An Invisibly Disabled Life: Ongoing Summary
Stomach-Churning Rating: 5/10; links show some of my health problems, and discuss them in not-always-so-uplifting detail. I’ve spent almost 10 years now blogging about my health problems, and it has...
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Jumbo Time
Back in November 2016 I got an exciting email from colleague Dr. Richard Thomas, who was building a team of experts for a proposed documentary on Jumbo the elephant; the famed proboscidean of the...
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Time
It has been almost three months since my last post here, and things have fallen quiet on our sister blog Anatomy to You, too. I thought it was time for an update, which is mostly a summary of stuff...
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Epilepsy Epilogue
I hadn’t been feeling very well for several weeks and then last night it happened. This post is a description of what it’s like to be an epileptic, written simply to document my experience. My goal...
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Life as a Diminishing Scientist
I’m now asked all the time how I’m holding up in light of recent changes in my life, and I have a hard time answering that question, as I am still not sure – except that I am still here, more or less....
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Elephant Feet. What Did You Expect?
I was recently featured on Daily Planet, a great Canadian science show on TV that lamentably is not broadcast more globally. It is always high quality science communication, aided by the superb hosts...
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Delight in the Museum
I have an impression that there is a large disparity between how the public views museums and how scientists who use museums view them. Presumably there are survey data on public attitudes, but surely...
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Shouldering the Burden of Uncertainty
I awoke on the floor in the aisle of my United Airlines flight to Los Angeles, with three unfamiliar men crouched around me, bearing serious expressions as they looked down on my prone body. I was next...
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Freezermas Day 5: Pigs’ Feet (Three Wonky Ones)
Sick feet, pig feet, boo hoo, in pain you are Not well heeled; fate sealed, oh no, inflamed they are And when your trotter’s on the floor You’re nearly a good boar Almost a porker (corrupted from Pink...
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Freezermas Day 4: DARWIN DAY- Quadrupedopheniaphilia (Trim My Hooves)
Why should you care If you have to trim my hooves? I’ve got to move with good feet Or be put down fast. I know I should trot But my old vet she cares a lot. And I’m still living on stone Even though...
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New Brother Blog: Veterinary Forensics!
Hey, a short post here to say go check this new blog out! I love it. The first main post-introductory post is a dissection of a snow leopard, documenting a real vet case attempting to figure out why it...
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Guest Post: Bringing the Heat with Rhino Feet!
Today, to help thaw you poor Americans out of that Arctic Vortex, we have a guest post bringing the heat, by my PhD student Sophie Regnault! This relates to some old posts about rhinos, which are a...
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What’s in John’s Pond?
Greetings, freezerinos! WIJF has been on hiatus this summer because my life has been freaking insane! ICVM conference with 3 talks (See earlier post), then grant deadlines, camping trip, packing and...
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A Blitz Through Bizarre Basal Birds
Less words, more pictures in this post, and I’ll get the one lame cake joke out of the way early. I’ve nearly finished my research blitz through the postcranial material of the NHM-Tring’s osteological...
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A WIJF Anatomy Vignette: A Hippopotamus Femur With Funky Pathology
I’m not sure if this is a new tradition at this blog or not (probably not), but hey let’s give it a name: an Anatomy Vignette. Just something curious I notice during my research that deserves more than...
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What’s in John’s Brain?
Good day, everyone. Maybe by the end of this post if you don’t agree that it is a good day, you will at least see why I think it is. Ten years ago today, something Really Bad happened to my brain. I...
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Mix and Match Anatomy: Chimeras, Jenny Hanivers and More
(The following post has a Stomach-Churning Rating of 3/10; the dried fish may not get you, but the bad jokes could. A respite before I slap some freezer-spawned Grand Guignolishness on you in future...
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Chicken Hearts, Meat and Myopathies
Here is a little vignette for you; a taster of the BBSRC-funded chicken biomechanics project my team has underway in collaboration with Jonathan Codd’s team at Uni Manchester. I did not know about the...
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I will go into more detail soon on the broader subject that this involves, but am posting this image as a teaser– what’s up with this foot from my freezer? Other than the obvious dead-ness and...
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