I also have to advertise the Saturday session w/ Shamindri Tennakoon, PhD , Dr. Jeanette Pirlo , Pedro Monarrez , Leila M Joyce Seals, PhD (she/her) who I’m just thrilled to b building something w/… but I will do a true announcement later, when I’m settled 🫥 stay tuned 🤫

20 years ago my undergrad mentor Dr. Aaron Velasco UTEP put me & 30+ students on a bus to attend the 2003 SACNAS conference in ABQ! Then Dr. Milka Montes, Aaron and I started the UTEP SACNAS Chapter! Here we are 20 years later in #2023NDiSTEM reunited!

siempre #FossilFriday en my heart, so come on down to #NAPC2024 and join me, Dr. Jeanette Pirlo , y Pedro Monarrez to chat about broadening paleo participation thru community engagement. Might debut my post human museo ed work there 🤫 come thru y’all 💕✨

Join us at the ONLY education and outreach session held at #NAPC2024 abstracts open through Jan 20th: sites.lsa.umich.edu/napc2024/prepa…

My academic hot take, for all faculty who teach undergrads: not only is it important NOT to support grade-grubbing, we need to tell them not to do it, and explain why. And then follow through on what we tell them! A short thread:

Abstract submissions for @napc2024 are live now through January 20th. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the two symposium sessions I’m co-convening! #napc2024 #stratpaleo #education #outreach Abstract submission Link: t.ly/4Nhee

[...frantically emails students...]

🚨new #preprint 🚨 Examining the interplay of #sedimentology and #paleontology in carbonate systems: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Tl;dr: 1. Maximum hiatus duration, not strat. incompleteness drives bias of fossil time series 2. Potential problems with methods to ID mode of evolution

Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4aF0Xqc

This #Paleobiology paper (led by Jansen Smith & Nussaïbah Raja) came out a few days ago, but I want to bump it because I think it's really important for best practices around data reuse in #paleontology Paper: doi.org/10.1017/pab.20… My blog: t.ly/NR6Nm 🧵👇

Indigenous knowledge of palaeontology in Africa | Geological Society, London, Special Publications lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP…

🚨 LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT 🚨 until the deadline for applications for this FREE WORKSHOP on spatial methods for analysing fossil data!

Wise words to elected officials (all over the country) from UGA students in the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition. There will be a memorial gathering for Laken and Wyatt on Monday at 3pm in Tate Plaza.

Excited to be a part of this study led by Dr Craig McClain!

This. I have stopped going to conferences because when people see my cal state badge they are not interested in engaging with me scientifically. It’s like you are not good enough and not at a R1 and your brain/ideas have degenerated since postdoc so not worth their time.

Great write-up by Riley Black 🦕🏳️‍⚧️ on mass extinctions, with some quotes by yours truly and Pedro Monarrez

The paleobiologist Carl Simpson uses computer modeling and experiments with living organisms to study whether the physics of cold water causes cells to act collectively like a multicellular creature. quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of…

We updated the data from our NatureEcoEvo paper for this (my parental leave project). Not a lot of changes (expected) but I hope to continue this so we can see how things are evolving! science.org/content/articl…