Paleo “Paleostud” Stud

MS student in paleontology . B.S with honors in Geology, Magna cum Laude, biology minor, life-long weirdo. He/him.

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I love how I have my accomplishments in my Twitter bio as if this silly little account with its silly little posts about silly little rocks/dirts/dead things is gonna be what gets me my big boy job. Like shut up with that nonsense past me.

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Hot take, titanium coated quartz blows died quartz out of the water, despite both being artificially colored. This is because
1) The process of titanium coating is cooler than dying
2) Titanium coating is actually pretty.

Not accepting debates if you disagree, die mad about it

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Today while working in the geology museum, I heard a kid whine that it was "just rocks in here." I truly have no idea what you expected bud.

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@SchmanthonyP But what if he’s a professor in geology and I wanna show him my samples? Is too high up to analyze them from my hand. They must be thrown.

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There’s a geo networking event at the Denver Museum tonight and they are playing the most sultry saxophone music ever like holy hell

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Hey

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The fact that America’s biggest beer festival and the annual gsa conference are coinciding is so weirdly serendipitous. Almost stereotypically so.

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@_bridgetlynch Well shucks, thanks for the shout out

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I will be presenting a poster at the Geological Society of America conference this Sunday from 4-6 pm. It’s “Lithological Influences on Mosasaur Fossil Taphonomy within the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota”

Feel free to swing by if the spirit moves you

#GSA #GSA2022

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I probably don’t put on as good of a fake smile as I think I do when visitors come into the museum, hand me a lump of chert, and tell me they wanna sell me this dinosaur egg they found. I probably look like this if I had to hazard a guess.

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In order to better understand the dissolution of mosasaur bones due to gypsum encrustation that I’m studying, I will now encrust myself in gypsum. Don’t bother checking in on me, I’ll be too dissolved to answer.

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@IzukiUmbra I can’t not read SD as South Dakota

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My findings are confirmed, that sure is a box of poorly preserved bones

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So people are doing a thing where they share a pic of themselves and what anime character they think they most look like. So here’s me (left) and Spike Taylor (right). He’s the paleontologist and dad from Dinosaur King.

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Yesterday while working at the museum of geology I explained how and why there’s missing data in the rock and fossil records to an old lady. She said that sounds frustrating to deal with and apologized that it’s like that.

Thank you ma’am but I’m sure you didn’t cause the gaps

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This weekend at a county fair a person saw my shirt said “geology” and very excitedly shouted “hey geologist” I turned and he toasted me with his beer Stein and just went “wooooooo, geology!”

The fact that no one has greeted me like this before means y’all should up your games

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@LakotaMan1 Yup, and the best spots for field work are always in areas filled with trumpers and I wish I could escape it

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@JuliaLepetit @FLoaBComic Holy hell congrats!

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My fieldwork prof went from responding to us finding fossils with “that’s great find more. Find more fossils. Keep looking. Etc.” To “y’all are obsessing over finding fossils and need to slow down” way too quick

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Niche but beloved art genre: super hood extinct local animal sculpture in the middle of a small town. Here’s a super detailed mosasaur in Chamberlain, SD. It’s so good and also just randomly by a church and a baseball field just kinda chilling