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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

10,000 dermestid beetles cleaning flesh from animal carcasses without damaging bone structure for my @thepalass.bsky.social grant research, 'A novel #experiment using simulated #scavenging to investigate patterns of #skeletal #disarticulation in the #fossil record' #taphonomy #palaeontology

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Intriguing preliminary results already coming from my @ncn.gov.pl #Miniatura 9 grant research, 'Investigating patterns of #skeletal #disarticulation in the #fossil record using controlled simulated mass #burial #experiments' 👍🤫 #taphonomy #palaeontology

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Thank you to all the extraordinary women who fought for a seat at the table, and then turned around, pulled out a chair, and made room for me 🩷

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thank you to @paleontologizing.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my taphonomy fieldwork adventures 😊 Give us a watch at m.twitch.tv/videos/26354... Here is my favourite shot of the whole interview, clearly the true star of the show has emerged 🐱

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

BUSY stream today! We just interviewed Holly Anderson (@palaeophd.bsky.social) about her fieldwork adventures and taphonomy stories, and now we're gonna jump into #ThursdayBIRDSday before watching the 9th Annual Field Report from the Badlands Dinosaur Museum. Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

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Have a #taphonomic question about your research? Want to build a grant together? Come find me at the #2025SVP Banquet Dinner Table 38!

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Dr Justyna Słowiak of @ipaleopan.bsky.social presents her research on #conservation of the Mongolian #dinosaur collection of the Polish Academy of Sciences at #2025SVP

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Dr Julien Lubeek presenting his research on a micro #taphonomy assessment of Pleistocene fossiliferous #cave sediments and the implications for skeletal #preservation of #Gigantopithecus blackii in Guangxi, Southern #China at #2025SVP

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Madison Rose of @utoronto.ca presenting their research on the first dentally associated #postcrania for the family #Microsyopsidae revealing specialised traits of the wrist and ankle #primates #palaeontology #2025SVP

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Adam Rytel of @ipaleopan.bsky.social presenting his research poster on the rediscovery of well preserved #sauropterygian skeletons from the Gogolin Formation in #Poland and insights into the #evolution and spread of aquatic #reptiles in the Early/Middle #Triassic #2025SVP

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Dr Georgios Georgalis presenting his research on new #lizard and #snake remains from the late #Eocene of Escamps, France - diverse #squamate assemblage prior to the Grande Coupure #2025SVP

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Love very small and fluffy primates? Then come visit me and explore the interrelationships between fossil and extant lorisids, and their biogeographic origins at my poster B421 today 4-6pm! #2025SVP

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My #dermestid colony stripped a pack of chicken legs in just 24 hours! They even stripped the marrow of the bone. Think they are ready for the upcoming scavenging tasks I'll be assigning them in my #taphonomy research 👍

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#Ammonite hunting on Lyme Regis beach with new palaeo friends closed our #2025SVP fieldtrip 🥰

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

@dorsetmuseum.bsky.social had many treasures including Mary Anning's notebook, birds from Alfred Russell Wallace's collection, a signed first edition of the Origin of Species and the gigantic skull of #Pliosaurus Kevani! #2025SVP

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Sauropod footprints at Spyway Quarry, mulled cider by the fire at the Square & Compass, spectacular geo & palaeo at Dulworth Cove and a view of William the Conquerer's Cofe Castle for Day 2 of the #2025SVP field trip!

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Two significant items ticked off my bucket list on the #2025SVP fieldtrip to Lyme Regis, finally got to visit Mary Annings statue & pay respects at her grave 🥰🦴

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy #Halloween! The perfect day to feed my #flesh eating #dermestids their first fresh meat.... 🍖 #taphonomy

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My #Dermestid #beetle colony has had a huge population explosion! Lots of new crawlies to strip carcasses for my @thepalass.bsky.social #taphonomy grant! #palaeontology

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Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski

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Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski

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Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, UK @durhamearthsci.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My research with Dr Dom Suraprasit of Chulalongkorn University on ' #Taphonomic Insights into #Fossil Preservation and Accumulation in Tham Khao Phak Kut #cave, Peninsular #Thailand ', has been accepted for a Standard talk at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My #dermestid beetles have arrived! These little flesh eaters will strip carcasses for my @thepalass.bsky.social grant research. Thank you to Sarah at Dermestaria for this beautiful colony, I've wanted my one of my own since I was a teenager 😊🐜 #taphonomy #palaeontology

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

There is a unique satisfaction to pulling the plastic off a new #3Dprinter and watching the first models printing 💯

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

My first ever #dermestid colony is on its way! Very excited about this step of my @thepalass.bsky.social grant. Thank you to Sarah at dermestaria.com for all your help 😊 #palaeontology #taphonomy

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#Triassic #palaeontology #fieldwork in Miedary #Poland has begun! Our students and volunteers have already made some amazing discoveries.... 🦴

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our students and volunteers are settling into #palaeontology #fieldwork in sunny Miedary in #Poland, hunting for #Triassic #fossils 🦴

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Invited speaker Dr. Krister Smith reveals 'The #taphonomy and #biodiversity of the #Eocene #Messel Pit' at #EAVP2025

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@melaniarocks.bsky.social leads us in 'Exploring the post-canine mandibular #dentition of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (#Primates, Hominoidea): a #3D approach' at #EAVP2025

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Thank you to everyone who came to my #EAVP2025 talk, 'Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (#Primates, #Strepsirrhini) and the question of their biogeographic #origins'!

#conodont and #fossil #fish experts Przemysław Świś and Wojciech Pawlak chair the session at #EAVP2025

Wojciech Pawlak discusses 'The most complete #cranial #anatomy of a #fossil ginglymodian revealed by a new #fish specimen from the Late #Triassic of #Krasiejów (#Poland)' at #EAVP2025

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#Turtle expert Milan Chroust presents his #EAVP2025 poster, 'Heosemys mossoczyi, a puzzling geoemydid #turtle from the #Pliocene of #Poland'

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Like cute, fluffy lorises? Ever wondered where these little guys came from? Then join me in the main session of #EAVP2025 at 11.45 to explore the #biogeographic origins of lorisids and their #fossil relatives

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Przemysław Świś opens Day 3 in the Fish and Conodonts session of #EAVP2025 analysing 'The #ontogeny of the Late #Devonian #conodont Tripodellus gracilis based on growth increments'