I can't get the damn picture to flip! Oh well, highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs.

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Intro: Just working out this Mastodon thing. As a geologist by training I’m kind of curious about the name and why you would call a social network after a extinct megafauna? A bit about me - I mostly work on oceans and their link to climate through the carbon cycle. I study plankton and biogeochem of the modern ocean, and sediments and isotopes of dead plankton to study the past. I go to sea on large research vessels. I teach oceanography and climate science at an Aus uni. I’m also a cyclist and love to swim in the ocean and hike in the bush and mountains. #oceans #climate #plankton #carbon #ships #isotopes #paleoceanography #Paleoclimates #cycling #hiking