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Brandon Peecook

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Paleontologist 🦴 / Curator 🏛 Idaho Museum of Natural History / Associate Prof 👨🏻‍🏫 Biological Sciences Idaho State University 🐅 Biodiversity Superfan 🌍🦚🦉🦩🦖🦕🐊🐢🐍🐋🦬🦒🦇🦫🦣🐠🐡🦈🐝🐞🦗🦞🕷🪱🦑🐌🪸🍄🌲🌴🌾🌻

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers is looking for a vertebrate paleontologist: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Assistant Professor in Paleontological Vertebrate Evolution - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 4d

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends!
🦬🐪🦥 @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @imnh208.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

Group selfie on an Idaho beach: wide sandy expanse and blue skies. Sloth vertebra in the foreground!

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 6d

If I squint in yellow and purple I can see a @paleo-hank.bsky.social figure

Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.

A skeletonized American alligator decomposing in a wood framed box

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Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 6d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 7d

Please have and encourage patience with US federal offices and our federal colleagues in the coming days. With a US federal government shutdown now in effect, progress on permit requests from federal agencies will very likely be delayed.

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Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social · 11d

(Part 1) This past weekend, Museum of the Rockies staff led the first ever Browning High School Egg Mountain Eggspedition program at the Beatrice R. Taylor Paleontology Research Area near Choteau, Montana. With excitement and curiosity, students began an unforgettable journey.

A collage of photos showing Browning High School students participating in a paleontology field program at Egg Mountain. The students and staff are outdoors in a rocky, hilly landscape, digging and examining fossils with tools and buckets, listening to instruction, and posing for group photos.

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 19d

With a pristine skull, tiny phalanges, gastroliths, & an articulated tail, Zavacephale is the oldest & most complete pachycephalosaur ever found #fossilfriday I had the pleasure of photographing it last week, what a beauty! Congrats to the authors, read about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 20d

The true inside scoop is that I named that Session "NOT Dinosaurs!!1!" originally and I almost added a pelycosaur talk.

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 20d

Little miscommunication there with replacing a placeholder: Tech Session VI is "Mesozoic Seas & Skies" in the forthcoming Program 🌊 ⛅

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 20d

Birmingham is built on the Triassic and our main logo for this year's conference features a Triassic reptile, a rhynchosaur, first described by Richard Owen in 1842 from Shropshire, just west of Birmingham.

We will be running two Triassic field trips this year, although both are now sold out

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 20d

Check out the provisional programme for #SVP2025 #2025SVP - the Triassic symposium was so popular they are running it for the entire day!

vertpaleo.org/wp-content/u...

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 21d

I don't disagree with others' gorgon ideas, but I think a dinocephalian

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Chris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 25d

It lives!!! 🦣🦣🦣🧪

Repeated climate-driven dispersal and speciation in peripheral populations of Pleistocene mastodons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Repeated climate-driven dispersal and speciation in peripheral populations of Pleistocene mastodons

Coastal mastodon mitochondrial genomes contextualize species distributions and dispersal patterns near southern glacial limits.

www.science.org

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 25d

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 26d

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 26d

happy #fossilfriday! this is mobaceras, a biarmosuchian therapsid from the middle permian of zambia. like other burnetiamorphs, mobaceras is characterised by the prominent bosses on its skull, which may have been covered by skin similar to giraffe ossicones
(art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social)

a left-facing portrait of mobaceras in golden hour lighting; the animal has a very prominent nasal boss, as well as anterior and posterior supraorbital bosses

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 26d

What a phone catalog it must be. #FossilFriday

Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 26d

A thread of every Edmontosaurus skeleton on my phone, just because #FossilFriday

Relief mount of Edmontosaurus on all fours against a beige wall

This one is a relief mount running on two legs. Various Cretaceous dinosaur skulls on display in front

Bipedal, tail-dragging, free-standing mount

Quadrupedal mount in subtle walking pose, on a sandy base

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 26d

Not the first time.
Jeff will be missed, and it was always a treat to chat with him.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 27d

Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 29d

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor.
Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

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Cy Marchant @slvrhwk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus ('spiky collar'), certainly one of the most unusual dinosaurs known. Found in the mid-Jurassic El Mers Group of Morocco, it is also the oldest definitive ankylosaur.

Reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus afer, an armored ankylosaur dinosaur, showing known material on a black silhouette. The holotype specimen (an isolated partial rib) is shown in yellow, with a more complete referred specimen in white. Unknown material is indicated in grey, inferred from surrounding elements and related taxa. The arrangement of many of the osteoderms is speculative. Scale bar=1m.

Graphic illustrating the reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus afer, an armored ankylosaur dinosaur. The smaller two skeletals at the top show known material on a black silhouette; the first shows only the internal bones in light blue, while the second shows only the osteoderms in yellow. Unknown material is indicated in grey, inferred from surrounding elements and related taxa. The arrangement of many of the osteoderms is speculative. The larger bottom diagram shows a hypothetical full skeleton, with a human (~1.8m) for scale. Scale bars=1m.

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GDLeahy @xrciseguy.bsky.social · Sep 5

#FossilFriday: the giant dicynodont Lisowicia from the Upper Triassic of Poland. Lisowicia is the largest known dicynodont (about the size of an elephant.) Lisowicia is also one of the last known dicynodonts. On display at the Museum of Evolution, Warsaw.

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Dr. Karly E. Cohen @karlycohen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Article link here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Xavier Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s finally out!

Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

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