Jack Stack

@jackstack.bsky.social

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Trophy husband, PhD vertebrate paleontologist. Lecturer of Zoology at Bowie State University. I also write about the history of fishes: https://fishhistory.substack.com/. He/him

Louis Purnell plaque at the Smithsonian
Drawing of a long nosed fish in lateral view
Photo of a tiny halfbeak, which is a freshwater fish with an elongate lower jaw
Slide that has squirrels over the coin flipping villain from "No Country for Old Men"
Insect of some kind with long wings
Spider man meme wherein I am Tim Keaton and teens in the park smoking weed are Tom Holland and Tim Keaton's daughter
Lonnie Johnson
Books on systematics by Mayr, Wiley, and Felsenstein, who have very different but valuable ideas about how to build trees
Illustration of a Nerubian vizier by Dan Scott
Pusheen in bed
Some type of leafhopper that I saw
Reconstruction of an ancient ray-finned fish
Spinosaurus is a marine eel
Blank square I’m getting
Cat sitting behind me while I record a lecture
Poorly Drawn Lines rat needs to find money
Slide on why godzilla would collapse under his own weight sadly.
Flood Spore from Halo
Metoposaur skull looking brilliant
I forget how to spell the name of this bird
Giant stone circle that looks like a coin
Bat with big ears
Chunky raccoon
Xiphactinus
Photo of a man on a sonic car who isn’t having a fun time
Totally real image of a mosquito playing the violin next to an ear
House spider
Bug
Ichthyosaur making a goofy face
Spotted lanternfly nymph on a plant.
Star Wars alien
CBS Elementary promo
Photo of a fossilized brachiopod with encrusting animals
Really cooked meme of stromatolites realizing they are on the planet they once were the dominant form of life on.
Illustration of a fossil fish.
Fat frog
Spiders!
Brachiopod fossil covered in encrusting animals
Giant hornet
Panel figure showing fossilized fish scales.
Me with at a table with various objects of natural curiosity.
Aphids
Branchiopod fossil showing encrusting mat organism
Dril tweet
Beetle
Birgeria skull, fish line drawing
Sketch of the skull of Birgeria.
Richard Dawkins article screenshot
Leonardo DiCaprio "and then you got the grand wizard over there, right?" with Cuvier's portrait. He was possibly the most racist person ever and invented modern scientific racism in many ways.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s character saying “and then you got the Grand Wizard over there, right?”
Me with the smallest fish you’ve ever seen on a rod and reel
Me holding a fish
Cellar spider but not in a cellar
Bass
Black crappie
Identical pink pusheen plushies
Photo of a box fish by Fernando Losada Rodríguez
Drawing of the skull of Redfieldius