@ashpoust.bsky.socialAshPoust
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Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel. Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses. -What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you
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@ucmpberkeley.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialHappy National Fossil Day! UCMP is celebrating the educational value of fossil collections! Here are some examples of Pleistocene megafauna from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, similar to those found in White Sands National Park. Bison humerus, Camel lower jaw, and Tetrameryx teeth.
@americanbeetles.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialPosting some beautiful beetles in support of ANSP’s museum, collections, and staff! Bc eastern PA deserves a world class natural history museum too. @savetheacademy.bsky.social
@stevebrusatte.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialThis is Dubreuillosaurus. Known from one fossil, the holotype. Described in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2002. Accessioned into France's national collection, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, as MNHN 1998-13. Now up for auction. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
@extinctmonsters.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialHappy #NationalFossilDay 2026! Fossils connect us to the lands we live on and the ecosystems we're a part of. They show us that everything around us is part of a 3.5 billion years story that's still ongoing. I just think that's magical. ☮️❤️🦣🦕
@carolannie.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialWildlife overpass in Colorado reduces collision rates by 91%, amazing!
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@captainfossil.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialIt's #NationalFossilDay in the US! This year the site of interest is White Sands National Park in New Mexico, US, where human footprints document the earliest confirmed record of people in the Americas. Not coincidentally, a new paper on these fossils is just out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
@unsmmorrillhall.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialTo celebrate #NationalFossilDay we're sharing the story of our paleontology intern Kyra Mauntel & a #research trip she recently participated in. Because the only thing better than #fossils, is sharing science with students and the public. @ashpoust.bsky.social news.unl.edu/article/nebr...
@ashpoust.bsky.social... or the 1920's... ....or Darwin already did it.
@ashpoust.bsky.socialI recognize this replyguy is showing a particular kind of toxic benevolent prejudice. But it's also sexist against men? Sheridan le Fanu, Ted Chiang, Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguro? Sex is a poor heuristic.
@espiers.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialThere's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?
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@mostlymammoths.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.social❤️ The Cohoes mastodon at the NY State Museum.
@xrciseguy.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.social#FossilFriday: The front and hind limbs of the early whale Ambulocetus. On display at the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Paris, France.
@paleoadiel.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.social#FossilFriday student highlight! 😀 Easten Jenn is an intern in the UAMRC paleontology collection with me this semester. One project is cleaning and piecing together bones of Alabama's state fossil, the Eocene whale Basilosaurus cetoides! 🐋 Here are some of the ribs he worked on.
@ashpoust.bsky.socialVery interested!
@ashpoust.bsky.socialThanks. This is great and really well said. I'd argue that it's the same for the American version of the University too - similarly reclaiming something initially created for the nobility to serve the citizens of the nation. And being attacked now for comparable reasons.
@ashpoust.bsky.socialI cannot approve the message of this thread more whole-heartedly
@formorphology.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialAnd last (for now) but certainly not least, is this great piece on our study from science writer Asher Elbein for the esteemed yellow rectangle, National Geographic.
@formorphology.bsky.socialReposted by @ashpoust.bsky.socialGot some exciting new mosasaur research out today in Current Biology! How fast could these predators burst?