Vertebrate Paleontologist PhD 🦴🦘• transitioned from academia into tech industry • Science Communication Enthusiast • Views are my own
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The last chapter of my dissertation is now published—check it out! Many thanks to my coauthors, the reviewers, and the folks at PE!
New paper finds #marsupials had diverse #diets, and achieved this diversity earlier in the #Cretaceous than other #mammal groups. The authors apply #DentalTopography to 71 extinct members of #Metatheria, finding they had more diverse #ecology than other #LateCretaceous #mammals.
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JOB ALERT! a new TT faculty hire in quantitative paleontology @NCStateSciences is posting SOON! It likely will not be posted by #2022SVP but members of the paleobiology research group (incl. myself & @terryagates) are happy to talk with prospective applicants in Toronto!
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Students and PostDocs in vertebrate paleontology – come visit @burkemuseum! Applications for the latest round of collections study #grants are due May 16th. Contact @gpwilson11 or @_katlande or @KelsieAbrams3 or me with questions. Details at: burkemuseum.org/collections-…
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The 2022 DIG application closes TODAY at 11:59pm PST. Apply soon! @burkemuseum @gpwilson11 @Wilson_KPg_Lab #paleontology #SciComm #professionaldevelopment #Geology #STEM #STEMeducation
The 2022 DIG application closes in just under a week! Apply today! @burkemuseum @gpwilson11 #paleontology #SciComm #professionaldevelopment #geology #STEM
HUGE congratulations to the newly minted Dr. @WaigePilson!! 🎉🎉 Super excited for you, especially as you take on your new position as the PB Collections and Lab manager at the @burkemuseum!! Yayy Dr. Paige!!
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Pls, I'm begging you, please check in with your grad students. It's been 2 years of stress and chaos. Some of them have never experienced grad school in "normal" times, and none of them are doing "well". Reach out.
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I'll be a mentor for 2 REU programs this summer! Tell your undergrads if they want to work with me on some museum-based research this summer!
1) American Museum of Natural History (due 1/31) amnh.org/research/richard-gi…
2) InSTInCT at UT Austin (due 2/15) biodiversity.utexas.edu/acad…
YAYYYY @lukenweaver!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Big congrats, buddy!!! So happy for you and proud of you!!✨✨✨ @UWBiology @UWPaleo @Wilson_KPg_Lab
Finally finished my first hand-made pillow ✨ Made some mistakes, but I learned a lot. Overall, I’m really happy with how both the cross stitch and hand sewing turned out! Just in time for Halloween 💀🎃👻
ALT A black pillow with a cross stitch pattern of a skull, roses, and moths. The skull and two moths are white with gray accents. One moth is red and beige. The last moth is gray, yellow, and red with a skull pattern behind its head. The roses are pink and red.
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🚨New paper out today in collaboration with Ken Angielczyk, @_gondwannabe_ , @ChristianSidor.
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Hello, future vertebrate paleontologists!
I am recruiting grads (PhD, DA, & Masters) for Fall 2022 at @isubiology and @IMNH208. 🏛️🔬⛏️
Send a CV to [email protected] and let's get you to Idaho!
Please share widely!
A bit delayed, but now that everything is submitted and finalized, it’s feeling more real. A few weeks ago, I successfully defended my PhD! I’m still overwhelmed by how many people attended and by all the love and support from everyone.
ALT Me standing in front of a large tv that is displaying the title slide of my defense. There is a small opossum-like mammal on the slide. I have a big smile on my face.
Lots of people to thank, but special thanks to my advisor @gpwilson11, the @Wilson_KPg_Lab lab, the @UWBiology community, all my amazing friends, and, of course, my family. Thanks for everything!! I don’t know what’s next, but I’m looking forward to it #PhDone #finallyPhinisheD
Congrats @freewillie643! Below is an awesome thread he put together about our new paper that’s now out. Taphonomy and fossil regurgitates from Egg Mountain 🥚🗻🦖🐀!! Excited to be a part of this study!
Happy to share our new study—a #taphonomy & #tracefossil double whammy—on potential troodontid regurgitalites (fossil regurgitates!!) from #EggMountain, out in @ThePalAss Palaeontology. Wonderful, grotesque art here by @montanastate student Clarissa Koos. 1/10
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Yoooooo it's #NationalNewJerseyDay!!!
Did you know that New Jersey played a major role in early paleontology? Hadrosaurus foulkii of the Woodbury formation in Haddonfield was the world's first mounted dinosaur skeleton and first North American dinosaur identified. @NJGov
Amazing new research out about lichen recovery after wildfires, and how this may affect caribou. Reminded me of the latest episode of The Wild podcast with @MorganWildlife. I had no idea that caribou eat lichen—so cool!
Can we predict lichen biomass recovery following boreal #wildfires? A co-led article with @ruthjgee and I as first authors, coauthors @forestecogrp, @jfjohnstone, @eliotmcintire, @n_j_day, @mariovantelgen, @ATruch, @queenofpeat and others @ESAEcosphere bit.ly/3aBD6dr a🧵
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Want to learn more about how we identified a Canadian dire wolf 🐺 specimen using geometric morphometrics? Then check out my #SVP2020 / #2020SVP poster presentation!
Also, shout out to @MesozoicMuse for the beautiful illustration!
Check it out here: 3439993.svpvirtual.org
ALT Preview of poster presentation title and author. Below left, image of the dire wolf specimen from Canada. Below right, reconstruction of a dire wolf by Danielle Dufault.
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OH! The sheer VOLUME of pictures you find when you now search #BlackInNature (on twitter AND Instagram)!
Educators: you now have more than enough content to feature Black faces when depicting outdoor explorers, so Black people (especially children) can see THEMSELVES for once!
LET THE #BlackInNature posts start pouring in!!!! DAY ONE of #BlackBirdersWeek and we’ve already seen some posts!!!! Don’t forget to use the hashtags and tag us in our celebration of Black peers in outdoor spaces 🍃🌿
