Start here if you don’t know anything about sauropod vertebrae, photographing specimens, or becoming a paleontologist.
- Tutorial 1: Regions of the vertebral column
- Tutorial 2: Basic vertebral anatomy
- Tutorial 3: Pneumaticity
- Tutorial 4: Laminae!
- Tutorial 5: Neurocentral Fusion
- Tutorial 6: Air-space proportion in pneumatic sushi
- Tutorial 7: The sauropod family tree
- Tutorial 8: How to photograph big bones
- Tutorial 9: How to get copies of academic papers
- Tutorial 10: How to become a palaeontologist
- Tutorial 11: Graphic Double Integration, or, weighing dinosaurs on the cheap
- Tutorial 12: How to find problems to work on
- Tutorial 12b: Too far may not be far enough
- Tutorial 13: How to dissect a neck
- Tutorial 14: How to actually write a paper
- Tutorial 15: The bones of the sauropod skeleton
- Tutorial 15b: The bones of the theropod skeleton (which are exactly the same)
- Tutorial 16: Giving good talks
- Tutorial 17: preparing illustrations
- Tutorial 18: how to have fruitful discussions in your blog’s comments
- Tutorial 19: Open Access definitions and clarifications,
- Tutorial 20: how to measure necks using Duplo
- Tutorial 21: how to measure the length of a centrum
- Tutorial 22: how to get a “nearly finished” paper over the finishing line
- Tutorial 23: How to avoid giving your work to a “predatory open access publisher”
- Tutorial 24: variables for tubular bones, ASP, MSP, and bone density


November 30, 2010 at 7:30 am
Congratulations for the superb blog!
February 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm
[...] Picture of the Week). It’s on “How to find problems to work on” and is part of a longer tutorial series on basically everything the folks at SV-POW can think of. Normally, I would skim over the point, [...]
September 7, 2011 at 11:21 pm
[...] should have done this long ago. Back in the early tutorials, we covered skeletal details such as regions of the vertebral column, basic vertebral anatomy, [...]
October 11, 2011 at 12:12 am
[...] don’t intend to write lengthy, exhaustive tutorials the way the SVPOW guys do. They are much better at it than I am, and I’d be covering a lot of double ground. Also, I [...]