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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wait! I was wrong. One more. Congrats on wrapping up your Master's @athenavohs.bsky.social, and have a blast pursuing your PhD at CU Boulder!

Final Paleo Club poster, thanking this year's participants. Several extinct tetrapods are depicted with speech bubbles conveying that sentiment.

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I graduated!!! I’m now the master of mammals 🐑🦒🦬

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

As the academic year winds down, continued excellence from the U-M Paleo Club graphics department (revealed to be @athenavohs.bsky.social).

Flyer for UM Paleo Club. The meeting focuses on grad school advice for undergrads (e.g., selecting schools, mentors, projects). It includes a graphic of a stage with extinct animals wearing medals, graduation regalia, etc.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Paleo Club graphics team is batting 1.000.

Poster with St. Patrick's Day theme advertising U-M Paleo Club's March meetings featuring theropods frolicking in a field of clovers.

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The first Serbian dinosaur fossils have been discovered! Delighted to have been invited by Serbian colleagues to contribute to this paper (available in early view) describing Late Cretaceous sauropod and theropod fossils www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo

Diverse and abundant continental vertebrate assemblages are known from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of several European countries. T…

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New specimen of Archaeopteryx described (the one housed at the Field Museum in Chicago), providing new info on the skull and soft tissue: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)

Photo and diagram of the fossilized skeleton and feathers of a bird-like dinosaur.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Colorado Plateau field trip day 4!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Colorado Plateau field trip day 3!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Colorado Plateau field trip day 2!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Colorado Plateau field trip day 1!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Happy graduate student appreciation week from (just some) of my favorite fellow grads!!

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning! Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴

A painting of a portrait of the palaeontologist Mary Anning. She is wearing a long, tiered dark dress, a bonnet and a red scarf. She’s holding a wicker basket around her elbow and a hold a hammer in her hand. Her other hand points to a small dog on the ground.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

No fewer than 165 of my books and papers have been stolen by Meta, to train AI that will make them billions. I've been paid $0.00. If you want to read my real words, avoid the AI-generated crap and check out my upcoming book on bird evolution next year. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy international women in STEM day!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Two summers ago, I went to Craters of the Moon as part of my geology field camp. I stumbled across this photo and forgot how much I loved the birds!

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Feeling this so hard this semester! Ready for a good one though, I may or may not have a descriptive paper coming out this summer 🫢

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Zach @reallyoldfish.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you’ll be at SICB in January, come see my talk titled “Hidden trophic diversity in early ray-finned fishes: evidence from the Carboniferous Sphaerolepis” on Sunday, Jan 4th, in the Morphology and Mechanics session. Come chat to talk fish, paleontology, or science in general!

an early ray-finned fish under a microscope with a foam background

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Athena Vohs @athenavohs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Semester 1 officially comes to a close!

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