David Bapst
dwbapst.bsky.social
David Bapst
@dwbapst.bsky.social
Paleontologist, Graptolite Geek, R Programmer, creator of paleotree, Tabletop Roleplaying Game Nerd, Catcher of Pokémon, faculty senator. All comments are my trash opinion alone.
Ohhh, birth records, that might be it. Lots of families with kids moved to Texas, so there might be lots of out of state kids who (if they stay here) should be Texan in ten years
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’m not sure decline seen in the Texas A&M plot matches what I see in the ACS 2023 demography — I don’t think we should see a decline at all in Texas for ten more years
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Brian do the ‘demographic cliff’ figures based only on demographic trends for the US as a whole (and thus only varying for each school based on the proportion of enrollment taken from each state, or do they account for each state’s projected demography?
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There’s also differences in how ctenorphores build their neurons, using different genes than other metazoans.

I am sure this will not be the last word on the subject…
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Reposted by David Bapst
Need a free-to-read preprint? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Figure caption: “An AI-generated reconstruction of what a 'drop croc', or mekosuchine crocodile…”

ughhh, BBC, I expected better from you
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Oh look, some monograptids
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM