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Megan Whitney

@megwhit.bsky.social

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Vertebrate paleontologist and paleohistologist | Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago

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Megan Whitney @megwhit.bsky.social · Aug 19

Important read by @thomsanger.bsky.social for anyone in science.

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Communicating Science with New Purpose

Abstract. The scientific enterprise of the United States is facing challenges on a scale that many living scientists have never encountered. After nearly a

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s a beaut! I commissioned @serpenillus.bsky.social for this incredible piece that has quite a purpose. The new SVP Memoir dropped while we were in Zambia 🇿🇲 on a field expedition alongside the government.
More soon, but for now enjoy. 😊

Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Aug 14

A scene of ca. 252 million years ago during the Late Permian in the Madumabisa Mudstone Formation in Zambia, Africa. You can see here various therapsids and a Pareisaur
#paleoart #art #permian

Scene of Late Triassic Africa showing various therapsids and a pareisaur in their environment

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Megan Whitney @megwhit.bsky.social · May 9

Graduation week here at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. This year’s graduate and undergraduate graduates from the Whitney Lab 🤩. This team: published, presented at national conferences, did fieldwork, worked in museum collections, and even made a lab instagram. They will be so missed and look out world!

Megan Whitney @megwhit.bsky.social · Mar 18

Such a fun group to chat with about the importance of paleohisto data accessibility!

MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · Mar 18

A huge thank you to Dr. @megwhit.bsky.social for being the first guest lecturer in our new MorphoBank Seminar Series! Her talk on Bone Histology 🦴🔬 and how MorphoBank supports research in this field was fantastic. We’re excited to showcase her data! #BoneHistology #Paleontology #MorphoBank

Megan Whitney (8 MorphoBank projects)
Project 3543: Histological and developmental insights into the herbivorous dentition of tapinocephalid therapsids
Project 3605: Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts
Project 3606: Odontoma in a 255-Million-Year-Old Mammalian Forebear
Project 3607: The first occurrence of Cynognathus crateronotus (Cynodontia: Cynognathia) in Tanzania and Zambia, with implications for the age and biostratigraphic correlation of Triassic strata in southern Pangea
Project 3650: Evidence of torpor in the tusks of Lystrosaurus from the Early Triassic of Antarctica
Project 3838: Convergent dental adaptations in the serrations of hypercarnivorous synapsids and dinosaurs
Project 4097: Dicynodont Tusk Histology
Project 4272: Fossil bone histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods

Megan Whitney @megwhit.bsky.social · Feb 8

@gondwannabe.bsky.social and I had a blast working with students from Loyola and the Idaho Museum of Natural History this week on developing our curation system of Lance Creek micro vertebrate fossils. Special thanks to the @burkemuseum.bsky.social for hosting us! #FossilFriday

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Bryan Gee @koskinonodon.bsky.social · Nov 19

It's been a low productivity year for me paper-wise, in part because of a massive project I've been cooking up for a while & that I'm happy to announce the first release of: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

TEMNOS (Temnospondyl Evolution, Morphology, Nomenclature, and Other Stuff)

#TemnospondylTuesday 🧵👇

TEMNOS (Temnospondyl Evolution, Morphology, Nomenclature, and Other Stuff) v1.0.0

This is the initial release of the TEMNOS database, which contains three metadata files, four data files, an overarching README, a README for each data file, and a contributing document. Refer to the ...

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Megan Whitney @megwhit.bsky.social · Nov 15

For #FossilFriday, and my first post here, a beautiful section of a radioulna from Poebrotherium. Along with @gondwannabe.bsky.social, my student Kara Ehler is describing the seasonal growth of this early camel.

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