Let’s take another look at that Giraffatitan cervical.

Mark Witton, pterosaur-wrangler, Cthulhu-conjurer, globe-trotting paleo playboy and all-around scientific badass, drew this (and blogged about it): {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-8899 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“8899” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/09/17/phat-air-meets-wide-gauge-meets-color/buzzed-small/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/buzzed-small.jpg” orig-size=“693,981” comments-opened=“1”

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I thought I’d done a decent job of illustrating MB.R.2180:C5 last time, but Wedel was not satisfied, demanding ventral and right-lateral views as well as the provided right lateral, anterior, posterior and dorsal.

Janensch’s (1950) paper on the vertebral column of Giraffatitan (which he called Brachiosaurus brancai , wrongly as it turns out) is in many ways a superb piece of work.

Suppose you’re working on a Wealden sauropod — for example, the disturbingly Camarasaurus -like isolated dorsal vertebra NHM R2523 — and for some reason you desperately want to publish your work in Cretaceous Research . {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-8841 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“8841” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/09/14/who-owns-journals/bmnh-r2523-orthogonal/”

[Background: read Stephen Curry’s excellent summary of the new BIS select committee report on Open Access.] Paul Jump’s coverage of open-access issues in Times Higher Education continues with today’s post discussing the fallout from the new BIS report. That report says: There’s your problem, right there.

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I just read Mick Watson’s post Why I resigned as PLOS ONE academic editor on his blog [opiniomics](http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/ “bioinformatics, genomes, biology etc.

You know how every time you point out a problem to legacy publishers — like when they’re caught misrepresenting their open-access offerings they explain that it’s very complicated and will take months to fix? Here’s how that should work: To summarise: I found a bug in the PeerJ system;

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