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To investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth’s biota through research and education. ucmp.berkeley.edu

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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr. Lisa White (the UCMP’s Director of Education & Outreach) will be receiving the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2026 Claudia Alexander Award for Advancing Inclusivity in STEM! Congrats Lisa! www.agu.org/honors/stem/...
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Strömberg Lab @stromberglab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excited to share 8+ years of work on a #geochronology framework for Oligocene-Miocene #paleofloras in the Pacific Northwest! Check out paper by Alex Lowe @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social, Mark Schmitz @boisestate.bsky.social + colleagues @burkemuseum.bsky.social: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geospher...
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Annie Alexander died #OTD in 1950. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)
A black-and-white studio portrait of Annie Montague Alexander, an early 20th-century American philanthropist, explorer, and paleontologist. She is depicted in a three-quarter view facing slightly to the left, with short white hair, wearing round wire-framed glasses, a dark high-collared blouse or dress with a light collar, and a brooch pinned at the neck. Her expression is serious and composed against a plain, softly textured gradient background.A black-and-white photograph from an early 20th-century field expedition showing Annie Montague Alexander (center) standing outdoors in a rugged, rocky landscape with sparse vegetation. She has short white hair, wears a light-colored jacket, scarf, and practical outdoor attire, and smiles gently at the camera. To her left is another woman in a dark outfit and wide-brimmed hat holding papers; to her right, a third woman in a light hat and coat. The scene captures a moment of camaraderie during fieldwork, likely related to fossil collecting or natural history exploration.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Namaste in class! Check out Prof. Jack Tseng talk about Sloth Yoga in his pedagogical approach to teaching his IB 24 course “Extreme Mammals!” This lecture was a part of our Think Evo Institute supported by the Joan & Bob Field Evolution Education Fund. #sloth #fossilfriday youtu.be/2nvE2NYYv38?...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tater-ly new Evo in the News! Find out how a potato-heavy diet seems to have shaped the evolution of ancient Andean people and learn about the random nature of mutations in evolution. (PC: Sara A. Fajardo) #stemEd #evolution  evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/hum...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How on Earth did life get its start? Explore a compelling hypothesis about how (and where!) life originated in Understanding Evolution’s new module: evolution.berkeley.edu/the-origin-o... Thanks to the Joan & Bob Field Evolution Education Fund for their generous support.(PC:CDC) #evolution
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Z. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A digital treasure trove of Quaternary #fossils from @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social now available! Efforts by PhD students from @liujuan.bsky.social's FAM Lab, UCMP's Pat Holroyd, and the small but mighty FAVE Lab CT made this open access resource possible: doi.org/10.1080/0272... @jvertpaleo.bsky.social
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Computed tomography datasets and 3D models of California Quaternary tar seep faunas for education and research
The Rancho La Brea and McKittrick asphalt seeps of California have produced exceptionally rich Cenozoic fossil assemblages, preserving late Pleistocene to Holocene fauna from distinct environmental...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A SECOND Science cover out by UCMP curator Z. Jack Tseng and lab!
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy #FossilFriday! 🐟New fish species described from Professor Juan Liu and Jiang-Yong Zhang! In their paper published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, they describe Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov., a fresh water cypriniform fish found in Guangdong, China. doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🎉Another UCMP paper in Science, this time on the cover! 🎉
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🌿Brand new research out in Science today about angiosperm reproductive strategies and how they preceded the K-Pg mass extinction, led by UCMP PhD student, Jaemin Lee, and curator, Cindy Looy!🌿 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Diversification of angiosperm reproductive strategies predated the end-Cretaceous extinction
Angiosperm reproductive evolution is traditionally linked to the end-Cretaceous biotic crisis and subsequent ecological restructuring. Here, we report diverse and unexpectedly large diaspores (dispers...
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"...there are actually so many positive reasons to have museums that it’s difficult to choose just one." - Dr. Alton Dooley SUPERB post about the important of #museum collections. life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/why-museums/
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Why Museums?
"Museum collections provide the record of past research, and the baseline for future research."
