 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanks so much Armita!
May 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks for letting me write this, @sicbjournals.bsky.social! I hope Burroughs et al. enjoy it!
May 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Huge congrats, Xavier! Well deserved!
April 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thank you so much, Armita! I’m so glad to hear that my enthusiasm survived grad school.

I’m grateful for this kind post and really do appreciate all your generous help throughout the process :)
February 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thanks Jeanne!! I appreciate it :)
February 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thanks so much, @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Much appreciated :)
February 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ooh exciting! Can’t wait to read it.
February 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM