Wait! I was wrong. One more. Congrats on wrapping up your Master's @athenavohs.bsky.social, and have a blast pursuing your PhD at CU Boulder!

I graduated!!! I’m now the master of mammals 🐑🦒🦬

As the academic year winds down, continued excellence from the U-M Paleo Club graphics department (revealed to be @athenavohs.bsky.social).

Paleo Club graphics team is batting 1.000.

Amazing.

The first Serbian dinosaur fossils have been discovered! Delighted to have been invited by Serbian colleagues to contribute to this paper (available in early view) describing Late Cretaceous sauropod and theropod fossils www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New specimen of Archaeopteryx described (the one housed at the Field Museum in Chicago), providing new info on the skull and soft tissue: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)

It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Colorado Plateau field trip day 4!

Colorado Plateau field trip day 3!

Colorado Plateau field trip day 2!

Colorado Plateau field trip day 1!

Happy graduate student appreciation week from (just some) of my favorite fellow grads!!

We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning! Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴

No fewer than 165 of my books and papers have been stolen by Meta, to train AI that will make them billions. I've been paid $0.00. If you want to read my real words, avoid the AI-generated crap and check out my upcoming book on bird evolution next year. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Happy international women in STEM day!

Two summers ago, I went to Craters of the Moon as part of my geology field camp. I stumbled across this photo and forgot how much I loved the birds!

Feeling this so hard this semester! Ready for a good one though, I may or may not have a descriptive paper coming out this summer 🫢

Merry Christmas Eve! 🦖🎅

If you’ll be at SICB in January, come see my talk titled “Hidden trophic diversity in early ray-finned fishes: evidence from the Carboniferous Sphaerolepis” on Sunday, Jan 4th, in the Morphology and Mechanics session. Come chat to talk fish, paleontology, or science in general!

Semester 1 officially comes to a close!