We need a call to action to save museums and get attendance back up… my heart aches for my home and institution 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🔬🔭🧬🌎🌱 youtu.be/wUxFy3iTE9E?...

Last week I visited the rex, the myth, the legend… SUE! I’ve seen @suethetrex.bsky.social many times over the years at The Field Museum, but this was at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social in her new stance! I was so inspired & felt compelled to bow to the tyrant Iizard king 💜🦖🦴 Happy Unearth Day!

Ever dreamed of working at a dinosaur museum? We have part time positions open for public programs here at ANSP! Talk with guests about our research, history, and collection of over 20 million items! Click the link below to learn more. Based in Philadelphia, PA. careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I absolutely hate this timeline. Can we have a mulligan?!

Paper here, thread following onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Where are my DK Dinosaur Hunters at?! This game immersed me into a world as a kid (7 yr), and now is my career (36 yr)! I took the audio from the game and meshed it to our Dino Hall at ANSP. I need this game revamped for the new generation. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil

Catching a glimpse of ancient Mars | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hybrid Meeting with author Christa Sadler, Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 PM. Sadler will talk about her brand-new book: "Dinosaur Frontier: Utah at the Dawn of the Cretaceous". Visit the UFOP website at rb.gy/eh1jft for more info or to sign up for the online meeting. #FossilFriday

With all the dire wolf stories out there, how about we take a moment to enjoy some quiet time alone in Dinosaur Hall with the ghosts of the Mesozoic Era. Here we have a Chasmosaurus and Corythosaurus at ANSP. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🦖🌎 #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #paleontology #geoscience #sciencemuseum

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New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

I made a meme (?) during these dire times. 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬 #paleosky #paleontology #direwolf #sciencenews

Working on a video about the Dire Wolf frenzy that is taking over social media… especially the misinformation. They’re still extinct. My museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, does have the Joseph Leidy type specimen (not 📷) of Aenocyon dirus & I have a tattoo of one! Stay tuned for its release 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬

Saturday was a good day for rockhounding! The highlight was all the pyromorphite, plus this dragon head looking quartz. #geology #minerals 🧪⛏️🪨👩🏻‍🔬🌎

Great news. Nay, the best news. Flickr user and all-around hero grafxmangrafxman has uploaded photos of every single fossil and text graphic from the old NMNH fossil halls. Including many that I had failed to document. I'm ecstatic! Thanks Enzo B for the heads up. www.flickr.com/photos/80431...

Some good rockhounding yesterday. I’ll be back to this location Saturday to film some long-form videos for my YT channel as I start my journey into online science communication (on top of my museum scientific job)! 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬 #minerals #geology #earthscience #rocks #geoscience

If you’re a geologist, palaeontologist, rockhounder… you know this is a core practice. I mean how else am I supposed to get my daily iron intake? Eating spinach?! No way! 🧪 🌎 🪨 👩🏻‍🔬 #rockhounding #geology #paleosky #paleontology #sciencememe #geosky #ironstone #sedimentary #fieldwork #geoscience #rocks

My Academy of Natural Sciences colleague, Mariangeles, speaking at Stand Up For Science rally in Philly. So proud of my team! 🧪🧬🔬👩🏻‍🔬📷🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #standupfightback #marchforscience #philadelphia #scientists #research #naturalhistorymuseum #sciencemuseum #researchmuseum

Stand Up For Science. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🏛️🧬🔬📷 #sciencenotsilence #standupfightback

Stand Up For Science 2025 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

#standupforscience2025 is tomorrow (Philly for me) and I’m up trying to think of good memes to put on posters to show my rage through ✨ art, especially with Tiktaalik being part of ANSP 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪

Yikes! Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals. By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded. 🧪 #PeerReview

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Imposter Syndrome & The Perfectionist Trap 🎭 More in Alt Text. #ImposterSyndrome #Perfectionism #PhDLife #AcademicWriting #Research #Productivity #WorkSmart #MindsetMatters #GradSchool #ScienceCommunication 🧪

Following their footsteps: Report of vertebrate fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, #Oregon, #USA 🐾 Conner J. Bennett, Nicholas A. Famoso, and Daniel I. Hembree @palaeo-electronica.bsky.social palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

Alberta Paleo Soc. beat out @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social in posting my talk on Morrison Dinosaur nesting sites and behavior. @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @museumoftherockies.bsky.social @ljkrum.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @drjmchugh.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSQ...

