@dlarson on blue. Collections Manager and Researcher/Palaeontology at the Royal BC Museum. Research: tooth shape and dietary preferences of reptiles. | he/him
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1 May 2024
Criminologist Jeff Shantz presents his analysis of the recent coroner's inquest into the police killing of Nona McEwan and Randy Crosson in Surrey, BC, in 2019.
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
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:
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Cops, city workers, privileged assholes: "They can stay at a shelter."
The shelter:
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Public Response Timeline to Duke University’s Decision to Divest its Herbarium
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Early‐diverging Titanosauriform (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Southeastern Inner Mongolia, Northeast China - ZHANG - 2024 - Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Derek Larson retweeted
29 Apr 2024
For the record, @AHS_media workers do not have “the right to not mask” with patients albertahealthservices.ca/top…
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
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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Derek Larson retweeted
29 Apr 2024
Alberta's flu death toll hits 15-year high, sparking calls for better immunization outreach
Latest from me👇
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Derek Larson retweeted
30 Apr 2024
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!
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Derek Larson retweeted
29 Apr 2024
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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Derek Larson retweeted
28 Apr 2024
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.
28 Apr 2024
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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Derek Larson retweeted
27 Apr 2024
I visited the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia yesterday and wanted to share a few
very brief observations.
First, it's one of the most highly organised student protests I've ever seen. They have media and de-escalation training, a nutzone to protest students with allergies.
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Derek Larson retweeted
27 Apr 2024
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.
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22 Apr 2024
What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections?
Absolutely everything.
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Derek Larson retweeted
26 Apr 2024
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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Derek Larson retweeted
26 Apr 2024
Duke University's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution!
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