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Natural Science Collections Alliance @nscalliance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🦖Check out this new National Park Service (NPS) newsletter article written by UCMP undergrad, Ronaldo Monroy, about his experience creating a educational paleontological resource in both English and Spanish. 🦖 www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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Digging the West: A Journey Through Time in the National Parks (U.S. National Park Service)
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New resource available! Check out, "Digging the West: A Journey Through Time in the National Parks", an online, interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that walks readers through geologic time in our National Parks. This was made possible via a Paleo in the Parks Fellowship and is available in English & Spanish
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Digging the West: A Journey Through Time in the National Parks
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Ashley A. Dineen @aadineen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st! paleo.memberclicks.net/the-paleonto...
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The Paleontological Society Collections Grants
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Sally G Pasion @sgpombe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Enthralled with #DrLisaDWhite sharing her history and science at #SFSU @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar. @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Director of Education & Outreach #SF_ROCKS #geologist. Who knew the @tarpits.org #direwolves had been stored at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #SatherTower??
View of classroom with many rectangular tables and many people seated around tables. All individuals are watching the front podium on the left as two students introduce seminar speaker Dr Lisa WhitwIntroductory slide for Dr Lisa White’s seminar. Title: Integrating paleontology collections, seagoing expeditions, and interactive web-based tools to enhance STEM instruction for undergraduate students
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you so much for your donations to the UCMP! These gifts directly fund our science education programming and support our students, the future stewards of science. We – and they – are deeply grateful for your donation. Thank you! Still like to help? Visit: give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🦖🦖🦖Support our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! They often volunteer for our outreach events, bringing their enthusiasm for science! There's still time to give! #CalBigGive runs until 9pm tonight! Donate now! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We’ve been digging deep to innovate in the science education space, with our award-winning web resources (read more here: ucmp.berkeley.edu/2026/03/ucmp...) to our newly refreshed to our escape-style game VENOMventure! Donate today! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Good evening from the UCMP! Our 24-hour fundraising drive starts now! 

Your gift directly supports our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! 
#CalBigGive starts now! Donate at give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000!   #paleontology #PointReyes
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Support our undergraduate paleontology club, the Paleontological Society of Berkeley! Your gifts to the Museum of Paleontology Fund directly supports their growth as scientists! #CalBigGive starts at 9pm tonight! give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0961000
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Mark Simmons @toysdream.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Now scanning my class notes from Saturday's paleontology lecture series at @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social. The last one was about the Cambrian explosion, which reminded me of these amazing paper models by Judith White Marcellini I saw at the Lawrence Hall of Science.
Cambrian explosion paper models by Judith White Marcellini at the Lawrence Hall of Science, May 2025.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🦖Can you lend us a hand (or longer arms?) Suppor the UCMP during Cal Big Give! Help T.rex grow our Eduction and Outreach Fund! Cal Big Give starts Wednesday, March 11 at 9pm! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2026/03/ucmp... give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000 #CalBigGive #tyrannosaurus #STEMed
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
During COVID, the early birds only had the worms! Did pandemic restrictions cause beak shape to evolve in a population of birds on a college campus? Read about it in Evo in the News! #STEMed #evolution #birding evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/did...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
UCMP Short Course on March 7, 2026! We'll explore "Life's Six Great Ways of Being." UC Berkeley scientists will discuss how new methods in molecular genetics give us a new perspective on traditional classification systems. Register for this free lecture series at: ucmp.berkeley.edu/short-course...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Congratulations to UCMP Curator Dr. Juan Liu, who has been awarded the 2026 W.M. Cobb Early Career Investigator Award in Morphological Sciences from the American Association for Anatomy! 🐟🐠Well done, Juan!🐠🐠
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🪨📜✂️ These lizards play an evolutionary game of rock-paper-scissors, vying to leave behind more offspring in the next generation. New research reveals the genetic rules they play by. Read more in the latest Evo in the News. #stemEd #evolution #rockpaperscissors tinyurl.com/lizardrockpa...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🌱UCMP welcomes Alexander Lowe as the new Sr. Museum Scientist of Paleobotany!🌱Alex received his PhD from the Univ of Washington and was a postdoc at the Smithsonian prior to arriving at UCMP. Alex's research focuses on reconstructing Cenozoic terrestrial vegetation and climate in the western US.
