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Danielle Peltier

@paleodanny.bsky.social

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Paleontologist & Paleoanthropologist researching tectonic impact on ecology and human evolution 💀 Geoscience PhD candidate @ IU ⛏️ Geology lecturer @ USI 🪨 GSA Sci-Comm Fellow 📣 BS @ NMSU 🦴 first-gen, she/her

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Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Jun 23

It's a pretty good issue all together!

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · May 8

Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

www.science.org

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Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nat geo with holographic Taung child cover?? Best birthday present ever 😍

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Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences @iuearth.bsky.social · Apr 8

A year ago today, we were treated to a total solar eclipse here in Bloomington. Photos from our big day, from graduate student @paleodanny.bsky.social (1), faculty member @codykirkp.bsky.social (2,3), and an instrumented tower set up by the Indiana Geological and Water Survey (4).

Portrait-mode photograph of the sky during a total solar eclipse. A few street and building lights on at the bottom, otherwise the horizon is deep orange and fades to black at the top. Photographer: Danielle Peltier.

Photo of the IU Geological Sciences street sign in front of a total solar eclipse sky. The eclipsed sun is in between a couple of tree branches at the top. Photo by Cody Kirkpatrick.

Photo of a solar eclipse sky from a remote camera behind the Indiana Geological and Water Survey Building. Buildings are lit up at the bottom, and the fisheye lens shows the eclipsed sun at the top. Photo courtesy IGWS.

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Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Mar 20

😂 that fits too well!

Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Mar 19

Close second is Lucy falling out of the tree

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Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Mar 9

Need a new geoscience podcast? Check out my interview with the host of @earthontherocks.bsky.social to learn more and find an episode!
speakingofgeoscience.org/2025/03/03/e...

Earth on the Rocks: Hear the Passion Behind the Research

What is geoscience? With only two states requiring an earth or environmental science course to graduate high school, most people either don’t know or think it’s just about rocks. “How can we, as a …

speakingofgeoscience.org

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Danielle Peltier @paleodanny.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

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