Start here if you’d like to know more 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 4b: Saurischian laminae and fossae redux, by Adam Marsh
- 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 15c: The bones of the ornithischian skeleton (which are also exactly the same)
- Tutorial 16: Giving good talks
- Tutorial 17: preparing illustrations
- Part 0: colour-balancing in thirty seconds
- Part 1: use colour
- (Part 2: how to do stippling: part of Vicki’s book, Broken Bones, is out!)
- Part 3: Adding shading to röck döts
- Part 4: go big
- 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
- Tutorial 25: How to Study for Gross Anatomy (and Just About Everything Else)
- Anti-tutorial: how to design and execute a really bad study
- Tutorial 26: How to spread messages on the internet
- Tutorial 27: how to publish an open-access paper in a paywalled journal
- Tutorial 28: how to remember the branches of the internal iliac artery
- Tutorial 29: how to choose a title for your paper
- Tutorial 30: how to identify Morrison sauropod cervicals
- Tutorial 31: ways to start a new open-access journal
- Tutorial 32: How to ensure that no-one will ever use your PhyloPic silhouettes
- Tutorial 33: Checklist for a book signing
- Photogrammetry: index to Heinrich Mallison’s tutorials
- Tutorial 34: How to document a specimen
- Tutorial 35: Finding work experience relevant to palaeontology
- Tutorial 36: the atlas-axis complex complex in sauropods
- Tutorial 36b: the sauropod axis in detail, illustrated by Camarasaurus
- Tutorial 37: how to record your talk (audio and slides) on a Mac
- Tutorial 38: little projects as footsteps toward understanding
- Tutorial 39: how not to conclude a talk or paper
- Tutorial 40: things to do when a paper comes out — a checklist
- Tutorial 41: distinguishing nerves and arteries in dissection
- Tutorial 42: how to get a paper written
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