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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s been a great first week as a postdoc at Yale! As a recovering CT hater, I can say that I really like it here so far. But ask me again in the winter…

Triceratops statue in front of the Peabody Museum at Yale

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My collection of rollers has been hugely expanded after ~3 hours of fossil hunting in the rain this weekend. Gonna miss our frequent trips through Ohio!

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Benjamin Gill @sedgeochem.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Hagen (@spicegirl.bsky.social), who just successfully defended her dissertation this afternoon! Amy's dissertation is entitled Geochemical, paleontological and sedimentological exploration of the co-evolution of life and environment during the Cambrian Period.

Drs. Amy Hagen and Ben Gill stand next to Amy's dissertation presentation entitled Geochemical, paleontological and sedimentological exploration of the co-evolution of life and environment during the Cambrian Period.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Excited to share that last night I was honored as Virginia Tech’s PhD student of the year!! Couldn’t ask for a more perfect way to cap off my grad school experience😊

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Excited to share our new paper detailing key strategies we’ve used to run a science outreach program here in rural VA for 8 years! Definitely an adventure publishing in a new field but I had an awesome team behind me the whole way. #scicomm #outreach #science jces.ua.edu/articles/10....

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Tapping into the Success of Science on Tap New River Valley: Lessons Learned from Eight Years of a Community-Centered Science Outreach Program | Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

New paper out today assigning a cnidarian affinity to the early Cambrian small shelly fossils Salterella and Volborthella! Fun work to be a part of, AND I get to add ‘paleoartist’ to my CV😉 doi.org/10.1017/jpa....

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A Cnidarian affinity for Salterella and Volborthella: implications for the evolution of shells | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

A Cnidarian affinity for Salterella and Volborthella: implications for the evolution of shells

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Last week I sat down with my colleague Rose to recap my 2024 paper for the VT Geos department podcast! youtu.be/nZQExNop_ZI

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Iron, Clay, and Redox with Amy Hagen

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Turns out putting a school-sanctioned golf course right next to a school-sanctioned student parking lot is a really bad idea! Thanks VT🫡

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It’s really great to see programs like this out here, but they’re missing a critical group: postdocs! We need to be investing in the next generation so that we continue to have a solid pipeline from PhD to faculty. We’re at risk of falling through the cracks. Not that I’m biased or anything…

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Goodbye to one of my two opportunities to get a federally funded postdoc fellowship. I’m trying to carry on as normal but it seems like each day things get more hopeless…

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I’m going to be very busy the rest of the week. Taylor Swift needs my manuscript by Friday!

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Got to check Kīlauea off my geology bucket list this weekend! Had a wonderful time despite the eruption being paused.

A view of Kīlauea crater with smoke emanating from the vent.

A scraggly tree growing on the Kīlauea Iki crater floor

A close up of the ground downwind of the crater, with tephra, Pele’s hair, and olivine.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Microbes were going crazy after Snowball Earth. Very cool to see the Rasthof Fm cap carbonate in Namibia!

Close up photo of a rock with tiny squiggly white and black lines

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This is beyond devastating. I can’t believe this is our reality right now… 0 geoscience postdocs for 2026? Seriously, wtf am I supposed to do???

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Just booked tickets to my #1 fieldwork bucket list location: Namibia!!! 🇳🇦

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Really excited to participate in this virtual panel as part of #ScienceTalk 2025! The VT SciComm ecosystem has been one of my favorite parts of my time at Virginia Tech😊

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My interpretation of Pokemon x fossil organisms! First up: Anomalocaris, colored hot pink because why not. Who should I do next? #paleoart

A Pokemon card-style drawing of Anomalocaris, a Cambrian fossil arthropod.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Probably the only time I will get to say this in my life: My paper came back from review and one reviewer said it should be accepted AS IS (!!!)

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Bighorn sheep skull from the Pahranagat Mountains, Nevada! The horns can weigh up to 30lbs (they sure felt heavy to me!)

A bighorn sheep skull and part of the spine sitting on the ground amongst rocks and desert vegetation.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Merry Fieldmas! Recently returned from some chilly fieldwork in western MD. We finally finished the section I’ve been working since 2020 — over 2000 meters measured!

A person stands on a gravel path next to a large limestone cliff. It is a cold, cloudy day.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Fossils **in outcrop** in Calvert County, MD! Most of the time we find these Miocene shells in loose sediments, but this bed in my local park preserves them as internal molds.

A person stands on a layer of rock with many large shell fossils in it.

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Only a few more days left to access my new paper for free! Iron speciation, archaeocyaths, and more in the December issue of Chemical Geology: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jxxO26gan...

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Big news: I’m headed to Australia in just over a month to participate in the ANZIC (Australia & NZ’s IODP branch) Marine Geoscience Masterclass in Queensland, fully funded thanks to the USSSP!! I can’t even express how freaking excited I am!!! 🪸🌞🌊

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Photo really doesn’t do it justice, but this is my tribute to phosphorus speciation, the scariest of all geochem lab procedures. 👻

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Dr. Amy Hagen @spicegirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Hi! 👋 If you’re heading to GSA next weekend please consider checking out my talk on Sunday morning! Should be a fun discussion of the weird & wonderful Harkless Fm and the Fe speciation proxy😊

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