Ashley W Poust

Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel.

Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses.
-What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

We counted T. rex.

In our new paper (link in thread) we develop a method to learn about extinct species from fossil data and ecological laws. There were ~20,000 T. rex at one time and the total number that ever lived was 2.5 billion.

Check it out - and dm me if you need a copy!

[Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh]

Thrilled to share: out now in @Nature (!) & just in time for US Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 https://t.co/lmYRRU1TLl

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

@Sergeir Horn core span is about 2m (a little more).
Cranial width is 35cm.
Some big horns! (though, you know, I've seen bigger)

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

Greetings and Happy #FossilFriday
A quiet end of the week here at UNSM, but I'm kept company by some of the largest beasts to ever walk the Earth.
Here's one of our Bison latifrons specimens, with horns spanning over 2 meters - if I lay down next to it they'd be longer than me!

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

We're hiring a curator of Botany!
to head the Bessey Herbarium at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share:

The UNL application site link is: https://t.co/hXnomeaOgt

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

We're hiring a curator of Botany!
to head the Bessey Herbarium at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share:

The UNL application site link is: https://t.co/hXnomeaOgt

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

@BethurumTim Government funded basic scientific research is some of the highest ROI spending we have, if not the absolute highest

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

Retweeting this for all of my students (and colleagues. and me.)

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

Literally, being good at math does not mean you're good at real statistics. Real statistics require stepping back from your methods, your data, and thinking about real-world variables.

[Nature Careers @NatureCareers]

Discovering how my brain works has helped me to better understand how to find equilibrium between my academic career and my well-being, says Ana Bastos. https://t.co/mxQmRgBBnI

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Dining at the Bucklands - William Buckland was a theologian, geologist & palaeontologist, wrote the first full description of a dinosaur and excavated what we now know was a Gravettian burial at Paviland in Wales

[City of San Diego @CityofSanDiego]

Fun fact: San Diego’s official tree, the Jacaranda, was first brought to the City by Kate Sessions! 💚

The City’s Urban Forestry Program will be planting trees to celebrate her legacy on Friday, Nov. 8, at Linda Vista Park!
#ClimateResilientSD #SanDiegoAtWork

[Brennan Stokkermans @BStokkermans]

Syndyoceras sketch

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

@reptiliferous Thank you for all your work on the committees and for being awesome!

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

@danny_oolithus @ErkasaurusR Wish you were here, Danny!

[Smithsonian NMNH @NMNH]

Interested in writing about meteorites and mammoths, squids and sloths, diamonds and dinosaurs?

Our paid 12-week, part-time Spring 2025 #SciComm internship will focus primarily on our Smithsonian Voices platform.

Apply by Nov. 10. Learn more: https://t.co/dXljFzEHOS

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

Lol. Haha.
It's official: @UNLincoln is a branch of starfleet academy. #StarTrek

[パンテオン @pantheo27705718]

#みずなみ化石フェスタ
パレオパラドキシア大野原標本
1972年埼玉県秩父市で発見

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

"We are a nation of immigrants, & we must remember that precious aspect of our history & heritage" -JFK

"We must be a city on a hill, the eyesore in a darkened world, a refuge for those who cherish freedom & for those who seek refuge" -Reagan

"We're like a garbage can" - Trump

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

@JoshuaGoji It does make you think about the future course of evolution.

Rodents have been that big before, and they'll be that big again!

[Ashley W Poust @AshPoust]

What can evolution do in 20 million years?

For camels in North America, it gets you from the size of a greyhound to the size of a giraffe.
Hope you can stretch your legs this weekend!
#UNSM #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪🦕