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Matthew Aaron Brown

@matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social
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Examining the intersection of the history, philosophy, and practice of paleontology | Museum Director, Eagle Scout, National Parks, Fossils Live From Austin, Texas

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Taking another stab at the ol’ Bluesky on #nationalfossilday and reposting this in-progress reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni (which hadn’t been named yet last time I posted it.) Half the size of the famous Q. northopi, this is the only place you’ll see these National Park Service fossils.
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My shiny new pallet jack arrived today, on a pallet. Which the delivery guys picked up off the lift gate and set inside the door. Wish we’d had an easier way to move it. Maybe I should order another pallet jack.
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s endlessly funny to me that invariably the IT department sends out phishing warnings and then right after HR sends an email soliciting personal account info that breaks all the rules from our IT training.
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“On a Sunday morning sidewalk, I’m wishing Lord that I was stone” A couple old fossils, 25 years apart. @suethetrex.bsky.social
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Here’s a post from my PBL (Pretty Big Library) for #MarbledMonday, an 1897 copy of T.H. Huxley’s “Methods and Results” which was previously housed at the State Lunatic Asylum, so in a way it never really changed hands. #libraries
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Two years ago I returned the loan of this amazing Vancleavea skull to Ghost Ranch. It had been in Austin for CT scanning, and needed a courier to bring it home. #paleontology
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Quetzalcoatlus is also my safe word
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Barnes and Noble has no chill
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Weird, prior to this week my last tweet here was exactly one year ago today. So here’s another look at this gigantic Alamosaurus pelvis that weighs roughly 2200 pounds.
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am pretty pleased with myself over this paint job on #MammothMonday #TexasFossils
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Since Homotherium kittens are in the news, here’s a side by side size comparison of an adult jaw next to a juvenile jaw from Friesenhahn Cave #texasfossils #fossilfriday #kitten
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
When Man-Eating Miocene Beavers Ruled the Earth #texasfossils #fossilfriday #paleontology #Anchitheriomysbuceei
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thinking back to simpler times just a few weeks ago, when I was bringing a giant fossil beaver replica named after a gas station on an airplane to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Minneapolis. #texasfossils
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
It’s Sauropod Sunday so here is the ilium of Alamosaurus, a titanosaur discovered in Big Bend National Park.
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
My very first 3D print for #FossilFriday, a 1/3 scale Tiktaalik skull File courtesy of the Nunavut Fossil Vertebrate Collection
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 30/10/2023
Well that's new - American Chemical Society sent along a code for free membership to folks who reviewed for their PRF grants. Wish other orgs would offer free membership for reviewers...
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History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The Library of Congress provides World Digital Library materials free online. Thousands of digitized historical sources from all over the world from the middle ages, to the 20th century. 🗃️ www.loc.gov/search/?...
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Me last week on my way to #2023SVP to attend a paleontology conference and catch COVID. #fossilfriday
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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Hello world! This is my first tweet on Bluesky. Whats the character limit on here anyw
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