Amazing new taphonomy resource from the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Kenya! Great for research and students!

Anna's paper on ecological turnover at the PETM has been published! Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform @txgeosciences.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Bordeaux Summer School on Advanced #MassSpec for Cultural Heritage 16-20 June 2025 bridges #MassSpec & cultural heritage application deadline May 23rd, 2025 Proteins, Lipids & Carbohydrates Perfect for PhDs, post-docs, academics & museum professionals! bss-appliedchemistry.u-bordeaux.fr/en/

Awesome opportunity for advanced undergrads or recent grads below! 👇👇👇

Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇

Super stoked to share this exciting research tomorrow morning! Come check it out! #SAA2025

Great start to #SAA2025 with a Geoarchaeology excursion to the Kanorado locality! Now looking forward to hearing some great research!

Denver bound! Super excited to present some awesome new research at #SAA2025!

FABULOUS Instagram post by Dr. John Moretti (@stray_sabercat) on dire wolf “de-extinction”! Well put, Sir, well put. 👏🏼

Amazing work, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @tsutatsuta.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and everyone else involved!

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Me: Nothing is cuter than baby opossums. Husband: What about baby skunks? Me: Oo. Tricky.

Setting aside that it’s not actually a dire wolf, my question is: what do they plan to DO with it? They made a bigger version of a historically persecuted species with stronger bite force. What are they going to do….release a pack of ‘em? Where? Get your popcorn for some off the wall NIMBYism.

Now, *that's* what I call de-extinction!

Every year UTCT teaches NSF sponsored short courses on high-resolution X-ray CT, taught by UTCT staff (including me!). Applications for the 2025 courses are now open! See below for the biological/paleontological course info, & we also have a geological one. If you'd like to apply, send me a DM 🩻☢️🦴

Awesome new resource for introducing zooarchaeology to kids! Fantastic educational resource that I’m so excited about!

I'm always so excited and honored to support my friends and colleagues as they defend their dissertations! Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. John Moretti, and I can't wait to watch @brontonorris.bsky.social become Dr. Liam Norris tomorrow!

Always good to pause over something that sounds too good to be true. If it’s real it’ll hold up to rigorous analysis. If it’s not, we need to know — even if the answer isn’t the one we wanted!

It may be a bit "inside baseball," but I'm wildly excited about the promise of palaeoproteomics -- not quite as much info as DNA, but can give us info from millions of years ago. This new paper out today shows they were able to figure out biological sex of an A. africanus specimen (2-3.5myo). 🏺🧪

For my inaugural post, I’d like to point out that any version of Sleeping Beauty where the King burns all the spinning wheels is both economically disastrous and also an excellent argument against Abstinence Only education. This wisdom brought to you by multiple readings of the tale to my youngest.