🌿Brand new research out in Science today about angiosperm reproductive strategies and how they preceded the K-Pg mass extinction, led by UCMP PhD student, Jaemin Lee, and curator, Cindy Looy!🌿 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"...there are actually so many positive reasons to have museums that it’s difficult to choose just one." - Dr. Alton Dooley SUPERB post about the important of #museum collections. life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/why-museums/

NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...

🦖Check out this new National Park Service (NPS) newsletter article written by UCMP undergrad, Ronaldo Monroy, about his experience creating a educational paleontological resource in both English and Spanish. 🦖 www.nps.gov/articles/000...

New resource available! Check out, "Digging the West: A Journey Through Time in the National Parks", an online, interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that walks readers through geologic time in our National Parks. This was made possible via a Paleo in the Parks Fellowship and is available in English & Spanish

@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st! paleo.memberclicks.net/the-paleonto...

Enthralled with #DrLisaDWhite sharing her history and science at #SFSU @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar. @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Director of Education & Outreach #SF_ROCKS #geologist. Who knew the @tarpits.org #direwolves had been stored at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #SatherTower??

Thank you so much for your donations to the UCMP! These gifts directly fund our science education programming and support our students, the future stewards of science. We – and they – are deeply grateful for your donation. Thank you! Still like to help? Visit: give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000

🦖🦖🦖Support our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! They often volunteer for our outreach events, bringing their enthusiasm for science! There's still time to give! #CalBigGive runs until 9pm tonight! Donate now! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000

We’ve been digging deep to innovate in the science education space, with our award-winning web resources (read more here: ucmp.berkeley.edu/2026/03/ucmp...) to our newly refreshed to our escape-style game VENOMventure! Donate today! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000

Good evening from the UCMP! Our 24-hour fundraising drive starts now! 

Your gift directly supports our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! 
#CalBigGive starts now! Donate at give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000!   #paleontology #PointReyes

Support our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! Your gifts to the Museum of Paleontology Fund directly supports their growth as scientists! #CalBigGive starts at 9pm tonight! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000

Now scanning my class notes from Saturday's paleontology lecture series at @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social. The last one was about the Cambrian explosion, which reminded me of these amazing paper models by Judith White Marcellini I saw at the Lawrence Hall of Science.

🦖Can you lend us a hand (or longer arms?) Suppor the UCMP during Cal Big Give! Help T.rex grow our Eduction and Outreach Fund! Cal Big Give starts Wednesday, March 11 at 9pm! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2026/03/ucmp... give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000 #CalBigGive #tyrannosaurus #STEMed

During COVID, the early birds only had the worms! Did pandemic restrictions cause beak shape to evolve in a population of birds on a college campus? Read about it in Evo in the News! #STEMed #evolution #birding evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/did...

UCMP Short Course on March 7, 2026! We'll explore "Life's Six Great Ways of Being." UC Berkeley scientists will discuss how new methods in molecular genetics give us a new perspective on traditional classification systems. Register for this free lecture series at: ucmp.berkeley.edu/short-course...

Congratulations to UCMP Curator Dr. Juan Liu, who has been awarded the 2026 W.M. Cobb Early Career Investigator Award in Morphological Sciences from the American Association for Anatomy! 🐟🐠Well done, Juan!🐠🐠

🪨📜✂️ These lizards play an evolutionary game of rock-paper-scissors, vying to leave behind more offspring in the next generation. New research reveals the genetic rules they play by. Read more in the latest Evo in the News. #stemEd #evolution #rockpaperscissors tinyurl.com/lizardrockpa...

🌱UCMP welcomes Alexander Lowe as the new Sr. Museum Scientist of Paleobotany!🌱Alex received his PhD from the Univ of Washington and was a postdoc at the Smithsonian prior to arriving at UCMP. Alex's research focuses on reconstructing Cenozoic terrestrial vegetation and climate in the western US.

Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand. job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...

Happy Holidays from Santa Claws! 🎄🎄🎉🦖 #fossilfriday #trex #santaclaws

Thought to be invasive, these island iguanas are actually locals and have likely lived on their island for hundreds of thousands of years. This Evo in the News explains how researchers used evolution to figure it out. #geneticdrift #STEMed #evolution evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/is-...

We’d also like to highlight research conducted with fossils from this locality by international scholars who are utilizing new technology like 3D scanning which allows us to work with fossils in new ways and have a digital record that increases accessibility to these fossils.

See the diversity of flora and fauna in the UCMP collections from the John Day Basin for #nationalfossilday Unidentified leaf in Clarno Fm, Coleoptera (beetle) fossil, lower jaw bone of alligator.

Happy National Fossil Day featuring fossils from the John Day Basin! UCMP holds more than 7,000 plant and vertebrate specimens collected there, including some of the first fossils cataloged at the UCMP! Fossil no. 13 in our vertebrate collection is a cervical vertebrae of an oreodont (1/3)

The @paleosoc.bsky.social Collections Committee is gathering responses from anyone who works in a paleontological/geological collection in the US about the current state of funding. It can be submitted in as little as 5 minutes (but the more detail the better)! Link here: forms.gle/6C5E5GS4MZ58....

New species alert!

Join @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Undergraduate PaleoClub @paleoberkeley seminar series on Friday 10/3 with a talk by UCMP Assistant Director Lisa White on education and outreach. UCMP Director Charles Marshall will speak on 10/10. Interested students can join on Fridays, 5:30-6:30 pm, in VLSB 3059!

What did T. rex taste like? Find out in our updated interactive module that teaches middle and high school students about phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships. We’ve cooked up a modernized version of this teacher-favorite classroom activity! 🔗 ucmp.berkeley.edu/trex-module/ #STEMed

Could hummingbird evolution be happening in your backyard? We’ve got a real humdinger of a story in our latest Evo in the News! Read more here: evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/hum... #STEMed #evolution #humminbirds

Also in the news, checkout this interview with Lisa White, our Director of Education and Outreach on Tavis Smiley KBLA where they chat about dinosaurs, science education and outreach (students in the field), and diversity in STEM. 🦖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiys...

Our facultyJack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social was featured in @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news again discussing our evolving idea of dinosaurs 🦖https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/26/a-t-rex-with-feathers-scientists-say-dinosaurs-were-likely-different-from-what-most-of-us-picture/

Antibiotic resistance lingers long after the meds are finished. Learn more in the latest Evo in the News! evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/ant...

It's the last day of classes! Congratulations to all those graduating and good luck on your exams. Go Bears! 🐻🐻🐻🦖🐻🐻🐻

Apply for Senior Museum Scientist in Paleobotany at the UCMP. Learn more: ucmp.berkeley.edu/2025/04/appl...

Congrats to Dr. Diane Erwin who was selected as a recipient of a 2025 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award! This is presented to staff who demonstrate excellence in their job duties and make significant contributions to campus. It is among the highest honors bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor.

🦎Iguana tell you something: new research shows species of iguanas in tropical Fiji are related to those in the deserts of North America! Check out the latest Evo in the News to learn more! evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/how...

🐞Calling all biology and environmental science instructors in SF Bay Area high schools or community colleges! UC Berkeley Dept. of Integrative Biology is offering a summer professional development workshop on evolution and climate change using lady beetles. Learn more: tinyurl.com/UEbeetleproj...

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

A recent Executive Order would gut the only federal agency dedicated to America’s museums. The Institute of Museum & Library Services makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. Take action now: www.congressweb.com/aam/95/

We appreciate your support for our Education & Outreach Programs and Field experiences for students during #CalBigGive! Thank you so much!

There’s still time to support the UCMP during #CalBigGive! Help the UCMP continue to bring students beyond the classroom, from the iron rich paleosol near John Day National Monument to the sandstone exposures at Kehoe Beach Point Reyes National Seashore. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...

Your gift supports our Education & Outreach efforts just like VENOMventure, our pop-up escape style exhibit that travels to rural and urban communities to teach families basic concepts in evolution. Donations will be doubly meaningful during the #CalBigGIve Match Challenge! tinyurl.com/ucmpgiving

Good evening from the UCMP! #CalBigGive starts now and goes until 9pm tomorrow! Until then, enjoy some images from past field trips. These field experiences allow students to gain deeper understanding of fossils and deep time in geologic context. To donate: give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000

Support our Education & Outreach initiatives that bring students into the field. High school students participated in SF-ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in the San Francisco Bay Area) at Pt. Reyes National Seashore Pledge today! #CalBigGive give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000

Support science and the UCMP this Thursday during #CalBigGive! Pledge to support our Education & Outreach Program! Read more about our dedication to science and our diversity of STEM Ed resources on our blog:https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/2025/03/support-science-and-the-ucmp-during-cal-big-give/

DNA versus RNA? Bird flu versus coronavirus? Check out our latest Evo in the News at our sister site Understanding Evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu) to learn what their evolutionary similarities and differences mean for public health. evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/is-... (PC: phil.cdc.gov)

✨Space out with us on Saturday March 1, 2025 during the UCMP Short Course: The Making of Habitable Planets and the Origin of Life! Join a panel of UC Berkeley professors and scientists discussing the origins of our solar system, the Earth, and life as we know it. ucmp.berkeley.edu/short-course...

Happy Valentines’s Day! We think T. rex is T-riffic! 💌💝💘❤️💕

New hypocarnivore occurrence from Los Padres National Forest, in Chumash land, based on specimens collected 60 years ago by Paleo 127 students at UC Berkeley. One of many gems in the @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social collections receiving renewed curatorial attention! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....