A gentle rebuke, well taken
Matt and I had a great time at DinoCon 2026 this weekend just gone. One of the highlights for me was running into Tim Versteeg and Joschua Knüppe, who run the PaleoStream channel. They had a stall in the vendor hall, stocked with some fantastic palaeoart.
The reason I mention this is that Tim was wearing this T-shirt (co-designed by Tim and Joschua):
“I was born after Miker Taylor first presented on the Archbishop … And all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. That first presentation was Taylor (2005) at the London SVPCA.
Well. I mean to say. It’s nice that people care about my work, but to be called out about it in T-shirt form — something that must have required a fair bit of planning and organization — is an occasion for sober reflection.
In my defence, work has started on the Archibishop — you can see the in-progress manuscript on GitHub — but I have to admit that the “work has started” post is itself now more than eight years old, and the last time I touched that manuscript was eleven months ago. (But even that was a trivial change: the last real work was years before.)
As you can see, I was quite discombobulated by this challenge.
So. I will do this. I will not start any more side-projects(*), and just as soon as I’ve got the current crop of nearly-done papers submitted, I will return to the Archbishop description and power on through. And when I do submit it, the acknowledgements will mention The T-Shirt Of Motivation.
Because in all seriousness, I love that there are people so invested in my still-not-described titanosauriform that they’re prepared to put this much effort into their whining.
References
- Taylor, Michael P. 2005. Sweet seventy-five and never been kissed: the Natural History Museum’s Tendaguru brachiosaur. p. 25 in Paul M. Barrett (ed.), Abstracts volume for 53rd Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, The Natural History Museum, London, 7th-9th September 2005. 41 pp.
(*) Narrator: “He will start more side-projects.”
Source: https://svpow.com/2026/07/27/a-gentle-rebuke-well-taken/
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