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April Wright
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Statistical phylogenetics and the fossil record. Researcher, professor and mentor at a PUI. Mother, reader, runner. Congenital optimist. Minnesotan Virginian.
I’m a moderate on this - I have a relative who runs a CPC adjacent clinic and her perspective was def both. We vote for the right direction, but also we have a larger plan and whoever is useful is useful and we boil the frog

An infundibulum, if one were.
January 13, 2026 at 2:33 AM
What happened after Empire Records
January 13, 2026 at 1:21 AM
And in the words of America’s best bar band, we are our only saviors. We have to value courage. youtu.be/HVwVHTB_yEs?...
Constructive Summer
YouTube video by The Hold Steady - Topic
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
And that’s not a social media thing. In P&T, value resources, software, theory, and taxonomy that might be undervalued. We are the ones to make the values. Make them.
January 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Democratize your means of research? In favor.
January 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Yeah, that's fair. I'm not sure I've ever seen it used properly by a student. Sort of like passive voice. Used properly, it makes sense. Used improperly, it sounds like a ghost did your lab work.
January 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Yes, she was a stray who, for years, would come up to my colleague's friend's house to be fed with some other ferals. After the friend passed away, my colleague gave her to us because he was worried she wouldn't survive on her own
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
It's as very weird summary of a lot of work. For example, this paper produced by the working group *does* show quite a few concrete economic benefits: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
The economic impact of open science: a scoping review
Abstract. This article summarizes a comprehensive scoping review of the economic impact of open science (OS), examining empirical evidence from 2000 to 202
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Book makes me feel pretty good about the wave of millennial sci fi that’s starting to hit
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I personally have a genetic condition where I don’t hold on to salt well. Shed it easily. Harmless so long as my intake is high. I discovered it when I was getting blackouts after running in Texas from plummeting sodium levels from sweating
December 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
RevBayes: Time-heterogeneous FIG (TimeFIG) model
revbayes.github.io
December 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM