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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Current vibes: (Writing my dissertation while in South Africa for museum research and field work) Looking forward to trading my laptop for a headlamp the next few weeks!

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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Calling all Quaternary paleontologists- Abstracts submissions are open for #SVP2026 annual meeting! My labmate Alyssa McGrath, and I are convening a symposium “Local and Global Drivers of Late Quaternary Extinctions” this fall in Cleveland. Submit your abstract and join us! 🦴🦣🔬

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

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W. Andrew Barr @wabarr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I am really excited to share news of this new jaw...until now Paranthropus had been conspicuously absent from the Afar. Fieldwork at Mille-Logya is not easy, and this fossil is the result of years of very hard work (and a lot of days of dry screening by our team)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus - Nature

With its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in east...

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Cara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#FossilFriday recap of a great field season excavating Pleistocene mammal fossils in the Cango Valley of South Africa! Featuring lots of caves, lots of hyrax bones, great collaborators, and only a few snakes.

A hyrax mandible eroding out of karstic sediments

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Some of the specimens from our new study published this week! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... #FossilFriday

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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨new paper alert! 🚨 “Paleoecological implications of the large mammals from a late glacial hyena den at Besaansklip (southwestern Cape, South Africa)” We present a detailed analysis and description of the mammalian fauna from a late glacial fossilized hyena den in South Africa. (Link below)

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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Had a great week in Denver for the paleoanthropology society conference with #SAA2025 and a few days in the mammalogy collection at the Denver museum researching African bovids! It was so nice to meet new people and catch up with old friends

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Nature @nature.com · 04/02/2025

The US National Science Foundation, a major funder of basic academic research, has reopened a website that distributes money from research grants to scientists go.nature.com/4hhd5Aq

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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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Kathryn Sokolowski @kathryn-soko.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thanks Kaedan! happy to have finally made the switch to a platform I can post (infrequently) about my research and not deal with sexist comments 🎉 Follow along for updates on South African paleoecology, mammal paleontology, and human evolution!

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