Successfully passed my dissertation defense here at ISU! These past five years have been amazing. Fell in love with research, started my family with @thezoiejenkins.bsky.social , and couldn’t have asked for a better advisor in @gondwannabe.bsky.social #Dissertation #PhD

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

A pretty solid couple of days for publishing some of my dissertation work! 🦎Our description of Milleropsis pricei, a late Permian reptile from South Africa, is out! 🚨Rethink what you know about 'parareptiles'🚨 Link here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

Coming in a little late to this #FossilFriday but here is the holotype of Youngina capensis, AMNH FARB 5561. This is a close relative of modern reptiles that lived in the late Permian of South Africa around 252 million years ago Expect some fun revisions to Neodiapsida in the near future…. 👀