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Ashley A. Dineen @aadineen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand. job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Paleontology
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Happy Holidays from Santa Claws! 🎄🎄🎉🦖 #fossilfriday #trex #santaclaws
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thought to be invasive, these island iguanas are actually locals and have likely lived on their island for hundreds of thousands of years. This Evo in the News explains how researchers used evolution to figure it out. #geneticdrift #STEMed #evolution evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/is-...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We’d also like to highlight research conducted with fossils from this locality by international scholars who are utilizing new technology like 3D scanning which allows us to work with fossils in new ways and have a digital record that increases accessibility to these fossils.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
See the diversity of flora and fauna in the UCMP collections from the John Day Basin for #nationalfossilday Unidentified leaf in Clarno Fm, Coleoptera (beetle) fossil, lower jaw bone of alligator.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Happy National Fossil Day featuring fossils from the John Day Basin! UCMP holds more than 7,000 plant and vertebrate specimens collected there, including some of the first fossils cataloged at the UCMP! Fossil no. 13 in our vertebrate collection is a cervical vertebrae of an oreodont (1/3)
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Ashley A. Dineen @aadineen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The @paleosoc.bsky.social Collections Committee is gathering responses from anyone who works in a paleontological/geological collection in the US about the current state of funding. It can be submitted in as little as 5 minutes (but the more detail the better)! Link here: forms.gle/6C5E5GS4MZ58....
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New species alert!
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Join @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Undergraduate PaleoClub @paleoberkeley seminar series on Friday 10/3 with a talk by UCMP Assistant Director Lisa White on education and outreach. UCMP Director Charles Marshall will speak on 10/10. Interested students can join on Fridays, 5:30-6:30 pm, in VLSB 3059!
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
What did T. rex taste like? Find out in our updated interactive module that teaches middle and high school students about phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships. We’ve cooked up a modernized version of this teacher-favorite classroom activity! 🔗 ucmp.berkeley.edu/trex-module/ #STEMed
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Could hummingbird evolution be happening in your backyard? We’ve got a real humdinger of a story in our latest Evo in the News! Read more here: evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/hum... #STEMed #evolution #humminbirds
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Also in the news, checkout this interview with Lisa White, our Director of Education and Outreach on Tavis Smiley KBLA where they chat about dinosaurs, science education and outreach (students in the field), and diversity in STEM. 🦖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiys...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our facultyJack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social was featured in @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news again discussing our evolving idea of dinosaurs 🦖https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/26/a-t-rex-with-feathers-scientists-say-dinosaurs-were-likely-different-from-what-most-of-us-picture/
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A T. rex with feathers? Scientists say dinosaurs were likely different from what most of us picture - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley paleontologist Jack Tseng explains how new discoveries challenge our long-held beliefs about the world of paleontology.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Antibiotic resistance lingers long after the meds are finished. Learn more in the latest Evo in the News! evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/ant...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It's the last day of classes! Congratulations to all those graduating and good luck on your exams. Go Bears! 🐻🐻🐻🦖🐻🐻🐻
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Apply for Senior Museum Scientist in Paleobotany at the UCMP. Learn more: ucmp.berkeley.edu/2025/04/appl...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congrats to Dr. Diane Erwin who was selected as a recipient of a 2025 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award! This is presented to staff who demonstrate excellence in their job duties and make significant contributions to campus. It is among the highest honors bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🦎Iguana tell you something: new research shows species of iguanas in tropical Fiji are related to those in the deserts of North America! Check out the latest Evo in the News to learn more! evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/how...
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🐞Calling all biology and environmental science instructors in SF Bay Area high schools or community colleges! UC Berkeley Dept. of Integrative Biology is offering a summer professional development workshop on evolution and climate change using lady beetles. Learn more: tinyurl.com/UEbeetleproj...
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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A recent Executive Order would gut the only federal agency dedicated to America’s museums. The Institute of Museum & Library Services makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. Take action now: www.congressweb.com/aam/95/
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General Public: Urge Congress to Save IMLS
On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing further cuts to the government agency that efficiently provides CRITICAL funding to museums and libraries in all 50 states.The Institut...
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