Short online essays
"Nature's Beauty is Historical," APA Blog (18 April, 2023)
With Adrian Currie, "The Future Geologist and the Anthropocene," Extinct (1 August, 2019).
With Joyce Havstad, "Hype and Trust: A Discussion of Elizabeth D. Jones's Paper, "From Ancient Genetics to Ancient Genomics: Celebrity and Credibility in Data-Driven Science," Extinct (1 June, 2019)
"Not in my Boneyard: Why the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) is Suing the Trump Administration," Extinct (1 April, 2019)
With Adrian Currie, "Data, Text, and Simulation: Alisa Bokulich's 'Using Models to Correct Data: Paleodiversity and the Fossil Record," Extinct (1 February, 2019)
"A Metasequoia Moment," Extinct (1 October, 2018)
"History and Value," Extinct (20 April, 2018)
"Remeasuring Pisanosaurus," Extinct (November 13, 2017)
"Dinosaur at the Gas Station," Extinct (October 16, 2017)
"Natural Theology Still Shapes How We Think About Fossils," Extinct (September 11, 2017)
"Adding Mary Anning: Reflections on Confederate Nostalgia, Counterfactual History, and the History of Paleontology,"
Extinct (August 14, 2017)
"The Transformative Value of Fossils," Extinct (July 10, 2017)
"Gypsy Moths and Devonian Invasions," Extinct (June 12, 2017)
"From the War of Nature," Extinct (May 8, 2017)
"Some Questions About Dinosaur Hips," Extinct (April 10, 2017)
"The Wilderness Before Time," Extinct (March 7, 2017)
"Four Features of Historical Counterfactuals," Extinct (February 6, 2017)
With Adrian Currie, "The Missing Fossils Matter as Much as the Ones We Have Found," Aeon Magazine (January 19, 2017)
"Science Religion, and Bad Poetry," Extinct (January 2, 2017)
"Artificial Species Selection," Extinct (November 21, 2016)
"Why Don't They Call It Stagnating Selection?" Extinct (October 24, 2017)
"Site-Specific Teaching in New England's Dinosaur Country," Extinct (September 26, 2016)
"Are Dinosaurs Overrated?" Extinct (August 22, 2016)
"Paleoaesthetics in the Bisti Badlands," Extinct (July 25, 2016)
"The Macroevolutionary Puzzle of the Cycads," Extinct (June 20, 2016)
"Leave No Trace: Reflections on Cryptobiology, Living Fossils, and Pseudoscience," Extinct (May 23, 2016)
"Extinction and Expiration Dates: A Conversation with Joyce Havstad About Species Selection," Extinct (April 18, 2016)
"Conservation Paleobiology," Extinct (March 21, 2016)
"Nemesis Strikes Back: Lisa Randall's Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs," Extinct (February 15. 2016)
"What If Prehistory," Extinct (January 18, 2016)
"Plus Ca Change and the Importance of Going Extinct," Extinct (January 4, 2016)
With Adrian Currie, "The Future Geologist and the Anthropocene," Extinct (1 August, 2019).
With Joyce Havstad, "Hype and Trust: A Discussion of Elizabeth D. Jones's Paper, "From Ancient Genetics to Ancient Genomics: Celebrity and Credibility in Data-Driven Science," Extinct (1 June, 2019)
"Not in my Boneyard: Why the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) is Suing the Trump Administration," Extinct (1 April, 2019)
With Adrian Currie, "Data, Text, and Simulation: Alisa Bokulich's 'Using Models to Correct Data: Paleodiversity and the Fossil Record," Extinct (1 February, 2019)
"A Metasequoia Moment," Extinct (1 October, 2018)
"History and Value," Extinct (20 April, 2018)
"Remeasuring Pisanosaurus," Extinct (November 13, 2017)
"Dinosaur at the Gas Station," Extinct (October 16, 2017)
"Natural Theology Still Shapes How We Think About Fossils," Extinct (September 11, 2017)
"Adding Mary Anning: Reflections on Confederate Nostalgia, Counterfactual History, and the History of Paleontology,"
Extinct (August 14, 2017)
"The Transformative Value of Fossils," Extinct (July 10, 2017)
"Gypsy Moths and Devonian Invasions," Extinct (June 12, 2017)
"From the War of Nature," Extinct (May 8, 2017)
"Some Questions About Dinosaur Hips," Extinct (April 10, 2017)
"The Wilderness Before Time," Extinct (March 7, 2017)
"Four Features of Historical Counterfactuals," Extinct (February 6, 2017)
With Adrian Currie, "The Missing Fossils Matter as Much as the Ones We Have Found," Aeon Magazine (January 19, 2017)
"Science Religion, and Bad Poetry," Extinct (January 2, 2017)
"Artificial Species Selection," Extinct (November 21, 2016)
"Why Don't They Call It Stagnating Selection?" Extinct (October 24, 2017)
"Site-Specific Teaching in New England's Dinosaur Country," Extinct (September 26, 2016)
"Are Dinosaurs Overrated?" Extinct (August 22, 2016)
"Paleoaesthetics in the Bisti Badlands," Extinct (July 25, 2016)
"The Macroevolutionary Puzzle of the Cycads," Extinct (June 20, 2016)
"Leave No Trace: Reflections on Cryptobiology, Living Fossils, and Pseudoscience," Extinct (May 23, 2016)
"Extinction and Expiration Dates: A Conversation with Joyce Havstad About Species Selection," Extinct (April 18, 2016)
"Conservation Paleobiology," Extinct (March 21, 2016)
"Nemesis Strikes Back: Lisa Randall's Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs," Extinct (February 15. 2016)
"What If Prehistory," Extinct (January 18, 2016)
"Plus Ca Change and the Importance of Going Extinct," Extinct (January 4, 2016)
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