Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Deceptively evil puzzle, much like its inspiration: 170
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Here's another lab note for dino-mummy melanosome research funding drive @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @boydpaleo.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social, and I have been holding. We hit out most recent stretch goal, so of course I had to go and sneak a little taphonomy into the mix at the 11th hour.experiment.comFinal Stretch!Once again, we’ve hit our stretch goals with a little time to spare. Thank you all again for your amazing support!In lieu of adding a formal stretch goal, we’re sha... 065
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerThomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 3188102
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A vastly more straightforward puzzle than the taphonomic history of the real thing: 140
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I try to keep my taphonomy and my taprooms separate, for hygiene and etiquette. 010
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerAnthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My favorite paleontology-specific spellcheck change was for "taphonomy," for which MS Word suggested "taproom." Which although not correct, it is admittedly paleontology adjacent. (cc: @uglyfossils.bsky.social) 2232
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That's wild. Almost all of my recent reviews have involved a box to click pinky swearing I didn't use LLMs. I am honestly interested in a breakdown by field on which journals are leaning which way. 100
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wild! We had no idea it would get this positive of a response. 000
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We've almost reached our next stretch goal! To celebrate, here's a quick post highlighting the science of dinosaur colors experiment.com/u/zT7LAexperiment.comHow to color your dinosaurAn i... 072
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 12/09/2026For #FossilFriday, @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @boydpaleo.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social, and I have yet another stretch goal to share:experiment.comStretch Goal #3: Into the JurassicOnce again, you have all blown us away with your amazing support of this project. And once again, we find ourselves needing to give you another set of ... 2129
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerSociety of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology stands with the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP) staff, and preservation of the ANSP Museum. SVP urges our member community and anyone who enjoys and supports the natural sciences to speak up on behalf of the ANSP and their staff! #SaveTheAcademy 06034
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I absolutely love the little croc scavenger just going for it. 050
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerJoschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026They have a fundraiser currently going, which I want to use to fund research into the microstructure and even coloration of Edmontosaurus skin! You can donate here: experiment.com/projects/exp... 14910
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerJoschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🧵 And so ends our #paleostream on the the past and future research surrounding Dakota, the Edmontosaurus mummy! We talked with @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @uglyfossils.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social and @boydpaleo.bsky.social about their upcoming work! 311936
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026STRETCH GOAL ANNOUNCEMENT! THESCELOSAURUS JOINS DAKOTA ON OUR COLOR STUDY! 16312
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026REMINDER we are live streaming with @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social about our fundraiser at 3pm EDT on twitch. We will be announcing a second dinosaur to add to our research 17023
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026You wouldn't be able to trust my results. 000
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Me, looped out of my mind, finally making sense of @boydpaleo.bsky.social's ever-growing dinosaur mummy geochem dataset: 040
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026(Pers. comm.) Communication with whom? The grand super-consciousness of the celestial spheres, obviously. 110
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ha, I'm matching you for typos, but I can't even blame autocorrect. Just the off brand DayQuil. 110
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I mean, statistically speaking, it's not like my chances for getting this federal grant proposal funded could get any worse, so... 110
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I am suddenly empathizing with the 17th's century naturalists whose papers included nonsense like, "This revelation came to my in a vision brought on by the laudanum." 230
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm currently sick and pathetic, so I don't want to leave my bed, but I'm not so sick that I'm not also bored out of my mind while being stuck in said sickbed. You know what that means? Time to work on some scientific papers under the influence of various cold meds. What could possibly go wrong? 450
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'll have to carve out some time to visit her. 030
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Greedy. Put a pin in that in case we hit this goal too. 010
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What's better than one dinosaur mummy? Two dinosaur mummies, of course. @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @boydpaleo.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social, and I have added new stretch goals to our research fundraiser here: experiment.com/u/ajApwexperiment.comStretch Goal 2: A Second Mystery Dinosaur!For Science! 185
