AshPoust
Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel.
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln
Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses.
-What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you
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- Reposted by AshPoustIn the frontspiece of a book, sadly I forget which: Interviewer: Who is your favourite contemporary author? Author: Shakespeare Interviewer: No; contemporary author Author: Shakespeare, always Shakespeare
- Reposted by AshPoustA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- All other dinosaurs are streets behind. T. rex has been cool cool cool since at least 2005 when this graphic was published. #sixseasonsandamovie #community 🦕
- Reposted by AshPoust2016 ➡️ 2026 Museum displays aren’t something we usually think about, but the supports beneath fossils and artifacts are essential. 10 years ago, this mount was created for this ~5400 yr old steppe bison skull by Restoration and Reproduction Specialist, Gisli. Read on to learn how he created it 👇
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- Reposted by AshPoustNew vegaviids Vegavis geitononesos and Vegavis notopothousa (the latter based on the skull described last year): www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18... 🪶🧪 (📷Irazoqui et al.)
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- Reposted by AshPoustImagine driving down the Miracle Mile in 1967 and seeing this in your rearview mirror... Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
- On top of this being egregious lies, I actually think there *are* landscapes that need protection on aesthetic grounds - and this is actually going to make that harder in the long run.
- BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
- Ooh, I like these. They look like real animals, while still being the weirdos they were.
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- Reposted by AshPoustJust finished updating my review on the evolution and fossil record of the eared seals (Otariidae) given the new paper that came out on the early Pleistocene Otaria josefinae from Peru 😅 #blog #paleo #paleontology 🦖🐬🧪 Read it here:
- New paper: New species of sea lion, Otaria josefinae, from the early Pleistocene Pongo Fm. of Peru (1.9-1.4 myo) - extinct ancestor(?) or sister species of the South American sea lion. 🐬🦖🧪Read the paper here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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- A classic. Our cast of one of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex know, UCMP 118742. As large as this is, it's merely the maxilla. The teeth are 15 cm (6 in) long, and that's just the exposed part! #FossilFriday 🧪🦕 @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
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- Reposted by AshPoustNew paper out today! "Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama" 🔓https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0419 We used fossil fish otoliths to reconstruct community structure and energetics over millennia.
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- Reposted by AshPoustListen y'all, I love squirrels so much and I dragged our entire staff into this #SquirrelAppreciationDay project so I have way too many pictures and thoughts for one post. 🧵incoming. 🏛️🧪
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- Reposted by AshPoustCharley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
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- Reposted by AshPoustCollaborate 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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- Reposted by AshPoustNot a big baby! My commentary in @science.org about the latest Nanotyrannus research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by AshPoustThis morning I saw a post w/photos of Smithsonian paleontologist Charles Gilmore, and it dislodged a thought from my brain: I *still* use the dude's work, 80 years after his last paper. Why? Because he published copious data - measurements, solid morphological descriptions, great photos. <thread>
- Reposted by AshPoustResult from the Agate Fossil Beds #paleostream! This early Miocene lagerstätte from Nebraska (USA) is a fantastic window into our understanding of the transition from forest communities to grassland biomes...
- Reposted by AshPoustIOB Resolving #evolutionary relationships- IOB’s Selina-Viktor Robson details more about their co-authored work iobopen.com/2026/01/12/r... & read the paper doi.org/10.1093/iob/... by Robson, @jmtheodor.bsky.social et al #science #fossils #paleobiology #morphology #taxa, #ontogeny.
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- Reposted by AshPoust"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!
- Reposted by AshPoustA few new papers out recently that I'm excited to share with you! First: How well could stem reptiles hear? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by AshPoustSo reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
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- Reposted by AshPoustOur manuscript is now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We tested hypotheses that Cenozoic climatic change influenced the evolution of the cranial, appendicular, & axial skeleton in carnivorans. @tsengzj.bsky.social @hlusko.bsky.social 🧵 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
