And no relief from the triple digit heat in sight 🔥🥵

Exactly four years ago today, I was doing fieldwork on Anticosti Island celebrating my first official day on the job as joint Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at The University of Oklahoma!

Wrapping up another spectacular field season exploring the early Paleozoic of Anticosti Island. This is the 7th field season that Melanie Hopkins, Lena Cole, & I have been working together. Very proud of this year's team comprised of folks from the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & the AMNH! 🧪⛏️

As we approach the final week of our 7th field season on Anticosti Island, we've overcome new challenges and setbacks this year. Nevertheless, we have also made many new discoveries & worked with an incredible team, including a remarkable group of students from @oupaleobiology.bsky.social & the AMNH

Happy anniversary to the final album by the Ramones, which features dinosaurs wearing sombreros and includes their incredible cover of Tom Waits' "I Don't Want to Grow Up"

How it feels when a paleontologist discovers a fossil ⛏️🦕🧪

Here's the Crinoid Crunch breakfast cereal that's definitely not recommended by any dentist or nutritionist!

Recently visited the @amnh.org and saw this cool exhibit featuring me and Melanie Hopkins doing fieldwork! Also, I think that's @nilese.bsky.social in the "Then and Now: the Evolution of Evolution" display

geologists when asked if they have summer plans

The absolute best figure caption in any textbook ever

Interesting reconstruction of the enigmatic Cambrian echinoderm Helicocystis, which is one of the oldest stalked echinoderms with radial symmetry. Fossils like Helicocystis are important because they help us understand how echinoderms evolved from bilateral to pentaradial body plans

When your heart belongs in NYC but you now live in Oklahoma and are an OKC Thunder fan

The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is celebrating our department's collections manager, Lyndsey Farrar! Many thanks for all the awesome work you do behind the scenes in the invertebrate paleontology collections and to the public! #FossilFriday

The discovery is remarkable is several ways. The evidence for tube feet given morphology & exceptional preservation stands alone. But just as remarkable: the measurable features of the soft-tissues match the predicted values of *what we think they should be* according to theory extremely well

Incredible window view of NYC from the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology at the AMNH

Great day for @oupaleobiology.bsky.social folks to visit the AMNH!

Went to the Yale Peabody Museum and found my friends (echinoderms and fish) hanging out together

A very bright and sunny day to visit the Yale Peabody Museum! 🦕

So incredibly pround of my graduate student @crowleyk.bsky.social for graduating with a MSc degree today! She also submitted her first 1st author publication for peer review last week. Way to go Kiera!

Incredible shout-out for the science of paleontology by the dean at the OU commencement ceremony! 🧪🦕⛏️

This tour is happening later this year and I'm so freakin' excited. Giddy even

Here's a throwback to when I was in grad school: a local Columbus newspaper featured a cartoon with a picture of Orton Hall (Ohio State) and what appears to be curator Dale Gnidovec as "Dr. Hans Morton: mildly irritated paleontologist". It says "to be continued" but I have no clue how it ended

No academic paper necessary. Here's an excerpt from one of my eBird checklists to prove my point

Me and my droid buddy R2-D2 went to an OKC Comets game to watch Mookie Betts

Sephiroth: "Jenova may have been a Calamity that fell from the sky but hey she was my mom"

Saw a juvenile Barred Owl and wow they look like an adorable fluffy muppet baby

Absolutely exhausting day but came home to a Painted Bunting in my backyard and now everything is better

I saw this sign in a wonderful wildlife refuge over the weekend and can't stop thinking about it. "This refuge is a living museum of natural history" 🧪

Excited about the new air abrasion and microscope setup for fossil prep in our Dept. of Invertebrate Paleontology laboratory at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History #FossilFriday

I could definitely imagine being friends with a Cotylorhynchus