Assistant Curator & Assistant Professor at University of Michigan | @UMichPaleo & @MichiganEarth | Mesozoic & Paleocene Mammals | Denver Sports | Phish (he/him)
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined January 2017
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Why did so many of the groups that makeup modern terrestrial ecosystems originate and diversify in the Cretaceous? We propose that the “Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution” was sparked by a tectonic revolution that began ~100 Mya 🧵
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Honored to be recognized for my @Napc2024 presentation! Thanks to everyone who put together such an amazing conference.
PeerJ Congratulates David Treviño Ledesma @NHMLAC, Michael Chiappone @UMNews, and Mason Scher @Princeton Award Winners at NAPC 2024
Learn more about their research bit.ly/48OuRaP
@Napc2024 @DavidTLedesma @MichaelChiappo3 @scher_a
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What a week in Denver! Thank you to the folks at CU Boulder and @DenverMuseumNS for hosting me, I had a great time!
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Thanks for a very short (I only could attend for 1 day), but amazing @SVP 2025 in Minneapolis! 🤩💚
I really enjoyed the integrative approach of the symposium on 'Mammalian Life Histories' - so delighted for the opportunity to be part of this session!
🥚🦴🩻🔬🐭
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. @CAS_Loyola had an epic showing at #SVP2024. Such a pleasure to enjoy this epic conference with an incredible group of students.
Not a complete picture of active @UMichPaleo folks at #2024SVP, but close enough. To include all folks who’ve passed through, it would take a better camera. #LeadersAndBest
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I passed my dissertation defense on Tuesday!! Thank you to all who have supported me along the way!! 🦒🦌🐃🐐🦬
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Huge congrats to Dr. Alexa Wimberly who successfully defended her dissertation this week. There are many good things to come from Alexa, so keep an eye open! We'll miss her @UChicagoPaleo but she'll rock in her post doc at the AMNH!
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This work led by Will Brightly made it to the cover or AJB! @Botanical_
Correlated #evolution of dispersal traits & habitat preference in the #melicgrasses
New #AJB research by William Brightly, @botAna_Bedoya, McKenzie Carlson, Maria Rottersman, & @caestromberg
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16406 #botany @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
ALT Seed dispersal structures produced by members of the melicgrass tribe sampled in the present study. Images show the wide range of seed dispersal morphologies within the tribe, including several associated with wind dispersal (e.g., those producing plumose or winglike structures).
You won’t wanna miss the Evolution of Mammal Life Histories Symposium @ #2024SVP! Killer lineup, spanning early synapsids to Paleogene mammals. Be there or be a square non-synapsid vertebrate 😉
#ThinSectionThursday
@gsciencelady @funstonpaleo @SVP_vertpaleo
Happy #thinsectionthursday
In less than 1 week, I'll kick off the Evolution of Mammalian Life Histories symposium with a deep dive into 3D bone histology of the earliest synapsids 🩻🦴🔬👀
See you at #2024SVP!
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Happy #NationalFossilDay! To the left is a silicified tree trunk from Shokpakty-Ozek, a Late Cretaceous vertebrate locality in Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan.
To the right is a fossil hagfish from the Cretaceous of Lebanon. Happy Hagfish Day @reallyoldfish @Friedman_Lab!
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Huge thanks to our volunteers for making this year's ID Day @UMMNH a success! Your efforts helped identify over 300 artifacts, including a sauropod bone!
Learn more: lsa.umich.edu/paleontology/n…
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Just wrapped up describing the anatomy of this new turtle collected from 'intertrappean' horizons near Karnataka, India in 2023. A really interesting and beautiful specimen, prepared by Bill Sanders. On to the systematics!
(Kurmademys cast at L; Sankuchemys cast in background.)
ALT photograph of turtle specimens under a microscope
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🌟✨With Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month in full swing, we’re excited to continue spotlighting our community's incredible Hispanic and Latinx members. 👏🎓This week, we’re thrilled to hear from Professor Jeff Wilson Mantilla! 📖Read Jeff's story here: myumi.ch/Rm2eD
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Getting the ball rolling with a week
of cool science and river adventures at STRI. Something awesome
Is cooking!!! @NYBG
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Thanks to all of our amazing representatives from @umichpaleo at today's ID Day at @ummnh! @PaleoJB @FPaleontology @athena_vohs @reallyoldfish @JMJTShiffert @AnnaLWisniewski @Hadeeliooo @tariq_akareem @LynneaSimone @Friedman_Lab & more 🦕🌿🐚
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We put the MICRO in micro-CT this week @UMMZ_CTLab. Tiny Cretaceous mammal teeth turned out beautifully! Shoutout @AnnaLWisniewski, Haley Martens, & @RamonSN for helping this come together. #FossilFriday
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My lab brother's paper is out!! – at Ann Arbor, MI
Sauropod tail clubs from the Kota Formation (Lower to Middle Jurassic) of India and their implications for early sauropod evolution: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Want to help mobilize mammal specimen trait data for research, education, and outreach? See 🧵below! This is part of our @NSF funded ranges-network.org/ project, aimed at digitizing traits from >1M western North American #mammal specimens from 19 natural history #museums.
🐰 Announcing new project on Zooniverse: Notes from Nature - Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America! zooniverse.org/projects/md68…
