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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Hi paleo pals, I have a CT dataset where each of the bones has numerous cracks such that the bone is in a very slight 'exploded diagram' like displacement. Question: should I reconstruct the specimens by moving each isolated fragment digitally to remove as much of the space as possible? (1 of 2)

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Take a look at this wonderful piece featuring Ahvaytum! Be sure to check out the other works by @stavrossk.bsky.social

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Really great story by Taylar Stagner (Grist) @siisiiko.bsky.social on restoration of buffalo as an integral part of the ecosystem and the Eastern Shoshone' vote to classify buffalo as wildlife. Important read. apnews.com/article/wyom...

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In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

Earlier this month, the Eastern Shoshone voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock.

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

pretty amazing work by @akufner.bsky.social (and others) on the #taphonomy of a metoposaurid mass mortality assemblage from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Fm.

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is an awesome group of people doing some really good work in sci-comm and beyond! Follow them and see what kind of shenanigans we get up to!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Another fun paper on deep(er) time mechanistic ecological modeling by Deak and co-authors!

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Also true in palaeontology. In the UK, there is a risk averse approach to funding fieldwork by funding panels: as a result, field-based palaeontological work is in steep decline (along with taxonomy and systematics). Where will we end up if no-one is generating primary data anymore?

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

and another great study. can't wait to see this incorporated in very paleo!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

ok, this is just straight up badass.

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am incredibly excited to share our new Open Access publication in the @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social that was released today. Please welcome *Ahvaytum bahndooiveche*, a new species of sauropodomorph(?) dinosaur from the Popo Agie Formation, WY, USA. tinyurl.com/3zx7s3mx (1/x)

Image contains a small theropod dinosaur checking out a dead amphibian in a wetland forested ecosystem

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John Bird @johnbird001.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Acidification of the oceans as shown by the saturation state of aragonite (Ωarag), the free proton concentration ([H+]), pH on the total scale (pHT), and the anthropogenic carbon concentration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thanks for sharing the story of this fossil and the partnership it helped to form!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Can't wait to try this on some of our datasets!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ok BSKY friends... I've been absent from socials for a few years - i used to post family stuff (kids/etc) on FB/insta and used X for more professional stuff. What are folks doing? keeping you account Professional, personal, mix of both... or (1/2)

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Kindness, hard work, professionalism, and a passion for preserving the history of life for everyone was honored today with the naming of *Waukeshaaspis eatonae* after UW Geology Museum Curator, Carrie Eaton @carriethecurator.bsky.social

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I wanted to share this image of the type specimen of *Ninumbeehan dookoodukah* @calamanderso.bsky.social (bit.ly/3YTFep4) Prep was done by myself, and lab volunteer Brandon Price (a co-author on the paper). Note the tiny arm (posterior and ventral of the mandible)! #paleontology #geology #fossils

Fossil of the type specimen of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah from the upper Jelm Formation, WY. This fossil was named in Shoshone by the 2022 7th grade class from Fort Washakie School and Tribal Elders. The fossil shows a cone shaped amphibian skull ~ 6 cm in length, along with parts of the post crania still embedded in the burrow matrix it was preserved in.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I had to have a❤️to❤️ with my oldest child about this. First I caught them doing scratch tests (mohstly harmless). Then they're drawing equilibria diagrams (i thought it was just a phase). But texting BBS (=bone-bearing strata)? Too much!! Seen from afar, this #geology poison is rifting us apart.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’m currently recruiting earth/life sciences undergrads, grad students, postdocs, & professional educators for 2025 instructor & TA jobs in Sternberg Museum Science Camps! Info & application form here 👉 forms.gle/5EGnpKMhHRj9... Please share! ~40+ slots this summer! #paleontology #geology #biology

Informational flier about staff positions for the 2025 Sternberg Museum Science Camps+ program. Instructor and TA jobs available!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I love these pieces by @emmalerae.bsky.social. I had to restock at SVP as well. My kiddos love the smaller prints and helped adorn my partner's vehicle with them. ❤️ Mine already had one 😉

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The trailer for our What's in a Name documentary (WIND) is out in the wild! We are still working on the release date, but ultimately it will be OA once it is. The first taxon was published last week - <i>Ninumberhan dookoodukah</i> - and a second is in press (keep a 👀 out)! youtu.be/pEsWbRrJWSQ

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What's in a Name? (Official Trailer)

YouTube video by Wispering River Media (Ethan Parrish)

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I wanted to share our paper describing a new estivating latiscopid amphibian species from the Late Triassic (mid-Carnian) of WY. *Ninumberhan* was named by 7th graders and tribal Elders from the Wind River Reservation. Art by @serpenillus.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

reconstruction of small 230+ million year old fossil sleep coming out of estivation burrow. one did not.

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Love to see more of the Early Triassic swim traces coming to light!

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Dave Lovelace @paleobadger.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I haven't been on socials for the last few years because I couldn't stand all the background noise. 🤞

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