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Jason Anderson

@jsanderso.bsky.social
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Vertebrate paleontologist from University of Calgary. Been reading the odd book. Bad chess but ok mandolin player. Views are my own.

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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 22/08/2026
Thanks to @luxmy.bsky.social for having me on BBC News live today to discuss the effect of the latest US tariffs on my business. It's too long for Bluesky, but I managed to post the clip to LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #ElbowsUp
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Thanks to Luxmy Gopal for having me on BBC News live today to discuss the effect of the new US tariffs on my jewellery business. Here's the clip: | Cindy Baldassi
Thanks to Luxmy Gopal for having me on BBC News live today to discuss the effect of the new US tariffs on my jewellery business. Here's the clip:
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 22/08/2026
Thanks to @paytondm.bsky.social for interviewing me today for this Calgary Herald story on the impact of the new US tariffs & the cancelled trade talks So many businesses are going to suffer - please support your local & national merchants! 🍁 calgaryherald.com/news/local-n... @calgaryherald.com
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Calgary businesses brace for more uncertainty as Canada-U.S. trade talks collapse
After 18 months of uncertainty, Calgarians businesses owners brace for more impacts after Prime Minister Carney ends trade negotiation
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New paper day! From former MSc student Nathan Cochran's @paleodude.bsky.social work...you know how annoying it is to accidentally bite your lip? Imagine if you were a Dimetrodon!
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First observed cranial pathology in the early Permian synapsid Dimetrodon limbatus
Dimetrodon is an early non-mammalian synapsid from the early Permian of Europe and North America best known for its elongated neural spines, which in life formed an interconnected sail, and an earl...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Well done as usual Per!
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Volume 115 - Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson | Cambr...
Cambridge Core - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 115 - Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R...
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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Lots of meaty papers from Tim Smithson's festschrift. In addition, we contributed a little paper on a lungfish otoccipital from the early Mississippian of Nova Scotia. Nothing fancy but it shows affinities with groups previously known only from the Devonian. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes the description of the back of two ray finned fish skulls. These show that in the earliest Carboniferous aged rocks at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, there was a mix of ancient forms and more advanced fish known from younger rocks. #vertpaleo #paleontology
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Two partial actinopterygian neocrania (occipital ossifications) from Blue Beach, Nova Scotia
The earliest Carboniferous period (Tournaisian stage) is a crucial interval in actinopterygian evolution, but the actinopterygian fossil record for this stage is dominated by flattened specimens refer...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Long time no see! Welcome here
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congrats to Nathan Cochran for passing his MSc exam on sexual dimorphism in Dimetrodon!
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes a new predatory fish from the earliest Carboniferous deposits of Blue Beach, Nova Scotia. This is the first fish in the fossil record to have its largest teeth in the rear of its jaws. #paleontology #vertpaleo #paleosky
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A new predatory actinopterygian from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia provides insight into the evolution of actinopterygian feeding
The Devonian–Carboniferous transition represents a fundamental shift in vertebrate faunal composition and ocean ecology. Tournaisian-aged outcrops of the Horton Bluff Formation from Blue Beach, Nov...
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 25/04/2025
RIP Taz, our goofy little mutt with short front legs that brought so much joy to everyone she met, and has left a huge hole in our home. #dogs #DogsOfBluesky #RescueDog
Our dog Taz at the Calgary Humane Society the day we met her, with my hand on her collarOur dog Taz in the backseat of the car after romping in the snow.Taz doing Taz things, laying outside of her bed with her legs inside itTaz at the "dog spa" aka kennel on Christmas Day when we were out of town
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The closing date for our positions in Veterinary Anatomy is May 15th, not the April date in the header of the Science Careers posting. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs #anatomy #VetMed #YYC
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary - Calgary (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Calgary - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 670361
The University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is seeking two academic scholars for full-time positions in Anatomy.
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Join our team teaching Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Calgary! We are hiring two positions to start in the Fall teaching in our new integrated curriculum.
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary - Calgary (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Calgary - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 670361
The University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is seeking two academic scholars for full-time positions in Anatomy.
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I would need to get permission from the Museum nationale d'Histoire Naturelle first. Scott, can you do 3D printing? There could be options for you that way too
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
A detailed thread on a new study of recumbirostran Hapsidopareion. Well done @semifossorial.bsky.social !
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Important new paper: Rogers et al 2025, Updating the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation of Montana: Lithostratigraphic revisions, new CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb ages, and a calibrated framework for dinosaur occurrences. 35 pages, worth reading! pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/...
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 28/12/2024
My dog is kinda odd #DogSky #pets #DogsOfBluesky
Dog lying with almost all of her body on the floor but her back legs in her cuddle bed.
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 23/11/2024
Our 15-year-old pup Taz just loves to go bounding through fresh snow, even though she has very short legs #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky #pets #dogs www.youtube.com/shorts/UvZ4_...
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Taz on a walk in the snow
YouTube video by Jason Anderson
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It seems like many of us here could use a reset. So for the next week, I’ll post serene videos from Hawaii. 🌺 #3 Gold dust day gecko eating a papaya in Hana, Maui. 🦎
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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 16/11/2024
There are now more than 80 #indiebookstores in the starter pack. Can we get it to 100 by Monday? Don't forget to use the list when buying books for the holidays! Support small businesses rather than billionaires whenever you can. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 15/11/2024
Canada Post's main carrier union is now officially on strike www.cupw.ca/en/strike-fr...
