I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was young. Then I learned that I would need to spend a lot of time outside in the sun instead of inside in the dark so I decided to be a software dev instead.
Same, except I am a legal tech and professional artist.
I love that I can make my money in a dark, air-conditioned room and just read about all the cool shit we're learning about dinosaurs.
Same, kinda. I had literally decided by the advanced age of 5 that I would be a paleontologist. Then at some point I lost interest. I'm not sure if it was a lack of support or something else. Now I wish I was a paleontologist again. Instead I pretend to be a dinosaur on the internet.
I really wanted to be an archaeologist. I still love archaeology and take a keen amateur interest in it.
But my knees would never have survived it.
Are there paleontology jobs which are primarily indoors? I'm thinking of tasks like removing the matrix from fossils which have already been dug up, but need to be prepared for preservation.
I can only wonder how supportive her parents were. Seems like that's a huge determining factor.
Yes some parents would say, "Paleontologist?! Do you want to live on food stamps the rest of your life??"
Or, even worse: "dinosaurs aren't real, the Bible would have mentioned them"
Lower than average and above parenting doesn't matter nearly as much as people think it does. We are learning year after year that nature is much stronger than nurture.
https://melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/does-parenting-really-not-matter
I'm even linking a version where the person bashes the concept but constantly cites things that go against their argument lol.
I will link my usual nature vs nurture citation too if needed. My profile should have it for the lazy though.
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tl;dr: Separated identical twin studies have shown over and over that so much of who you are, the small quirks, the larger life goals, all of it is something that you will be naturally inclined to. Being raised healthily only serves to dampen or enhance much of what's already there.
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Mass murder, a careless disregard for human life and liberty, inflicting pain both emotional and physical onto others. Most of these are essentially switches some people simply aren't born with. People can learn or mask all they want, it doesn't mean you're not playing with a shit hand.
All people are not created equal. Many people have a significant harder time going through life because they rolled snake eyes on the genetic lottery. Our robust mountain of scientific evidence and understanding of the human brain points to nearly all of it being rooted in Scumbag Brain / Body.
Sauce:
General Heritability of both IQ, Beauty, mental disorders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_genetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_mental_disorders#Biological_factors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness
Aggression specifically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_of_aggression
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539471/
Brain structure determining who you are studies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence#General
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Causes
Nurture doesn't matter as much as nature:
Helicopter or hands-off parenting? The choice won't impact a kid as much as you think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture#Early_to_mid-20th_century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_complex_trait_analysis#Robust_heritability
My mom said if you hold it that way for too long it’ll stay that way.
You mean it'll fossilize?
I love it when people recreate the same pose for these time jump pics hahaha
The Children's Museum in Indianapolis has paleontology and archaeology labs with real scientists doing research, restoration work, etc., which you can watch them doing, and also making themselves available for questions from anyone, children or adults.
They didn't have that when I went there as a kid, but they do now. I think it's so incredible.
That's a great resource, but good god I can't imagine a worse environment for me to work in than one where I'm constantly being questioned by children.
Sorry, I don't think I explained it very well. I don't mean that every archaeologist working there is available for questions at the same time. I meant that there are archaeologists (and paleontologists) available to answer questions any time while others are doing scientific work.
Ah, that makes more sense!
Yeah, when I was there, there was a window to watch what they were doing and one of them at an open part at the end to answer questions. But I'm guessing that the ones working wouldn't mind answering the occasional question from a kid pointing and asking what's up with what they're doing. I doubt they would be working there if they weren't interested in science education. And I'm really glad there are enough archaeologists and paleontologists interested in science education to do things like that while still being able to do work in their field.
I found a couple of pictures of their paleo lab to show what I mean:
Why?
amazing
you can't fool us OP, she just changed her clothes!
Going after that big dinosaur cash $$$
Edit : Yeah I was high now I can see some similarities besides the glasses .
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