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@jackstack.bsky.social

Side note but one of my goals is to have a hypothesis with a cool name. “Red Queen”, “Elvis taxa”, why do we let the invert people get all the cool ones?

Jack Stack@jackstack.bsky.social

Being a scientist is thinking you have a brilliant original idea and then seeing someone had the exact same idea in the 80's.

13/10/26, 4:19 pm0 reposts7 likes

J Pardo

@jdpardo.bsky.social

Van Valen explicitly referenced a bunch of mammal data in the Red Queen paper.

Jack Stack

@jackstack.bsky.social

Good point but what’s the best name a vert worker has given something?

J Pardo

@jdpardo.bsky.social

Tyrannosaurus rex

Jack Stack

@jackstack.bsky.social

My fault for not being specific enough, we are good at taxon names though.