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 04/09/2026experiment.com/projects/exp...experiment.comExploring color and cellular preservation in a duck-billed dinosaur "mummy"Recent advancements in dinosaur skin research have shown that cellular detail and color patterning can be preserved. Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and histological thin sections, we propose... 020
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our fundraiser on exploring Dakota the dino mummy for color was funded!!! In a day!!! OMG. so with that, we are announcing stretch goals so we can sample more areas of Dakotas body 😁 35819
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Y'all. Y'ALL. It hasn't even been 24 hours. We haven't even done our Discord Q&A yet. Just, what? 😭 My heart is full. 000
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerEric Ekdale @eekdale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So happy to see Ernie Lundelius is still active! Hearing that he published a paper he started 70 years ago should give us all hope for the projects we put on our shelves to gather dust. I learned so much from Ernie during my time at Texas and he's still an inspiration. youtu.be/93T7xyqRMJk?...youtu.beErnie's Last PaperYouTube video by The University of Texas at Austin 072
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@tessasaurus.bsky.social, @boydpaleo.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social, and I are running a fundraiser for some new dinosaur mummy research. We've just posted our first lab note, and the plan is to share more as the month goes along. You can check out the project here: experiment.com/u/Db63Fwexperiment.comMeet Dakota!First of all, we are all blown away at the immediate response our project has received. You all surprised us with your generous donations, but trust that 02413
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am excited to announce that I am collaborating with the NDGS to investigate Dakota the dino mummy for color patterning and cellular preservation! but we need your help to continue this research🫵. Check the link in replies 🦕🔬 317381
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You know it's going to be a great work week when you try to log into your university's classroom portal and are met with an alert that Canvas is a malicious site which is attempting to steal your data. Which yes, sure, I'll believe that. But I really need to send a message to my students.static.klipy.comZach Grenier: Oh God, I Love TechnologyAlt: Zach Grenier saying "Oh God, I Love Technology" 031
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I mean, I was more creeped out at the algorithm actually hitting a target for once, partnered up with laughing about T&F thinking advertising in front of my trash Star Wars theorycrafting videos is a good idea. 110
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am usually amused by whatever ads the algo decides to kick my way on YouTube. So many of them are wildly off target. And then there's getting jumpscared by @sabercatwoman.bsky.social talking about @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social having Taylor & Francis host the society's journal. 130
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerCary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Did you know that we had nicknamed a special 🦕in honor of Dolly Parton? "Dolly" is the first dino with a respiratory infection. And "Dolly" is also a new genus. Teaser image: I often use pieces of art as human scale bars, but I could think of nothing more fitting than Dolly with "Dolly." 112748
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And a student's poster on a new frog and a colleague's talk on dinosaur skin. Yay! 020
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Apparently today's the day we all get our SVP fates revealed. So far I have a talk on some very cool bite marks (getting back to my research roots) and a poster on demographics and experiences of public fossil dig participants. 190
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026there's not a lot of super rich people who really earned their wealth, and very few who used it to truly make the world better. as much as i love her music, it's that part that i've always loved the most about Dolly Parton 243971
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.” - Ms Dolly Parton 🌹💔 0295
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hello paleopeeps! The @ndgspaleo.bsky.social crew and I will be having a Q&A with @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social of Paleostream about our upcoming fundraiser! Stay tune for more details 👀🦕 14018
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It took a minute to see this project through to the end, but I am really excited that my student Miles Mayhall's geologic time scale art made it up for our first day of class: 051
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It lights up, and they wired it through the arm so the scales glow too. It was pretty extra. 130
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It's a major award! I keep telling @boydpaleo.bsky.social he should mass produce these to fund @ndgspaleo.bsky.social, but apparently @mhouseholder.bsky.social has to hand paint each one. So... maybe not? 1152
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This research trip's "mommy guilt" present feels a little weirdly self-agrandizing. 020
Reposted by Stephanie DrumhellerAnthony The Fish Necromancer @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Happy #FossilFriday from the special surprise found inside the last stupid Xiphactinus that i discovered this spring: a complete Micropycnodon! This poor little guy was eaten right before the Xiphactinus (nicknamed Brown Sugar) died, and is forever trapped in fish rib jail. 🧪🐟 614237
Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I collected too much data and had to buy a backup notebook in the NHMU giftshop. In conclusion, Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry has too many interesting bone surface modifications. 1102