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Kiera D. Crowley

@crowleyk.bsky.social
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grad student @UofOklahoma K-Pg snail mass-extinction macroevolutionist turned late-Ordovician crinoid phylogeneticist

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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Feeling very honored to receive recognition from AWG for doing the work I love to do!
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I can hear them calling to me…
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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
THIS THIS THIS THIS
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Semi-infaunal squid? Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
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'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
In the last 11 days another 102 donors have given >than $40,000, with some other donations in stock waiting to become available for use. PRI can make it with your help! Please continue to share with your networks for potential donors so we can keep the museum and its online resources available!
Updated bar from Museum Mortgage landing page showing 332 donors and more than 2.1 million raised
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure #savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑 @lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
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Saving the Museum
After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We find that the Brightseat snails are indicative of overlapping influence from both northern and southern Danian zoogeographic provinces, though its composition appears more closely allied with faunas from Greenland and northwestern Europe.
Paleogeographic map showing hypothesized early Danian ocean currents and zoogeographic provinces.
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Brightseat gastropod fauna is well suited for transatlantic comparison, and is intermediate in geographic position between other well-studied assemblages including those from the Gulf Coastal Plain, western Greenland, and northwestern Europe.
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This monograph describes 52 gastropods, including 25 new species/subspecies, from the Brightseat Formation of Maryland, which represents the earliest Paleocene sediments which crop out in this region of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain.
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵
Cover image of the latest issue of the journal Bulletins of American Paleontology, showing species of Danian gastropods from Maryland.
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
⚒️ New paper out in Paleobiology with Aaron Goodman, W. Allmon, @crowleyk.bsky.social, A. Farnsworth, M. Hopkins, D. Lunt, and Cori Myers: Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Another day in the field with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History team on Anticosti Island. Here, Lena and I are joined by OU Geosciences grad students Kiera Crowley (Wright lab) and Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab)
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
This new exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth lives up to its name, with an amazing spread of modern and fossil specimens.
Sign for "Marvelous Mollusks", an exhibit at the Museum of the Earth. Font has a distinct traveling show/circus feel to it, and the color palette is vivid.
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
You’ve heard of elf on a shelf… but what about John Oliver on a PRI Tully Monster?
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Day 1 of photoshopping John Oliver onto/into fossils in the hopes that he saves my old museum, the Paleontological Research Institution I think he makes a great snail! Fossil is the Murex shilhoensis type, a junior synonym of Favartia shilohensis, comedian is H. sapiens #savepri #Museumofthearth
John Oliver in a suit and tie coming out of the aperture of a fossil snail on a black sand background.
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️ In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...
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Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural history museums in upstate New […]
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect and preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever.
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Every donation, no matter the size, helps in the short-medium term as we work to save the Institution: www.priweb.org/donate More info on PRI's website here: www.priweb.org/press-releas...
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Donate — Paleontological Research Institution
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New article by @science.org on the financial crisis at PRI. PRI has played an invaluable role in my personal growth as an academic paleontologist and Earth science educator. We *must* preserve organizations with such long-standing commitments to science education and wise stewardship of the planet.
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Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US). ⚒️🧪🦑 Please share widely and help if you can! ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
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Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors […]
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Kiera D. Crowley @crowleyk.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
I do not… I just stumbled across it. Can’t seem to find a definitive answer online either. But if some critical mass of gastropod enthusiasts have decided to endorse such an annual holiday, who am I to argue?!
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