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diapophysis.bsky.social

Paleontologist at the University of Michigan interested in sauropod dinosaur evolution, vertebrate paleontology of the Indian Subcontinent, and fossil trackways. Former Fulbright Fellow at Universidad del Norte. 🇨🇴+🇺🇸 cafe con leche

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Cheered by this tiny ducky on the plinth holding the pegmatite-invaded granite outside the North University Building (home to EES). Kudos to whoever placed it there and to all who left it!

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Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

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More on the early 20th c. lantern slides found by UMMP Collection Managers Jen Bauer & Adam Rountrey... Some slides document field sites, like the image below titled "Excavating the phytosaur plates | Cerita d. l. Cruz / 31"].

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There are many reasons to say WTF??!!! to 2025 … the Winter Trail Fest is a a great one. Beautiful to run through snowy Michigan woods.

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Why doesn't Detroit have a natural history museum? open.substack.com/pub/littlede... by @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social

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I've been thinking about the Sandwalk at Down House, which Darwin used daily. Walking can create a state-of-mind in which brain regions coordinating rules and concepts are turned down, while motor and sensory controls are turned up—allowing ideas and impressions to commingle in unexpected ways.

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UMMP polar plunge into the Huron River!! Bracing, exhilarating, and yes invigorating!

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Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Rio de Janeiro - Septiembre 2026 🦥🦕🐧🦎🐢🐟 Ya están abiertas las inscripciones! 🏖️ 🇧🇷 clpv2026.com.br

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UMMP Collection Managers Jen Bauer & Adam Rountrey found boxes of early 20th c. lantern slides. Some seem to have been for teaching, others from publications, and still others documenting field sites. The slide below has some very clean images of Trilophosaurus buettneri from the 1928 publication.

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Year of the Snake 🐍

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me, reading all these posts about “Columbia”

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MLK on Gandhi and India, where he visited "as a pilgrim" in 1959. youtu.be/B3Ife3CTBnQ?...

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Great pic! And thanks to this legend for all the translations of Chinese literature he did for the rest of us. Freely available at the Polyglot Paleontologist: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/pal...

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This just in.

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A great opportunity--give a talk for the Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology! An engaged and welcoming group with loads of paleontological expertise ⬇️

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Beautiful photo from the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria

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New Contribution from recent UMMP PhDs James, Ethan, and Rodrigo! New Mississippian vertebrates from the Blue Ridge Esker near Jackson, Michigan. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @james-v-andrews.bsky.social

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Doris Salcedo www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Having a bad day? Well, at least it's not permanent, like this fossilized rhino footprint in what is probably its own dung. 🙃 From this paper: Antunes, M.T., Balbino, A.C. & Ginsburg, L. 2006. Miocene Mammalian footprints in coprolites from Lisbon, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie, 92: 13–30.

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‪Ayer falleció la profesora María Páramo Fonseca, quien dejó un gran legado en la Paleontología colombiana. Deja un gran legado en sus estudiantes y publicaciones científicas.🧪 #PaleoBs #PaleoSky #Paleontology.

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Books of 2024 "An End to Suffering" Pankaj Mishra "Johnstown Flood" David McCullough "Until August" Gabriel García Márquez "Perder es Cuestion de Método" Santiago Gamboa "Study in Scarlet" Arthur Conan Doyle "True Gretch" Gretchen Whitmer "Incognegro" Mat Johnson "El Eternauta" Solano López & Pol