Last week, Buddy and I took our Friends Select 2nd graders on a tour of Vert Paleo with Ned to see what it’s like in the museum collections, how we categorise and store fossils, and even get to look at some specimens up close! 🧪 🌿 ⚒️ 🍎 🧬 🌎 👩🏻‍🔬 🪨

HELP A SCIENTIST OUT. I’ve started to see these “trona frogs” popping up on social media since the Tucson Show. Some selling for 2K. I asked a page (that was selling them) if there were any research papers; they replied not yet, but said scans were done to show they’re real? Cont. 🧪⛏️⚒️🐸🧬👩🏻‍🔬🧬🧫🔬

Last week, a video of a rare black seadevil anglerfish spotted near the ocean surface made headlines because anglerfish typically live in very deep waters. Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.

Anyone else show up to work this morning and find a scene like this? This is our Fire Camera on Star Peak in Northern Nevada. Don't worry, we'll get the snow cleared off before Spring! #FieldWorkFriday.

If you see this, post a skeleton: One of our Paleopalooza events at ANSP where I did tours of Dino Hall all about Jurassic Park, Fossil Prep, and how dinosaurs are mounted for exhibits like ours. Of course I had to include Tyrannosaurus rex at the end of the presentation! 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 🍎 🌎 🦖 ⛏️

Been a busy few days but here are some nice local minerals I will be displaying soon: iron stained limonite quartz and some sort of goethite/hematite underneath that I haven’t really inspected yet. Anyone else wanna take a guess? Gotta love rock hounding/collecting. 🧪🪨⛏️ #geosky #geology #geoscience

Right around the corner from where I live. The animals and I voluntarily evacuated because I’m not waiting for them to do their tests: I know what chemicals are in that factory.

Friday I attended the Super Bowl Eagles parade here in Philly. Go Birds! Go Dinosaurs! My best shot 📸🏈🟢 If there is to be a revolution, I think Philadelphia is the perfect origin. If we can come out like this for football, we can do it to fight against fascism and oligarchies ruining our country.

Rubies are red, sapphires are blue, because Al3+ substitutes for Ti4+ and Fe2+ #GeoValentine

Just a little guy^^ #art #anomalocaris #feral #feralart #paleoart #paleontology

I need another image today. Here's a close-up photo of a female anhinga's eye during breeding season: red pupil with an orange ring inside, light blue/turquoise eye ring, green lore speckled with more turquoise, yellow beak. #birds

I’m currently trying to read this paper BUT I have a modern bird stopping me… video to come soon 😂

One of the world’s most fearsome crustaceans has evolved to deliver deadly punches to its prey without damaging its own body — and now, scientists have shown how. https://go.nature.com/3Epxsgh

Giant ground sloths? Armadillos? Who - or what - cut these ancient sandstone tunnels in Brazil? Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Oh hey, I heard it’s #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience and I am horrible at making posts consistently on social media cause I’m too busy making funny faces and staring at rocks all day! 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ 🍎 🧬 🌎 #paleosky #geoscience #womeninstem #womeninscience #fossilprep #museumeducation #minerals

Did you know octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are editing their RNA to modify the functionality of their proteins? No other animal does it quite like they do. Read about it in this blog post I wrote and illustrated 🥰🫶🦑🐙🧪 octonation.com/octopus-can-...

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look:

This is oil and gas destroying what’s left of an iconic species. We can’t let this go on.

Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is looking for help with funding and crews to excavate an ~1/2 acre of bone beds in the Early #Jurassic (~200 million). We need big excavation equipment. Check out fossils and how you can help in the images attached.

GO BIRDS! GO DINOSAURS!

The California Geological Survey is now on BlueSky! @cageosurvey.bsky.social 🧪⚒️