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Brian O'Meara
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I study diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & similar questions, often using new methods. Also random coding projects. College prof living in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. Opinions my own. He/Him
I thought this was a #2025SVP post at first.

Though the idea of having all the best “public talk but only to those who can afford registration, travel, and visas” people compete with a modern US college football team is interesting…
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Or as they call it in the Harvard astronomy department, “life on Mars confirmed to be rainbow space narwhal”
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I mean, it could be they're *more* open than most. No posts from #SBP2025 (Society for Boneless Paleontology), for example. ;-)
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I mean, by the standard of “hey, sorta looks like = deextinct” it’s already happened: scaly herps dropping onto animals below from trees:

weather.com/nature/wild-...
Falling Iguana Weather Has Arrived In Florida | Weather.com
As the coldest air of the season dips into South Florida, residents could witness the state’s quirkiest winter tradition: falling iguana season, when cold-stunned reptiles lose their grip and tumble f...
weather.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposted by Brian O'Meara
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
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November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks! Peter Wainwright started a conversation at UC Davis on how rate and disparity could be different and how best to measure this, leading eventually to this paper.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM