@dlarson on blue. Collections Manager and Researcher/Palaeontology at the Royal BC Museum. Research: tooth shape and dietary preferences of reptiles. | he/him

Victoria, British Columbia
Joined November 2012
Here’s what Canada is doing (and not doing) to watch for #H5N1 amid an explosive outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle — and why Canadian scientists warn we’re already way behind this virus without active surveillance. New from me: cbc.ca/news/health/bird-flu-…
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This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.
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Cops, city workers, privileged assholes: "They can stay at a shelter." The shelter:
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Public Response Timeline to Duke University’s Decision to Divest its Herbarium herbarium.duke.edu/
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For the record, @AHS_media workers do not have “the right to not mask” with patients albertahealthservices.ca/top…
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The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3UetV8E
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1/6 ⏰⏰ New publication with @TJNear in @ZoolJLinnSoc ! We describe a big new fish from 10 million years after the impact that killed the dinosaurs. Introducing †Amia basiloides, or, as we've nicknamed it, the big a** bowfin! doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z… #fossils #paleontology
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The data speaks for itself from the SRO research study. This is the school to prison pipeline. Programs that provide benefits to some vs enormous harms to others need to be turfed in favor of better programs and solutions.
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If you say you support #blacklivesmatter or indigenous anti-racism, or safety for special needs students, the stats and outcomes are clear: you cannot support a permanent police presence in schools.
Great letter from @SOSAlberta about why #epsb trustees need to say no to SROs on Tuesday. Send your own letter via @PIAlberta pialberta.org/no_to_sros
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Can we...just accept that we suck at this? I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton. xitter.cf/HillaryClinton/status/…
What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections? Absolutely everything. carbonbrief.org/analysis-tru…
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Journey to the Anderson River in N.W.T. on a search for ancient fish fossils with @MuseumofNature paleobiologist Tetsuto Miyashita, Ph.D and his team. Among the discoveries is a large fossil of a primitive member of the lungfish lineage. youtu.be/uOmMPgfowfU?feature… #FossilFriday
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Duke University's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution! drive.google.com/file/d/1ist…
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