Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hooookay Schedule my presentation on Shabbat once, shame on random chance Schedule my presentation on Shabbat twice, shame on me for not making the importance of Shabbat clear Schedule my presentation on Shabbat thrice??? Shame on SVP. Shame. **SHAME.** Shamey SHAMEY shame SHAME. 010
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1838... In case you want this photo on a mug or somethingredbubble.comDinosaurs Old and New by DinosaurBiology | RedbubbleTwo cockatiels taking off in flight. They were previously perched on two dinosaur toys - an Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus. The Allosaurus has fallen because of the cockatiel taking off from it. 141
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Shana Tova!!!!! Shabbat Shalom!!!!!! May 5787 be an (extremely long) year of better things for everyone 050
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Cassandra 🦕🖌 @tenontosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"there must be something in our car it thinks it wants" 47228
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026If Doctor Who and The Magic School Bus had a child, it would be Black Hole High (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High) 100
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026WHY IS LANCE BASS TRYING TO SELL ME METAMUCIL WHAT EVEN IS THIS REALITY 130
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Quick sketch of a large Terror Bird, something along the lines of Kelenken, Titanis, or Devincenzia. These huge flightless birds were apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic, and had a brief reign in southern North America until the beginning of the ice age. #paleoart #sciart #cenozoic 110125
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Ftr, the very existence of a paper arguing to go with a gamete definition of biological sex is, by its own admission, proof positive that biosex is a model, and not real, because they’re arguing which model to go with 🤷🏻 031
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026if you found this thread enlightening/amusing/vindicating/useful, consider donating to a local org that focuses on housing queer youth in Alaska: choosingourroots.networkforgood.com/projects/196...choosingourroots.networkforgood.comSafe Homes, Supportive CommunitiesOur work of building community and providing housing support and case management for LGBTQIA2S+ young people is impossible without all of you! Choosing Our Roots is a non-profit operating in the Alas... 010521
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026oh well would you look at that, a fluorescent red flag 41725
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026"sex is binary and just gametes, but also please don't use this paper to take away anyone's civil rights. and actually when you think about it, the real problem is those activists bringing that queer stuff into biology" 11628
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026just what is even your point then. gametes are the most important definition of sex because everything is downstream of them, but also there's a lot of variation that isn't from gametes, therefore biological sex is gametes i've read better arguments in Intro Bio papers 11786
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026oh good, my blood pressure wasn't doing anything alarming right now, so i'm sure this will be fine for me to read 11594
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026again, the point of the model is in the flexibility. if you're studying super deep-time evolution of sexual reproduction, gametes are the character to use. but for many of use, the operative traits will be something else. 11616
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026our whole argument was that for many organisms, trying to condense all of these characteristics into a single variable was counterproductive and misleading, and the point was to be thoughtful + specific about what sexual phenotypes were driving your classification 420614
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026that whooshing noise was you missing THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POINT OF THE PAPER MY GUY 21939
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026but your whole cascade model is doing exactly that!!! quit talking out of both sides of your mouth!!!!!!! 21634
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026*rubs temples* no, that's not our argument. we didn't say "oh boy, this is too complicated!" and end there. we said sex is a *complex phenotype* (aka one made of multiple component characteristics that are each subject to their own evolutionary pressures) and gamete size may not be the most relevant 120415
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/20261 and 2 are...well, i mean, they're interesting from an evolutionary perspective. idk whether the first is very useful because there's a lot of other types of differentiation in reproductive roles, and some may be more relevant to understanding specific systems. 11354
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026YES THIS IS WHY WE SAY THAT A MULTIVARIATE MODEL OF SEX IS BETTER BECAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR EXACTLY THIS SORT OF THING because the phenotypes associated with reproduction are each being acted on by multiple evolutionary pressures and aren't all simply downstream consequences of gamete size!!! 224220
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026the reason we argue to be precise about this is that we use the male/female descriptors for anatomy, physiology, behavior, genetics, etc. so saying "ah but it simply means large/small gamete!" is pretty pointedly hiding the ball imo, seeming to attempt to *encourage* conflation. 422213
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026look i fucking hate arguing about terminology but one of the big reasons to steer away from using "egg=female, sperm=male" is that while you can try to set that as a scientific definition, you and i both damn well know that's not what those terms mean in most contexts. 320719