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STRIKE ON FRIDAY: Here’s What You Need to Know
On the morning of Tuesday, November 12, your National Executive Board issued a 72-hour strike notice to Canada Post for both the Rural Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) and Urban Operations bargaining uni...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
yeah lists, starter packs are very recent. Apologies!
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Was a while ago and they might have been lists too I suppose. Will dig around and see what I turn up. Things here are changing fast, as all can appreciate!
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There are other starter packs for VP out there as well FYI. Would appreciate an add as well
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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Starter pack of vertebrate paleontologists! There are a fair few slots left so if you’d like to be added or nominate someone to be added, drop a comment or shoot me a DM! go.bsky.app/VLmSB1B
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
La Croix: Surströmming
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
*Logs onto Chessable for the first time in months* Oh hey, a new badge for having over 1000 variations to review! (Number of actual variations: 3500)
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I've been here a while but there are tips here that were new to me!
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
We have 2 spots in the Biological Imaging Apprenticeship. 15 credits. Strong financial aid available. Learn CT, SEM, and other applicable imaging techniques. Now with the correct QR code!! 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs. Cutting edge tools at the water's edge. Please retweet.
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Um, his head appears to still be in the air while paper bag is fully occupied. This poor cat suffers so much
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/10/2024
The Beaverton Is Dying. Unless You Save It
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The Beaverton Is Dying. Unless You Save It
We need your help
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 28/10/2024
Tonight's sunset #Maui #vacation
Beach sunset, orange with clouds.
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 26/10/2024
Watching the World Series at a tiki bar. (South Shore Tiki Lounge) #GoDodgers #LADodgers
Margarita in a Tiki glass, in a Tiki bar. World Series on the tv
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 23/10/2024
I am on vacation so not very active here for the next 2 weeks - posting a few sunsets to make up for it. This was today #Maui #Kihei
sunset on an ocean beach, deep pink with grey and pink clouds against blue sky. The sunset is reflected at the edge of the water.
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 23/10/2024
And this was yesterday's sunset. Overall, better, but not as pink. #Maui
sunset on an ocean beach, orange and yellow along the horizon with pink rays shooting up.
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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Earlier this year, @arvalis.bsky.social commissioned me to build a muscle model of a Komodo Dragon. Lizard anatomy is well studied, but many resources are hidden in literature often unknown/inaccessible to artists. The mission was to make an idealised, artist-friendly reference for lizard muscles.
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Hello all and welcome to Bluesky! I will eventually get through all of the follows for follow backs but there are a lot of you! Stay tuned for upcoming new fossil fishes, amphibians, and reptiles! But first, off to commune with living fish and reptiles...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
New paper day! This is the second in our series of revisions of early amniotes. This was started using old latex peels until the original fossils thought lost were relocated.
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A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes - Swiss Journal of Palaeontolo...
The Upper Carboniferous protorothyridid amniote Brouffia orientalis from Czech Republic is redescribed. Photogrammetric scanning of the holotype and only known specimen yields considerable new informa...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Nice to see so many more paleontologists on Bluesky!
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 18/07/2024
Took a mountain day today; met a juvenile black bear! Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Rocky Mountains (Sorry they are blurry; car was moving)
front half of a black bear, surrounded by plants & treesblack bear walking through grass & flowers
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 05/07/2024
Spent yesterday in Kootenay National Park for our wedding anniversary, and caught some blurry photos of a not-fully-grown grizzly bear by the side of the road. @jsanderso.bsky.social #RockyMountains #BritishColumbia
A blurry photo of a grizzly bear on its hind legs, propped up on a guardrail, grass & trees behind itGrizzly bear watching traffic go by, standing behind a guardrail
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 11/05/2024
Aurora over Calgary, as taken just south of downtown, looking south Can't believe I saw them this well! (apologies for my shaky hands) #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
Aurora borealis, pink purple and green, with a few starsaurora borealis over apartment buildings, green with pink, and a few stars.
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Editorial in Science highlights the forgotten victims in academic misconduct investigations: the trainees
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Misconduct’s forgotten victims
The drumbeat of complaints over the poor treatment of graduate students and postdocs in academic science continues. As explained on this page, there is a seemingly endless “slow-motion crisis” of stri...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology's annual Speaker Series schedule is now up! If you have been thinking of visiting the best bone museum I know of but weren't sure of when to go, perhaps one of these dates might inspire you to finally do it! #paleontology #paleosky
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Speaker Series | Royal Tyrrell Museum
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
I wrote an encyclopedia article now out! No, you still can't cite it as a primary reference...
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Tiktaalik
Tiktaalik is a genus of lobe-finned (sarcopterygian) fish from the Devonian Period found on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago. A singl...
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · 16/11/2023
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Glad to see you here!
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Shoot blues, tell Vilerat
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Always wanted to be a fossil preparator but couldn't find a job? The Canadian Museum of Nature in Gatineau/Ottawa is hiring!
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Fossil Preparator - Canadian Museum of Nature
Your place at the Museum We value diversity and believe we benefit from working in a place where everyone feels included and where the unique qualities and strengths inherent in a diverse workforce ar...
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Jason Anderson @jsanderso.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
New paper day! This projected started when Jenny Clack passed latex peels of this specimen to me and Taran 10+ years ago. Jozef later found the originals, presumed lost, in Prague. Wonderful to see out! Another on this topic is forthcoming journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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A review of Coelostegus prothales Carroll and Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech ...
We redescribe the holotype and only known specimen of the early eureptile Coelostegus prothales from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic using photogrammetric scanning and a virtual 3D rendi...
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