Julia McHugh
@drjmchugh.bsky.social
Vertebrate Paleontologist at the Museums of Western Colorado. Nature photographer and owner of Earthly Exposures. Foster of Kittens. All opinions are my own.
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Julia McHugh
@drjmchugh.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I am a proud, unapologetically opinionated #WomanInScience!
I am Dr. Julia McHugh, a vertebrate paleontologist studying Jurassic faunas, taphonomy, & evolution. I work the spectrum from the field to college classrooms, museum exhibits, informal education, & research.
I am Dr. Julia McHugh, a vertebrate paleontologist studying Jurassic faunas, taphonomy, & evolution. I work the spectrum from the field to college classrooms, museum exhibits, informal education, & research.
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Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
This is my first full weekend in a month. Feels weird.
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is my first full weekend in a month. Feels weird.
My poor kitty, Kona, has earned herself a trip to the vet with scabs like these.
She's had them a few weeks and even though I've cut out the possible allergen... they persist. Time for an expert analysis.
She's had them a few weeks and even though I've cut out the possible allergen... they persist. Time for an expert analysis.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My poor kitty, Kona, has earned herself a trip to the vet with scabs like these.
She's had them a few weeks and even though I've cut out the possible allergen... they persist. Time for an expert analysis.
She's had them a few weeks and even though I've cut out the possible allergen... they persist. Time for an expert analysis.
An amazing study you NEED to read!!
Alas, this article on our reptile decomposition research does not come in a scratch-and-sniff format. However, if you'd like to see what my students, colleagues, and I have been up to with our decomposing lizards and crocodylians, here's your chance. 🧪
CSI: Cretaceous. A reptile body farm is shedding light on how dinosaurs died.
Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
An amazing study you NEED to read!!
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A. Romilio et al. (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
www.mdpi.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A. Romilio et al. (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
Portland (PDX) is a full-on dumpster fire for connecting intl-domestic flights. Not only are there only 2 CBP agents working customs, but the entire place is torn up for renos. Bus to the terminal, but drop off at arrivals pick up, so have to go BACK through TSA.
Their ops team should be fired.
Their ops team should be fired.
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Portland (PDX) is a full-on dumpster fire for connecting intl-domestic flights. Not only are there only 2 CBP agents working customs, but the entire place is torn up for renos. Bus to the terminal, but drop off at arrivals pick up, so have to go BACK through TSA.
Their ops team should be fired.
Their ops team should be fired.
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To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian
Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian
Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian
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Thanks so much to all the #2025SVP host committee members & student volunteers & huge thanks to SVP & the community for joining us in Birmingham! We’re super happy with how it turned out. Time now to run a three-day field trip!
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Thanks so much to all the #2025SVP host committee members & student volunteers & huge thanks to SVP & the community for joining us in Birmingham! We’re super happy with how it turned out. Time now to run a three-day field trip!
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As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
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Surprising find near the trap: a wooden oar with incised decoration that had been brought up the 4500-ft-tall mountain. (Pic of it and a cute axe-shaped brooch in link.)🏺🧪
Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
The well-preserved reindeer trap may be unique in Europe.
www.livescience.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Surprising find near the trap: a wooden oar with incised decoration that had been brought up the 4500-ft-tall mountain. (Pic of it and a cute axe-shaped brooch in link.)🏺🧪
She sees dead things.
@uglyfossils.bsky.social totally killed it with her talk at #2025SVP today on the decomposition of reptiles and implications for Dinosaur Mummy formation.
If you missed it, be sure to find her today... as it is the last day of the conference.
@uglyfossils.bsky.social totally killed it with her talk at #2025SVP today on the decomposition of reptiles and implications for Dinosaur Mummy formation.
If you missed it, be sure to find her today... as it is the last day of the conference.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
She sees dead things.
@uglyfossils.bsky.social totally killed it with her talk at #2025SVP today on the decomposition of reptiles and implications for Dinosaur Mummy formation.
If you missed it, be sure to find her today... as it is the last day of the conference.
@uglyfossils.bsky.social totally killed it with her talk at #2025SVP today on the decomposition of reptiles and implications for Dinosaur Mummy formation.
If you missed it, be sure to find her today... as it is the last day of the conference.
The posters are hung at the conference with care, in hopes that paleontologists soon would be there.
Last Poster Session starts this afternoon! Come find me and @paleorob.bsky.social side by side for all the weird and mysterious fossil goodness. #2025SVP
Last Poster Session starts this afternoon! Come find me and @paleorob.bsky.social side by side for all the weird and mysterious fossil goodness. #2025SVP
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The posters are hung at the conference with care, in hopes that paleontologists soon would be there.
Last Poster Session starts this afternoon! Come find me and @paleorob.bsky.social side by side for all the weird and mysterious fossil goodness. #2025SVP
Last Poster Session starts this afternoon! Come find me and @paleorob.bsky.social side by side for all the weird and mysterious fossil goodness. #2025SVP
Airports are boring.
Bring a book!
Bring a book!
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Airports are boring.
Bring a book!
Bring a book!
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US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown reut.rs/43l1lIn
US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown
Airlines canceled more than 2,700 U.S. flights and delayed more than 10,000 on Sunday, the most disruptions on a single day since the U.S. government shutdown began.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown reut.rs/43l1lIn
How we do a dessert table at the Dinosaur Journey Museum!
(With help from Flavors Grill!)
(With help from Flavors Grill!)
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
How we do a dessert table at the Dinosaur Journey Museum!
(With help from Flavors Grill!)
(With help from Flavors Grill!)
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says reut.rs/4oT9ifZ
Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the waters off the coast of the Mexican state of Baja California on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says reut.rs/4oT9ifZ
Fresh from Spoonflower in the nick of time... our #2025SVP poster!
Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
@scleroticrings.bsky.social
Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
@scleroticrings.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fresh from Spoonflower in the nick of time... our #2025SVP poster!
Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
@scleroticrings.bsky.social
Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
@scleroticrings.bsky.social
The Princess of Thacia is a beautiful conclusion to all the War's Wake arcs...
Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character.
On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble:
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Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character.
On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble:
amazon.com/dp/B0F3GB8PS4
barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thacia-julia-mchugh/1148309786
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The Princess of Thacia is a beautiful conclusion to all the War's Wake arcs...
Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character.
On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble:
amazon.com/dp/B0F3GB8PS4
barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thacia-julia-mchugh/1148309786
Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character.
On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble:
amazon.com/dp/B0F3GB8PS4
barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thacia-julia-mchugh/1148309786
Happy Halloween Everyone!
a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
ALT: a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Happy Halloween Everyone!
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I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.
