A friend asked if we eat its flowers here, yet to us even observing the banana is a novelty; it’s a space station situation. The only natural light it’s seen would be the few summer rays filtered by the windows. It decided to live despite our forgetfulness, in a fully enclosed synthetic environment.

Listen, I’m far up North and we grew it indoors on hydroponics and I have never seen a banana flower so this is a very big deal right now

My apartment-grown banana plant has started flowering

Here’s Tallinn 😩

What has math got to do with dinosaurs? 🦕

Here's an intro to my #simulation work on plausible ecosystems of the Permian-Triassic where I created probabilistic networks of ancient feeding behaviors based on a collection of fossil specimens.

#paleontology #paleo #complexity #scicomm