Anthony (Tony) J. Martin
Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft-beer imbibing, childless cat dude, 🚫AI. 🧪🐾🦖🦕🪨⚒️🌍📚✍️ 🖖 https://ajmartinauthor.com
- In my 'Environmental Geology' class today, we'll finish our coverage of glaciers, starting with erosional features (arêtes! spurs! horns! cirques! cols! roche moutonées!) & depositional features (till! moraines! drumlins! eskers!), lakes (tarns! finger! kettle!), then effects of climate change. 🧪🪨🧊🗻
- I can't believe I'm saying this, but GRIZZLED comes out in <30 days! I keep waiting for an asteroid to strike! It's felt like it would never happen for so long, I don't know what to do now that I'm here! It's going to be exclamation points from here on out, friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🧪
- 🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪 ❤️🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
- Big congrats on the imminent (just 1-lunar-cycle) release of your new book, Jason! Best wishes for its success & delighting readers with your animal-inspired tales. 📚
- The near demise of Guinea worm disease in 2025 (only 10 cases worldwide) just a little more than a year after Jimmy Carter's passing seems like justice. He often said he planned to outlive this disease, & for all practical purposes, he did it. Thank you for all you did for others, Mr. President.
- Turning 34 today! If you'd like to help me celebrate, I'd be thrilled if you'd leave a compliment, a memory, or tell me about any work of mine (journalistic or fictional) that you've really liked or that meant something to you ❤️
- Happy Birthday, Asher! I think my favorite memory of you is when you came to one of my talks at Fernbank Museum in Atlanta GA & we had a nice chat afterwards. I'm recalling you were still in high school then, but please correct that if I'm misremembering. Very happy for your writing success since!
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View full threadOh and by the way, got Dinosaurs Without Bones mentioned with your TLQ blurb. Sorry again for that oversight when it was first up.
- Wow Riley, thanks so much for adding 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' to my blurb for your next (eagerly anticipated) book! I'm likewise pleased to be blurbing between authors @annaleen.bsky.social & @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, whose books I also enjoy reading. 📚✍️
- The world is on fire so please enjoy these nice middle #jurassic trace #fossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social one for you! #geology #paleontology #dinosaur
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- Oh, I thought those rocks & their trace fossils looked vaguely familiar! I was there & elsewhere along the Yorkshire coast on a 4-day field trip organized by U. of Manchester & others for the 1999 International Ichnofabric Workshop. I really need to go back someday. Thanks again for sharing!
- Thanks for the reminder to read Jericho Brown's stunning poetry. I'm incredibly lucky to share the same campus with him & often mention him & his works to students so they know about him, too.
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- Double damn. I hate learning about the destruction of any fossils, but to lose trace fossils like these with evidence of extraordinary behaviors? Very disappointing.
- Thanks so much for posting this mix of very nice Jurassic invertebrate & vertebrate trace fossils! The burrows in the third photo I think are tops of U-shaped burrows, which I always enjoy seeing. Where are these from?
- in my 'Environmental Geology' class this a.m., we'll talk about glaciation and glaciers, including the effects of glaciations & glaciers of the pre-human past, & geological features of formerly glaciated landscapes. 🧪🪨⚒️🧊❄️🏔️
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- I love that sense of geological memory in the landscape! Toward the start of today's class, I mentioned how we don't see any direct geological evidence of the Pleistocene glaciations here in Georgia, but that glacial cycles caused huge back-and-forth shifts in terrestrial ecosystems.
