Andy Farke
Paleontologist, educator, museum person, open science person, homebrewer, spouse, parent. Homebrewing blog at http://andybrews.com
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- Gorgeous wildflowers spotted on my short hike this afternoon! Blue dicks, a native plant also sometimes called "wild hyacinth"
- I needed a distraction, so drafted a new label/logo for my Munich dunkle recipe. Yes, it includes a bad paleontological pun. Recipe and tasting notes at my blog: andybrews.com/2026/02/01/d...
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- It's #TinyToothTuesday! One of the students found this little partial mammal tooth in matrix from the "Mesaverde" Formation of Wyoming. It is the 4th for this particular locality! Fossils collected under permit from #BLMPaleo and accessioned at @alfpaleo.bsky.social 🧪🦷
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- Ad astra per aspera. #NASADayofRemembrance
- A legitimately amazing sunrise this morning.
- A treasured piece of artwork in our household (and one of our favorite birds)! (and Valeria does amazing illustration work on a variety of subjects from birds to fossils; a great collaborator for any project you might have!)
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- Hey western paleontology folks! WAVP is coming up - abstracts due end of day on Monday, registration ending in a few weeks. Conference is February 13-15 (main presentation / poster day is Saturday, February 14). Check it out at wavp.us
- For those who were at SDSM&T Geology - Professor Emeritus Dr. Perry Rahn passed away yesterday. www.kirkfuneralhome.com/obituary/per...
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- Not a big baby! My commentary in @science.org about the latest Nanotyrannus research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- The whole family woke up to catch the re-entry in the SoCal skies...what an amazing sight! 10/10, would do again, even as a non-night-owl. The 8 year old on the event: "That's only the *second* time I've seen plasma in the atmosphere!"
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- "Prolonged growth and extended subadult development in the Tyrannosaurus rex species complex revealed by expanded histological sampling and statistical modeling" - new in @peerj.bsky.social, by @histo-holly.bsky.social et al.
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- This 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>
- Now, drawings in his work (and other works of the time) are notoriously unreliable as primary data, and discussions/interpretations of significance are often dated, but the raw morphological data - they *still* stand quite well.
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- The Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology conference is coming up on February 14, hosted at the Alf Museum in Claremont, California. Abstract deadline is January 19. Lots of details at the updated conference website - www.wavp.us
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- This is a really great paper, with a big boost from new fossils for Ajkaceratops. European ceratopsians are weird--and a ceratopsian identity is the hypothesis best supported by the evidence. Some thoughts / notes...
- Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Łukasz Czepiński & Daniel Madzia recently published a paper (academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...) primarily using the originally described material or similar elements; they concluded it was ornithischian, but not much confidence beyond that.
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- Hey paleontologists! The Alf Museum is hosting WAVP (Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology) next month. (should have abstract submission details pretty quick). Details here: www.wavp.us
