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Chad Yost

@phytolithologist.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Paleoecologist, micro-archaeobotanist, phytolithologist, gardener, fiddler, father

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 25

PHYTO-CHAT-L, the new email discussion list for anything #phytolith related is now up and running. Fill out the subscription form with your name, affiliation, and email address, and you will be subscribed to the list:

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Dec 20

I often mention studies like the one below to my students.

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Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard

New research has shown that writing by hand leads to higher brain connectivity than typing on a keyboard, highlighting the need to expose students to more handw

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Dec 18

Next semester I get to teach one of my favs - Microfossils in the Earth and Archaeological Sciences. #PaleoSky

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Dec 18

Teaching a 3/3 load is challenging while trying to conduct research, but teaching many different classes across a two-year rotation is the most challenging part. I've prepped nine different classes so far, none of which are seminar-style. One of those changed books and required a new partial prep!

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Dec 18

Grades are submitted! It's such a relief to see ZERO Canvas app notifications. Best of all, for the first time in 4 years, I have no new course preps next semester. I can actually enjoy winter break! Applied Time Series Analysis was my new prep last semester, and it was brutal, but I'm proud of it!

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Dec 3

A lady across the street has one that she grows in a container (it’s over 6 feet tall) and then she lets it go dormant in her garage over the winter. She recently asked if I wanted cuttings and I said yes. But with kids and a dog, I’m not so sure anymore!

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 28

That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 26

CaOx morphotypes I recovered from extinct groud sloth dung!

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 25

Yet another cool tool!

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 25

Subscription request for the PHYTO-CHAT-L discussion list

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 24

Cool tool!

Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Nov 11

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 23

I recently used @blueark.app to import some of my past Twitter posts that now appear below my backyard blue sky post.

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 20

Same. Initially, science Twitter was great, then of course we all know what’s happened after the sale. This space is so refreshing and reminds me of the “old days” on Twitter.

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking forward to it!

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 19

Yes, I plan on going to the IMPR in Barcelona.

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Martin Hodson @martinjhodson.bsky.social · Nov 19

I thought I would make a starter pack of scientists working on #phytoliths. Please share if this is of interest to you, and do ask if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/8HEDmb9

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 19

Great idea. Thanks for doing this!

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 18

I just switched my professional/ research social presence from the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter. Here’s a little blue sky from my back yard this past summer.

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

On my way to the 13th International Meeting on Phytolith Research being held at the Dead Sea Research Institute, Israel. #13IMPR

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

A visit to Friedrich the Great’s summer residence in Potsdam, Germany before the start of the @icdpDrilling conference @GFZ_Potsdam

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

Having fun with #phytoliths and ChatGPT

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

Is #ModernReferenceMonday a thing? #Kava (Piper methysticum var. kalihi) tabular facetate leaf #phytoliths. This plant was grown, collected, and sent to me from Hawaiʻi for an archaeological/ancient agriculture project I worked on several years ago.

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

I’m growing Oaxacan green dent corn in a plot at the ISU community garden this summer for #phytolith, and #starchgranule reference material. We will be looking at phytolith and starch degradation after grinding, #nixtamalization, and cooking steps. @EESatISU @indianastate

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

#FossilFriday ~300 Ma black shale with a fossilized #bryozoan (cf. Rhombopora sp.) and a few lithified coal clasts. Found in a creek bed when hiking with the family a few weeks ago here in Vigo Co, IN - USA. Cleaned this up with bleach, H2O rinse, and then 10% HCl. #carboniferous

Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 22

I was making some #phytolith microscope slides at home and ran out of the fingernail polish that I use to seal coverslips. My wife said “I have some, but it’s like 20 years old.” It was my preferred brand for slide making! #Wet_n_Wild