Largest Paleontology Public Science Project | Collaborating with 8th Grade Teachers & Students | @NaturalSciences @DuelingDinos @BankOfAmerica
Raleigh, NC, USA
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TINY FOSSILS & BIG NEWS! We're officially launching Fall 2022! This public science project invites North Carolina students to make their own microfossil discoveries! @naturalsciences paleontologists are proud to bring prehistory to your classroom, courtesy of @BankofAmerica.
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Welcome Fona herzogae! A new species of subfossorial #dinosaur from our mid-K @NSF funded research that fills a gap in our record of North American thescelosaurs. Art by Jorge Gonzalez. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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For #FossilFriday, @AckermansNicole & I have a new paper out on the definition, usage, & protocol regarding the term "headbutting/head-butting/head butting" in dome-headed fossil taxa! What exactly is "headbutting"? Why a domed-head? Are domes rare? Read the paper to find out!
Cretaceous Creatures is going NATIONAL! Thru @bankofamerica funding + @dinocowboy microfossils, @naturalsciences @ncstatesciences paleontologists (@ExpeditionLive) are partnering w/ 8th graders across North Carolina (+ now USA!) to do real science w/ real fossils from Montana.
ALT 8th grade science student holding a tiny fossil in their hand
8th grade science teachers from these states are invited! Email [email protected] now!
🔸California🔸Florida🔸Idaho🔸Illinois🔸Maine
🔸Maryland🔸Michigan🔸Mississippi🔸Montana
🔸New Mexico🔸Oklahoma🔸Rhode Island
🔸South Dakota🔸Utah🔸West Virginia
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Very excited to share that we’ve found a skeleton (w/skull) of a new genus of Coniacian-Santonian ankylosaur! 🤩 filling a big glaring hole in North American dinosaur evolution #dinodig24
Cretaceous Creatures is wrapping up Year 2 & getting ready for Year 3! Registration is OPEN for #northcarolina teachers in the below counties! Partner w/ our #paleontologists: cretaceouscreatures.org/get-… #publicscience #microfossils #learninghappenshere
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Including a public science project allowing students to discover real microfossils from sediment buried near the #Duelingdinosaurs fossil and send them to @NaturalSciences for research called @CretCreatures
Cretaceous Creatures has reached ~14k NC students who have ID'ed ~4k microfossils from near where the Dueling Dinosaurs were found in Montana! Our buddy @SecReidWilson stopped to check out these big fuss over these tiny fossils. (L) Richardoestisia tooth (R) Lizard jaw.
It’s been a bit - been busy microfossiling. And so has Elise Flynn’s 8th graders at Polk County Middle! Making discoveries + making the news. We’re lucky to work w/ y’all.
tryondailybulletin.com/2024/…
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#LunchTimeDiscovery streams 2/7/2024 with Kamal Bell of @sankofafarms kicking off our Black History Month Series. Join us live at noon Eastern for "Cultivating Legacy: A Farmer's Journey to Climate Smart Agriculture" youtube.com/watch?v=68-rd5wK…
@NCDEQ @NaturalSciences @ncculture
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Thanks to @NASA astronaut Dr Kjell Lindgren for fascinating & inspiring presentation at @NaturalSciences #astronomydays ! He’s been to International Space Station twice for total of 311 days. @astro_kjell
A perfectly round fish vertebra from the Late Cretaceous, Hell Creek Formation, Montana #fossilfriday
Calling 8th Grade Science Teachers from these North Carolina counties!
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
You are invited to participate in Cretaceous Creatures - a new, free project where students do real science w/ real fossils. DM to grab your spot now!
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Bayshin Tsav has an insane amount of bone. First day prospecting I found 5 theropod claws, a therizinosaur humerus… oh yeah & a couple of hadrosaur skeletons too 🙄🤣 #MADEx23 #dinodig23 @natgeo
Weee’rrreee baaack! Happy 1st day of school for many #NorthCarolina students! And happy #MicrofossilMonday! Check out this gorgeous Pachycephalosaurus tooth we found in Montana this summer on @ExpeditionLive #dinodig23. Ready to see what our students find this year.
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I'm a guest editor for a special issue in the Journal of Science Education and Technology that's all about using ENA in STEM education research. Here's the full call for proposals: bit.ly/JOSTENA
Please share with colleagues, really looking forward to this!!
ALT Call for Proposals, Journal of Science Education and Technology Special Issue. "Using Epistemic Network Analysis to Provide Nuance Perspectives in STEM Education Research" Epistemic network analysis allows for researchers to explore qualitative and quantitative connections between learners and their environment and the intricacies of change in affect and practice over time. With this special issue, we seek to address intersections of STEM learning—including traditional disciplines, integrated STEM, and certain applications of computer science—and technology within online, computer-assisted, and traditional learning environments. Visit https://bit.ly/JOSTENA for more information 500 word extended abstracts due October 23, 2023
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Teachers, check this out! @NaturalSciences is working on a project meant to introduce middle school students to paleontology, which will also benefit researchers around the globe.
publicradioeast.org/2023-06-…
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Join us this Thursday for a Juneteenth Edition of Science Conversations. We'll celebrate the work of two African-American researchers — Dr. Patricia Bath (surgical procedure for cataracts) & Dr. Mandë Holford (researches snail venoms and pain medications) bit.ly/3oYcb6a
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Such a joy to see this animal reconstructed and published. An honor to be part of the crew and to have worked on this remarkable specimen! I💚Iani
Iani is an early-diverging ornithopod & possible member of Rhabdodontomorpha, a clade of controversial membership. Luckily, Iani has a beautiful disarticulated skull useful for piecing together ornithopod phylogenetics. Paper out in @PLOSONE today dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…