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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · 9d

We need a call to action to save museums and get attendance back up… my heart aches for my home and institution 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🔬🔭🧬🌎🌱 youtu.be/wUxFy3iTE9E?...

Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences to cut hours

YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Aug 13

Last week I visited the rex, the myth, the legend… SUE! I’ve seen @suethetrex.bsky.social many times over the years at The Field Museum, but this was at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social in her new stance! I was so inspired & felt compelled to bow to the tyrant Iizard king 💜🦖🦴 Happy Unearth Day!

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · May 29

Ever dreamed of working at a dinosaur museum? We have part time positions open for public programs here at ANSP! Talk with guests about our research, history, and collection of over 20 million items! Click the link below to learn more. Based in Philadelphia, PA.

careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · May 4

I absolutely hate this timeline. Can we have a mulligan?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 4

Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · May 4

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal workers in limbo amid whiplash White House firings and court-ordered rehirings

Trump and Musk’s Doge agency have spread confusion and uncertainty among government employees

www.theguardian.com

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Christiana Garros @chrissygarros.bsky.social · Apr 21

Paper here, thread following
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Osteohistological analysis of metatarsals reveals new information on pathology and life history of troodontids from the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

A histological survey of troodontid metatarsals from the Dinosaur Park Formation (DPF) was conducted, revealing correlates for stresses in the troodontid arctometatarsus and providing the first histo....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 20

Where are my DK Dinosaur Hunters at?! This game immersed me into a world as a kid (7 yr), and now is my career (36 yr)! I took the audio from the game and meshed it to our Dino Hall at ANSP. I need this game revamped for the new generation.

🧪👩🏻‍🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Apr 17

Catching a glimpse of ancient Mars | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Catching a glimpse of ancient Mars

Exposed minerals hint at the evolution of geochemical conditions on early Mars

www.science.org

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Utah Friends of Paleontology @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hybrid Meeting with author Christa Sadler, Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 PM. Sadler will talk about her brand-new book: "Dinosaur Frontier: Utah at the Dawn of the Cretaceous".

Visit the UFOP website at rb.gy/eh1jft for more info or to sign up for the online meeting.

#FossilFriday

Composite image with portrait photo of author Christa Sadler, an image of the cover of her new book, "Dinosaur Frontier", and a painting by Andrey Autuchin showing some of the many dinosaurs found in Utah's Early Cretaceous.

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 18

It’s been so long since I’ve visited the museums in NYC! I really need to make a trip there soon. That photo is gorgeous!

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 13

With all the dire wolf stories out there, how about we take a moment to enjoy some quiet time alone in Dinosaur Hall with the ghosts of the Mesozoic Era. Here we have a Chasmosaurus and Corythosaurus at ANSP. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🦖🌎 #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #paleontology #geoscience #sciencemuseum

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 13

Agreed. I’d love to see this used on recently extinct species that we have preserved dna from.

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

UGHHHHHHHHHH

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 10

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list

The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

This is epic!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 11

New paper!

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.

This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should

ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook

academic.oup.com

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

Drives me wild 😭

Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

As a husky owner, I definitely agree! When GOT came out, I knew huskies were gonna end up bought and dumped immediately 😭 because no research was done prior to getting one. The last thing we need is more dumped dogs 😭

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

Switching on a few variants in gray wolf dna that match dire wolves is not de-extinction. It’s a step in the right direction though.

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 11

I know 😭 This whole media frenzy is the opposite of how proper science should be communicated and detailed out.

Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 9

I made a meme (?) during these dire times. 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬 #paleosky #paleontology #direwolf #sciencenews

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 9

You did what I want to do but so far I’ve only made a meme because I’m so frustrated 🤣😭

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Apr 9

Working on a video about the Dire Wolf frenzy that is taking over social media… especially the misinformation.

They’re still extinct.

My museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, does have the Joseph Leidy type specimen (not 📷) of Aenocyon dirus & I have a tattoo of one!

Stay tuned for its release 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬

Photo of a dire wolf skull (not the type specimen) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Dire wolf surrounded by sacred geometry tattoo

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Mar 19

Saturday was a good day for rockhounding! The highlight was all the pyromorphite, plus this dragon head looking quartz.

#geology #minerals 🧪⛏️🪨👩🏻‍🔬🌎

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · Mar 14

Great news. Nay, the best news.

Flickr user and all-around hero grafxmangrafxman has uploaded photos of every single fossil and text graphic from the old NMNH fossil halls. Including many that I had failed to document. I'm ecstatic! Thanks Enzo B for the heads up.

www.flickr.com/photos/80431...

Jurassic Giants panel with 1982 tail-dragging line art of Diplodocus and Camarasaurus

Ceratogualus mounted skeleton with long nearby text panel

Act Three: The Cenozoic Era: The Curtain rises on modern sea life. Panel with geologic timeline sidebar.

Close Encounters panel with historic Stegosaurus illustrations

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Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield @palaeoamber.com · Mar 13

Some good rockhounding yesterday. I’ll be back to this location Saturday to film some long-form videos for my YT channel as I start my journey into online science communication (on top of my museum scientific job)! 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬 #minerals #geology #earthscience #rocks #geoscience

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