Don’t let the smile fool you, @mosasaurologist.bsky.social is actually screaming because I made him pose with his exhibits at Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center 🤣 He’d rather get eaten by a Megalodon.

I just wanted to show off some super detailed prints of Martinichthys snoots that I was using as tactile examples at our GSA poster on Monday. Happy #FossilFriday! Cc @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social 🧪🐟

Wish I could be there for our fossil fish feces poster! Thanks for representing @mosasaurologist.bsky.social!

Today's review...'The Fossil Keeper's Treasure' @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social illustrated by Natalia Cardozo @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social Beautiful! throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/the-...

It’s always fun stopping by the Morrison Natural History Museum to feed the mosasaur!

That moment when you see your book in the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social gift shop! #purejoy #booksky

My beautiful Texas friend, Acrocanthosaurus, looking gorgeous as ever at the Witte Museum. Glad I got to stop by briefly while I was in San Antonio last week! #fossilfriday

Never underestimate the power of fossils to inspire scientific curiosity in children. #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

Absolutely gorgeous bookpost today, Bea & I love this highly illustrated and tactile book about fossils, The Fossil Keeper's Treasure, written by @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social & illustrated by Natalia Cardozo. Thanks @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social! #KidLitUK

Thanks to @mosasaurologist.bsky.social for patiently trying to explain fish fossils to me yesterday while I was fully distracted by everything else, including this rad Pachycephalosaurus skull. #fossilfriday

Our Annual Dinner this year includes a talk by @geopetalfabric.bsky.social! In the area? Join us as she explores how we can confuse 'weirdness' for new species in long-dead animals, and how museum collections provide clues to untangle the fossil record.. mnch.uoregon.edu/learn/annual...

My first book, The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure, is out now! It’s illustrated by the amazing Nat Cardozo. Each page features embossed fossils you can touch. Every fossil tells a story, and every scientist started out as a curious kid. I can’t believe it’s finally here! #fossilfriday #booksky

It was so much fun chatting with @embirlab.bsky.social on @scifri.bsky.social about the wonderful world of tails!

wrote about the pink peeing dolphins <3 love them defector.com/think-river-...

Embrace your inner weird fish!

Just trying to blend in with the boneheads

I got to visit CU Boulder today for collections visits. I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪

The Turtle Cove assemblage from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is the theme for this year's #NationalFossilDay poster art! Check out the writeup on the NPS website! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Moose! Seen this cutie* two days in a row now. *and by “cutie” I mean giant, terrifyingly awkward ungulate

Smilodectes, a lemur-like primate from the Eocene (~55 Mya) of North America. It jumped out of that tree right into my heart 🥰 On display @denvermuseumns.bsky.social #fossilfriday

December 18, 1949, birthday of #USGS volcanologist David Alexander Johnston. He famously announced the 1980 eruption of St. Helens with his last words: "Vancouver! Vancouver! This Is It!" press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

#mosasaurmonday from the Morrison Natural History Museum - Tylosaurus proriger

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3D prints are so cool. The Western Science Center printed these of a different rhino jaw and most of a skull I found, and because they’re print I can put them back together for the first time in several million years! Doesn’t fit perfectly because of some deformation, but pretty close!

I’ve been in a bit of a funk all day, and listening to the Weird & Dead podcast from @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social and @geopetalfabric.bsky.social has managed to cheer me up tremendously. I’m not sure what that says about me.

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside.

When your Thanksgiving dinner gets revenge

I always love being called “sweetheart” and a bad scientist by strangers on the internet 🙃. For context, I’d pointed out that error propagation and uncertainty in body size reconstructions are things that exist.

Quetzalcoatlus - the largest flying creature of all time. Which was exactly how I felt when I was on an airplane while 8 months pregnant. I've dreamed of seeing this reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus in person, and I finally had the chance at #2024SVP at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

This is giving Animorphs realness and I am here for it.