Category Archives: Progress Reports

Some (finalish) results!

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Andy Farke

Matt and I have been meeting weekly for the past three weeks to have ODP work days–just to crank through analyses, etc. Mostly, it’s a matter of sitting down and forcing each other to do stuff. Matt’s posting soon, but … Continue reading →

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Presentation Draft – Early Results

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Andy Farke

On Saturday, I’ll be giving a short presentation about (very) preliminary results from the ODP, for the 1st Annual Southwest Regional Joint DVM&DCB (Division of Vertebrate Morphology and Division of Comparative Biology) meeting of SICB (Society of Integrative and Comparative … Continue reading →

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Is there a finish line? (and how to get there)

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Andy Farke

Yes. . .I hope there is a finish line. As with many things started with the best of intentions, the ODP (and its heads – particularly me) has gotten waylaid. That said, it would be a shame to let the … Continue reading →

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The last of what we need

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Matt Wedel

Well, this is awkward. Once again we’ve let things lie fallow for far, far too long. We all (= Andy, Mike, and I) feel rotten about it, but more importantly, we now have a finite list of stuff that we … Continue reading →

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A First Pass at Figures

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Andy Farke

Even though our paper is intended for a technical audience, it is still important to ensure that a broad range of readers can access and understand the information contained within the text. For instance, not even a competent dinosaur paleontologist … Continue reading →

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Some Things to Do, and a Progress Update

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Andy Farke

We’ve had some good discussion and suggestions for ways to tweak the phylogeny, so keep them coming! At the bottom of this post, I have a new and improved version of the phylogeny. In the meanwhile, we’re still trying to … Continue reading →

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An updated (updated) phylogeny

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Andy Farke

As mentioned in the previous post, a few papers with new or updated phylogenies for various ornithischians have appeared in the last year. Thus, I spent a few hours going through them and updating the tree topology as well as … Continue reading →

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Outlining the Paper

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Andy Farke

After all of this work and data accumulation, it’s probably just about time to do the darned analyses and write the darned paper. We’ve had quite a bit of discussion over the last year or so on what this might … Continue reading →

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Return of the ODP!

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Andy Farke

It’s bAAAAaaaack! The hiatus has been a long one (far longer than expected), but now it’s time to get the show on the road again. Life has been busy for everyone, but it’s time to make some time for the … Continue reading →

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Cladogram(s), Part III

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Andy Farke

I think we’re now converging on a cladogram that reasonably captures the current state-of-the-art. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. The topology has incorporated most of the suggestions, and I think the nomenclature is finally up-to-date. As … Continue reading →

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