Behind the scenes at PhyloPic
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It's all about communication–so, at this point I'm obligated to say that "A picture is worth a thousand words." One of my favorite open-friendly image sources is PhyloPic, a phenomenal site with over 2,200 silhouettes of organisms past and present. These silhouettes can be quite handy to illustrate family trees (for instance, we used them in our paper on the horned dinosaur Aquilops), or blog posts, or public presentations. Suffice to say, it's a great resource. [full disclosure: I have contributed some images to the site]