The third paper for those special issue on John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is out! @jdorcutt.bsky.social, two of his students, and I describe bear-dog material as well as add two new dog ancestors in the John Day Formation. doi.org/10.1017/jpa....

The second paper from the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument special issue is out! Brian Tanis, Larisa DeSantis, and Rebecca Terry Novak investigate the relationship between niche breadth and species duration in dog relatives in the John Day Formation. doi.org/10.1017/jpa....

NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs eos.org/research-and...

My paper on Mesocyon is finally out! This will be part of a special issue on John Day Fossils Beds National Monument. Art by Kaori Chambers www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The first paper of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument 50th anniversary special issue of the Journal of Paleontology is out online early! @virtpaleo.bsky.social, Jennifer Cavin, and Xiaoming Wang describe a nearly complete skeleton of the dog ancestor Mesocyon coryphaus.

Got my yard signs out for Save Our Library Grant County! Vote Yes on Measure 12-87!

omsi.edu/events/scien... I'm going to be giving a talk for @omsiedu.bsky.social about paleontology at JODA after the last 50 years!

Happy International Women's Day 💐 Did you know, for every 7 men in palaeontology, there are ~3 women. Women make up 25-35% of global vertebrate palaeontological publishing output. And are most likely to study mammals, while men, reptiles.

Final version of a new paper is finally out! This paper looks at the relationship between body size and reproductive strategies in carnivorous mammals. doi.org/10.4404/hyst...

The Paleontological Society statement on recent events.

Video version of my podcast interview! youtu.be/eQ_IxJYsBts?...

Wow... apparently we talked for almost 2 hrs on this podcast.. open.spotify.com/episode/0EsA...

Interpretation internship at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument through the Northwest Youth Corps nwyouthcorps.workbrightats.com/jobs/1278887

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

BREAKING: The longest government shutdown in history is officially over.

Interesting paper peerj.com/articles/201...

Small, enigmatic alligatoroid from the Middle Eocene Clarno Formation, John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...

This year’s National Fossil Day focus is on the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, specifically, the 29-million-year-old Oligocene assemblage of the Turtle Cove Member of the John Day Formation.

Happy establishment day for John Day Fossil Beds National Monument! On this day in 1975, JODA was taken over by the National Park Service. Its mission, to preserve the region's geological and paleontological resources and to provide for the scientific and public understanding of these resources.

The Clarno Unit of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and Hancock Field Station are under level 3 evacuation orders :( #BlackRockFire

#BlackRockFire near the Clarno Unit, Hancock Field Station, and Pine Creek Conservstion Area.

So... today I added a new job duty... bat guano sample collector... I've always wanted to work with bats, but I didn't think I would be collecting their poo...

A #FathersDay weekend #FossilFriday: Patriofelis ferox, the "ferocious father of cats". (Despite the name, not a cat but an oxyaenid: no more closely related to cats than to walruses or dogs or bears). Mount from the @amnh.org

After over a decade of work, the new age model for the John Day Formation is published! Great work by Mike Mohr and the rest of our team! doi.org/10.1130/GES0...

Changes coming for federal hiring... federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Important paper about job prospects in Paleontology right now. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very last news segment on the fossil footprints! youtu.be/Jdgma1hu4x0?...

News release on our cool fossil track paper! www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/an...

I found out last week that I won a regional director's award for natural resource management in a small park! With everything going on, it was welcome news. I'll be competing for a Director's award next. Thanks to my former superintendent for nominating me before he retired.

Barn Owl in the Barn at work today!

My pup and I had a great hike today!

It was great to have @virtpaleo.bsky.social visiting the park all this week working on a nearly compleate candidate skeleton! Anne was an intern at the park in 2018 and 2019, and it's great to have her back now that's she's a PostDoc at the University of Michigan! #FossilFriday

Multiple scientific societies I am a part of or have worked with have signed on to this. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (JODA) preserves a fantastic record of Oregon's #Eocene and #Oligocene environments. A new study examines several JODA trackways to further understand fauna and their behaviors in these changing ecosystems.

I love it when a fossil track plan comes together! New paper on the fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument out today. Paper was led by Conner Bennett. Thanks to our coauthor Dan Hembree for his help. doi.org/10.26879/1413 #FossilFriday

It's been a lot lately for sure...

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

“all components and employees… not typically designated as essential during a lapse in appropriations” This includes many natural resources folks in NPS... I don't know how this is going to go... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Info graphic from Reddit on the current state of the federal workforce.

The Turtle Cove assemblage from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is the theme for this year's #NationalFossilDay poster art! Check out the writeup on the NPS website! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

*Job Alert* We are #NowHiring two museum technician positions to help prepare, catalog, and store fossils as well as help move some of our historic and biology collections. Announcement will close on December 19 or once we get 50 applications. See link: www.usajobs.gov/job/823146800

My setup for our new database training today... I'm using Badlands National Park as my park for the training database, and it feels like old time 🤓

Had a great time giving my talk on geology and paleontology of the John Day Basin for the High Desert Museum Science Pub! Saw some old friends too :)

News article on John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and the new fossil grasshopper nest exhibit! www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/10/oreg...