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Seated for Neil Shubin’s Gould Award plenary, and excited to find out once and for all whether fish are real

Shubin says it’s both the best of times and the worst of times for science, citing unprecedented methodological advances, and both the current federal administration and the broader information environment in which we work

And for a response to those challenges, Shubin looks back to starting out in the field, as a TA for Stephen Jay Gould

Shubin recounts his decision to focus on the tetrapod transition to land, and the plan of paleontology to look for fossils that might capture that transition