Post AS2OP77jd1tc8LAq0m by john@sauropods.win
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 (DIR) Post #AS2MtkL2C7oOXBsDWi by john@sauropods.win
       2023-01-26T14:07:26Z
       
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       I've never really had imposter syndrome, but wow, sometimes I feel like I know nothing about animal anatomy. What keeps me from feeling like an imposter is I'm pretty sure virtually no one does. It's lost knowledge that we palaeozoology sorts are trying to bring back. #animals #ImposterSyndrome
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2NIJR3M8ZAKtP1qy by drmambobob@ecoevo.social
       2023-01-26T14:11:53Z
       
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       @john Something that a good colleague once told me - that has stuck with me - was that what you read about anatomy is written in stone and that you should trust your observations
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2NRl4HzGY2dzG7jE by john@sauropods.win
       2023-01-26T14:13:37Z
       
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       @drmambobob *isn't* written in stone, presumably?
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2NhHU5kMn7WajJVQ by drmambobob@ecoevo.social
       2023-01-26T14:16:24Z
       
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       @john LOL - yes. I noticed immediately after I posted and edited it
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2OP77jd1tc8LAq0m by john@sauropods.win
       2023-01-26T14:24:20Z
       
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       @Capheind That's not a thing, surely?
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2Oh33xSvbckdxWVc by john@sauropods.win
       2023-01-26T14:27:34Z
       
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       @drmambobob Nearly every time I delve into something deeply it doesn't work they way I think it did, or the description isn the literature is misleading in some way (usually on the side of being over-precise about messy variable things).
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2W6zhdHR39XRprMW by gekitsu@toot.cat
       2023-01-26T15:50:40Z
       
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       @john and as an extra factor of despair: from an artistic point of view, anatomy is one of those things we never really finish learning more about, isn’t it?even if we have thoroughly encompassing knowledge of an animal’s anatomy in a scientific sense, there’s no end to how that informs the animal’s posture in all sorts of situations and how to best distill it into marks on canvas.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2Wo5qCKnYb1mOQgC by john@sauropods.win
       2023-01-26T15:58:29Z
       
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       @gekitsu I don't think we have anything like thoroughly encompassing knowledge of scientific sense for anything except *maybe* humans or even more maybe dogs and cats. For a lot of sorts of animals, (if we're lucky!) someone dissected one once and wrote it down. They may have got a weird individual. They may have made mistakes. They may have left huge bits out because they weren't looking at that. I like it. There's so much left to discover, it's quite cool actually.