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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. A cable news host.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Yes, the pteroid is in the wrong place, this photo was staged at about 3am

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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 · 21/11/2024

About 15 years ago Tyrrell staff built a replica of Brown’s scow and took it on a river trip to prospect. I’m not sure if I’ve seen that replica on exhibit or another one, but I think it’s at Dinosaur Provincial Park. Maybe that could be digitized?

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If there’s still room, I’d throw my Marsh pick into the ring.

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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

It’s very, very rare when I can successfully paint a cast to look anywhere close to the plan I have for it in my head. Molding, casting, preparation, field work- these haven’t been my job for about ten years, so it’s a nice treat when they still turn out in the neighborhood I aimed for.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I feel like a decanter would leak all over the inside of my office desk drawer

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’ve been meaning to reread it and a few others for some time, but instead I just rewatch the movies.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I suppose I haven’t read LA Confidential in almost 30 years, but my recollection is that it was an excellent story undercut by Elroy’s overindulgent Tarantinoesque need to prove how cool he was. I suspect the racism and homophobia were very accurate to cops of the era, judging by cops today.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sunset algorithm found me, I took almost the same picture Saturday night.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Interesting, I read James Elroy first so when I got to Chandler and Hammett they seemed starkly less offensive.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That’s beautifully done. The Mayborn Museum in Waco on the Baylor campus has a similar intro.

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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

Well he’s posting feet pics for free, so it’s gonna be hard to keep up bsky.app/profile/arct...

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Sucking up to the new managements shows a real lack of backbone

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Sadly, when this was molded 30 or so years ago, the separator glued itself to the latex and the surface of the bone tore away. The stuff mold-makers nightmares are made of.

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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We just pulled one of ours off the shelf yesterday!

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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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Matthew Aaron Brown @matthewaaronbrown.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Pretty cool though for us paleontologists though, we’re cruising right up to the top of the list.

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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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