New paper led by my graduate student @crowleyk.bsky.social investigating the evolutionary origin, phylogeny, and biogeography of flexible crinoids across the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction! Huge congrats to Kiera on her first 1st authored paper. Check it out!

On the origin and evolution of Superorder Flexibilia (Echinodermata): a Bayesian tip‐dated phylogenetic assessment of Ordovician–Silurian flexible crinoids

The crinoid Superorder Flexibilia originated in the late Middle Ordovician and, following the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), radiated into one of the major constituents of Palaeozoic crinoid...

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Feeling very honored to receive recognition from AWG for doing the work I love to do!

Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬@daveyfwright.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge congratulations to my graduate student, @crowleyk.bsky.social, as the recipient of the prestigious Winifred Goldring Award from the Association for Women Geoscientists! Way to go Kiera!

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Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 9mo ago

TLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology

Semi-infaunal squid? Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one www.livescience.com/animals/moll...

'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant

A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.

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In the last 11 days another 102 donors have given >than $40,000, with some other donations in stock waiting to become available for use. PRI can make it with your help! Please continue to share with your networks for potential donors so we can keep the museum and its online resources available!

Dr. Judith Hubbard@judithgeology.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Museum of the Earth isn't just a place to marvel at the physical record of how life evolved on Earth - it also provides virtual access to that collection with remarkable 3D models! www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi... Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure #savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑 @lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...

Saving the Museum

After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to

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Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵

⚒️ New paper out in Paleobiology with Aaron Goodman, W. Allmon, @crowleyk.bsky.social, A. Farnsworth, M. Hopkins, D. Lunt, and Cori Myers: Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another day in the field with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History team on Anticosti Island. Here, Lena and I are joined by OU Geosciences grad students Kiera Crowley (Wright lab) and Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab)

This new exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth lives up to its name, with an amazing spread of modern and fossil specimens.

Day 1 of photoshopping John Oliver onto/into fossils in the hopes that he saves my old museum, the Paleontological Research Institution I think he makes a great snail! Fossil is the Murex shilhoensis type, a junior synonym of Favartia shilohensis, comedian is H. sapiens #savepri #Museumofthearth

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️ In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural history museums in upstate New […]

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As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect and preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever.

New article by @science.org on the financial crisis at PRI. PRI has played an invaluable role in my personal growth as an academic paleontologist and Earth science educator. We *must* preserve organizations with such long-standing commitments to science education and wise stewardship of the planet.

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute

“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

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Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US). ⚒️🧪🦑 Please share widely and help if you can! ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...

Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors […]

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