Happy "why did I eat so many Reese's peanut butter eggs" Day to those who celebrate.

Having a PhD doesn’t mean you’re always right, but it does mean that you unlock new and more powerful ways to be wrong.

No way to find my peeps in this crowd, so I'm standing next to an elderly couple with walkers, a Somali woman, a guy in camo with a beard down to his belly, a Danish immigrant, and what seems to be the alto section of a Lutheran choir. WE ARE MINNESOTA! #NoKings

I know I'm not the first person to say this, but if you want books about wizards and dragons and magic, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea novels are *right there* and they have about a million times more heart and beauty in them than anything JKR could ever write.

Thank you all at #aaba2026 who stepped up to donate! It's not too late to pitch in to help build a community museum at Fort Ternan. Be a PaleoHero! #AABA2026

Friends and Colleagues! I am SO excited to catch up with you all this week at #AABA2026! Here is a quick 🧵summarizing what our 🧪🧬👩🏽‍💻👨🏿‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍💻lab will be presenting at the meetings (1/n) @umncla.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social www.nievescolonlab.org

Hey #AABA2026, do you think paleoanthropology needs to do more to support local education and outreach in the places we work? Help the NMK build an Interpretation Centre at Fort Ternan Prehistory Site to inspire the next generation of Kenyan paleoanthropologists! Support the Fort!

Also on Mar 20 in poster Session 12 PhD student Emmanuel Kipruto Ngetich co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social will present his innovative research reconstructing the genetic impacts of the Green Sahara 🌳🏝️period on African population genetic diversity 🌍🧬 (5/n) #AABA2026

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and have always done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." - J.R.R. Tolkien #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

Looking forward to reading it!

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Short fun interview with McNultyLab member, and @bellmuseum.bsky.social Fellowship recipient, Risa Lama-Luther! www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/grad-awards/...

Very excited to share this OA paper that introduces nonlinear Bayesian models for calculating individual growth trajectories and provides a web-based tool for clinicians to apply it in real time! Honored and humbled to work with this amazing team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to the incomparable @mitopr.bsky.social on her award of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship.

Custom-made display tables finally arrived at the Rusinga Island Presitory museum!

This even popped up in my mainstream news feed! Great paper.

First home game for @mnufc.com and just before the game this arose from the stands!

Also, to the grant reviewer who didn't believe I could build a small museum for the amount listed in the budget: STAY IN YOUR LANE. I deeply appreciate the work and wisdom of reviewers, but unless you've built the amount of community infrastructure on Rusinga that I have, stick to what you know.

We hired a local artist to paint a mural of what the Early Miocene on Rusinga Island may have looked like. Here he is at work! This will be just inside of the entrance at the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization's Interpretive Centre!

Having a "mango meeting" with some of my favorite people, including @leakeyfoundation.org grantees John Kingston, Laura MacLatchy, @susycote.bsky.social('s hand), and Fredrick Manthi, plus SMU researcher Alisa Winkler. Fun to catch up with everyone and strategize about Kenyan student training.

Driving on all fours: when the engine will cut out if you dont keep your foot on the accelerator, but traffic has jammed, so you have to depress the clutch with your other foot and use the hand-brake to stop. Still have 1 limb left for the steering wheel!

Is rage-sobbing a thing? Is there a better word for it?

To all you nice people: when someone recalls a gesture, action, or words of yours that had a huge impact but you dont recall the moment: don't feel bad! It doesn't mean you're self absorbed. It means kindness and generosity are a habit not an exception. You make the world better just by being you!

My son observed today that radio interpretations of Christmas songs vary so much more than other songs [with most versions Big Yikes, in his opinion]. Also #paleoanthropology: so many researchers interpreting limited evidence pushes some to brilliance, others to the limits of palatability.

The best defense is a good offense!

Check out this new OA article on diet and molar root cervix morphology by my postdoc Dr. Zana Sims! "This region provides a more nuanced understanding of dental adaptation along the folivore–frugivore continuum." Congrats Zana! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My PhD student Jaime Zolik and I were interviewed on the @anthrobiology.bsky.social podcast about our aDNA 🧬💀work with community partners in Peru. Have a listen to hear what Jaime & our lab have been up to! 🤓 Thx Gaby for inviting us on! @umnanth.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/27ys...

So pleased to introduce the newly minted Dr. Abbey Hall! Abbey's research on Early Miocene mammal communities is a tremendous body of work that will be yielding insights far beyond her dissertation. Congratulations! 🎊 👏🏼 💐

For #fossilfriday I'm happy to announce this short OA piece about a small but fossil site formerly called "Meswa Bridge." This came about through collaboration with local officials and wonderful interactions with the Tonde community. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

View from bed.

Had a great time working on nasal septum deviation with new collaborators from BU's Goldman School of Dental Medicine, @richsherw.bsky.social and others. academic.oup.com/ejo/article-...

EEB Rock Block at Harvard today!

Cost in gas: $25.13 Round trip drive: 3 hours Honors ceremony: 25 minutes Having a quiet meal with your college-age daughter: priceless.

You: where did you develop such wonky taste in music? Me: 🤷‍♂️ no idea how that came about. Also me: <sorting through cassette tapes to find...

"I do not think it means what you think it means." #punctuation

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the point of placing an online coffee order is so that it will be ready at the scheduled pick up time, not so that I can place my order when I arrive. This very modest goal should be achievable, at least when establishments are not busy.

When your behavior is determined by others--directly or in response--you lose degrees of freedom, making it much harder for anything you do to be significant.

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How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland

"Below are detailed responses to some of the reviewers' comments. For answers to their other questions and comments, we respectfully ask them to actually read the manuscript." 🤣🤣🤣

Congratulations to the new Baldwin Fellows, including 2 of my students, Penina Kadalida (c/a with Martha Tappen) and Emmanuel Ngetich (c/a with @mitopr.bsky.social)! Thanks to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting all of these students and their staunch support for Paleoanthropology!

Very excited to arrive in Cape Town for a workshop on building Socially Responsive practices in Paleoanthropology! Organized by @laurenschroeder.bsky.social and Becky Ackermann, and funded by @wennergrenorg.bsky.social.

Have to admit I enjoyed this bit of spam. Apparently, my university's domain expiring and it's on me to fix it!

Shout-out to the "Back to the 50s" attendant at the MN State fairgrounds who called out my poor cycling decision in an easy, professional (Minnesotan!) way. I misread the situation and chose poorly. Glad there are good staff to keep people safe and keep me honest!

I understand the value in having the same person cut your hair in the same way every time. But the scientist in me enjoys seeing how different people interpret the same instructions!

Another great summary of our recently published work on the climate, ecology, and environment of the early Miocene in western Kenya @munyaka.bsky.social @mcnultylab.bsky.social urls.grow.me/7Gl5Oyr91N

A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!