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026okay so here's where my head explodes. because if you define biological sex as binary based on gametes, but then concede that organisms can produce either, both, or none, and thus do not fall into two classes, then *what is the point of trying to say it's a binary*?????????????????????????????????? 1045785
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026update: (and if you need it: sci-hub.ru/10.1038/2723...)sci-hub.ruSci-Hub: проверка на робота 321117
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026i know i'm being very salty considering i said i was trying to approach this in good faith but i think we just hit where i am having a hard time assuming the authors are writing this in good faith. so. 22344
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026hang on i need to grab a soda, we're only two paragraphs in and this is going to be even worse than the dire wolf paper isn't it 42418
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Emma Hilton...well, she's currently crowdfunding a cheek-swab SRY test so random transphobes can force people to "prove" they're not trans 323924
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026(he also had a bunch of his papers retracted, but it was because Pruitt was his advisor and idk the extent to which Colin knew about the data fabrication- plenty of collaborators got hit by that too who didn't know, so i don't actually hold that against his record) 21988
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Colin Wright, for those of you lucky enough to be unaware of him, is a failed evolutionary biologist who first rose to fame by his refusal to submit DEIA statements in faculty job applications, and has since mainly used his credentials to burnish anti-trans, anti-queer, and racist pseudoscience 331730
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026oh. oh boy. now citing someone doesn't necessarily mean you agree with them (after all, this paper cites me and so far seems like we don't agree!) but umm that sure seems to be complimentary citations of Emma Hilton and Colin Wright, which immediately is red flags over here. 225615
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026how sexual phenotypes and the internal experience of gender overlap is a messy topic that i think the authors aren't quite ready for, but i usually put it this way: gender is how an organism relates to sexual phenotype and roles in a social context. we can only get info on that for humans. 232524
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026...we're forced to justify ourselves and examine how our standing influences our practice of science in a way majoritarians aren't usually called upon to do. 232913
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026HOWEVER. we *all* are influenced in our practice of science by our own identity and cultural frameworks. it's not just those of us on the multivariate side that do this- all participants in this conversation are, and some of us are more self-aware of that, usually because as minorities... 244130
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026here's the thing: this gets brought up to argue against those of us who argue for reconceptualizations of sex, oftentimes pointedly remarking that many of us doing so are trans, nonbinary, intersex, or otherwise gender nonconforming. yes, the fact i'm nonbinary shapes how i consider this topic. 238618
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026see i mean there's your first problem. the reason we've offered alternative models is all the places where it turns out things aren't universal. 139923
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 07/07/2026Raise your hand if you ever tried to warn people in your personal or professional circles about a guy with clear, overt Nazi shit going on and got a “doesn’t look like anything to me” 68814
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Controversial take, but using the word “primitive” in 2026 is a giant red flag 120
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em) Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026🚨SCREENSHOTS FROM THE FIRST TRAILER OF #EvolutionWithChrisPackham , coming 13 JULY! METASPRIGGINA, NUMIDOTHERIUM AND OTHER CREATURES NEVER SEEN ON-SCREEN BEFORE WILL BE FEATURED! 55316
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Don’t forget erythromelalgia as the heat continues to worsen. We could not be more affected by this, but no one remembers us. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...my.clevelandclinic.orgErythromelalgia: Symptoms, Causes, TreatmentErythromelalgia causes episodes of burning pain in the feet and other extremities. Symptom flares can slow you down, but you can still live a good quality of life. 010
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)PaleoSteno🐬🦕🦄 @paleosteno.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I recently saw a post saying, "Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars, everything is now 200 dollars." And for that reason I don't think I'll ever shame anyone asking for financial help for any reason because shit's been so fucked lately. 71288507
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Bob Bakker is like if a Primus song was a person 081
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Finally got around to watching “The Dinosaurs” so have my very professional thoughts www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...tumblr.comPost by @a-dinosaur-a-day💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 17 · Netflix's "The Dinosaurs" · alright I finally got around to watching netflix's "The Dinosaurs" (Don't become a paleontologist kids, it turns watching dinosaur related things from… 011
Meig Dickson (ey/em) @kulindadromeus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026WOOOOOOOOOOOOO youtu.be/G6-yj80Guxg?...youtu.bePlanet Zoo 2 - Announce TrailerYouTube video by Planet Zoo 2 170
Reposted by Meig Dickson (ey/em)Nathan E. Rogers @nathanerogers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Kulindadromeus Middle Jurassic, Asia Digital painting made with #Krita. #Paleoart #SciArt #illustration #art #dinosaur #ornithischian #NaturalHistory 110727