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Evolutionary bioanthropologist and HoD EEB @ UMN | 💀🦷🦍🐒 🇰🇪 | 1 partner 2 kids 🦮🐕🦺 🚲🚲🚲 the rest changes without notice | in my free time <pause for laughter> mcnultylab.org
The grand opening of the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization Museum was a powerful and exciting community event! The museum features the latest science but also highlights local contributions, artwork and Kenyan authors. #scienceoutreach #scienceeducation #communityengagement #paleontology
Tomorrow starts a new chapter in Rusinga paleontology, as we officially open the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization's Museum and Education Centre! #scienceoutreach #Rusinga #paleontology #Paleoanthropology
Today we break ground on the new St. Patrick Clinic building, re-establishing a critical community health center in Sienga!
It appears that Tom and I are about to engage in some kind of collections-based competition. I can assure that Tom would win, hands down!
Back at one of my favorite places, hanging out with some of my favorite people (and fossils)!
Watching ENG vs DRC from Nairobi wearing my @mnufc.com gear. What a #WorldCup2026!
Spent an amazing day with the @msp-lter.bsky.social team learning about their long-term research on keeping urban floras, faunas, and ecosystems thriving. Modernization doesn't have to mean sacrificing healthy green space. This dynamic team is discovering how to keep balance in city environments.
If I don't return, don't come looking. I'm going Gently Mad! 📖 📘 📚 [2 Summer Pl, Edinburgh] #books #reading #bookstores #usedbooks #fantasy #sciencefiction #firsteditions
I enjoy donning my regalia for commencement, but next year I'm dressing as an Imperial Advisor. #starwars
I have reluctantly come to the very difficult conclusion that my shirt is very dark blue rather than black. #agingungracefully
Somebody left me a present at the entrance to the shed. Obviously one of the denizens that lives underneath the shed is now in fluffy bunny afterlife, but I'm curious how this got displayed so nicely for me to find.
Perhaps there is no clearer indication of how bad the academic job market is than the fact that my 23-year career as a scholar and researcher, plus my current position as department head, make me a top applicant for adjunct positions. #AcademicSky #EduSky #AcademicJobs
So excited I can now source free-range celery at my local supermarket! 🤣
No way to find my peeps in this crowd, so I'm standing next to an elderly couple with walkers, a Somali woman, a guy in camo with a beard down to his belly, a Danish immigrant, and what seems to be the alto section of a Lutheran choir. WE ARE MINNESOTA! #NoKings
Hey #AABA2026, do you think paleoanthropology needs to do more to support local education and outreach in the places we work? Help the NMK build an Interpretation Centre at Fort Ternan Prehistory Site to inspire the next generation of Kenyan paleoanthropologists! Support the Fort!
Custom-made display tables finally arrived at the Rusinga Island Presitory museum!
First home game for @mnufc.com and just before the game this arose from the stands!
We hired a local artist to paint a mural of what the Early Miocene on Rusinga Island may have looked like. Here he is at work! This will be just inside of the entrance at the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization's Interpretive Centre!
Having a "mango meeting" with some of my favorite people, including @leakeyfoundation.org grantees John Kingston, Laura MacLatchy, @susycote.bsky.social('s hand), and Fredrick Manthi, plus SMU researcher Alisa Winkler. Fun to catch up with everyone and strategize about Kenyan student training.
So pleased to introduce the newly minted Dr. Abbey Hall! Abbey's research on Early Miocene mammal communities is a tremendous body of work that will be yielding insights far beyond her dissertation. Congratulations! 🎊 👏🏼 💐
Cost in gas: $25.13 Round trip drive: 3 hours Honors ceremony: 25 minutes Having a quiet meal with your college-age daughter: priceless.
You: where did you develop such wonky taste in music? Me: 🤷♂️ no idea how that came about. Also me: <sorting through cassette tapes to find...