It’s all just too awful
March 13, 2017
It’s been pretty quiet around here, huh?
Why?
It’s all just too awful to write about sauropod vertebrae at the moment.
Trump. Brexit. Perverse incentives in academia. I can’t even get up enough enthusiasm to do the revisions for my own accepted-with-revisions manuscripts, let along write blog-posts.
Oh, western civilisation. And you were doing so well.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
March 13, 2017 at 10:56 pm
Aye, alas…
March 14, 2017 at 12:11 am
Believe me… I can fully understand you.
March 14, 2017 at 7:33 am
Seriously.
(And you forgot Syria, Russia and Turkey.)
March 14, 2017 at 7:40 am
Amen
March 17, 2017 at 2:03 am
Hang in there, Mike. I know how you feel. My life has been pretty unpleasant in the last few months too; sometimes I don’t have the energy to do work. Hopefully you can get your spirits up. I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on sauropodomorph vertebrae and open access publishing.
March 17, 2017 at 7:54 am
Thanks, Jason, I appreciate that. The irony here is that my life is great at the moment: I am enjoying my day-job enormously, my eldest son is off at university having a great time, and I own more walnut whips than at any other time in my life. It’s just the world at large that’s falling apart.
March 17, 2017 at 6:12 pm
My apologies for misunderstanding! And happy belated birthday, Mike!
March 17, 2017 at 6:17 pm
No problem, Jason!
March 18, 2017 at 12:49 am
But the world at large is so much more depressing when I see that none of my paleo-bloggers have updated recently! Even if all you did from now on was post a single picture every so often with the caption “guess that vertebrae”, that would still brighten my day. And I think it might brighten yours to see us have at it. :)
March 18, 2017 at 9:35 am
Sorry, Andrew — you are right, of course, that when things happen to fall such that we don’t have anything to write for a while, we should post a sauropod vertebra picture.
March 18, 2017 at 9:39 pm
I understand how you feel. It seems like everyday I’m getting alerts from the Sierra Club, SPLC, etc regarding a terrible thing that just happened while I wasn’t looking. It’s darn scary.
Chase