Preparator Grace

Preparator at The Mammoth Site. Cretaceous Generalist with a side of skeletonization. BSc General Geology. She/her. All opinions are my own.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

I'm leaning in to my geological roots (and a new love of Inkscape) by opening up a Rebdubble store! All designs are inspired by rocks, minerals, and crystals. Please share and retweet! #geology #GeologyRocks #GeologyArt #SelfPromotion

https://t.co/VWes6gc2lN

[PalaeoPoems @Palaeopoems]

Our latest PalaeoPoem is now up! Listen to "The Nautilus and the Ammonite" by George F. Richardson on our blog. The stunning guest art this month is by @JadeInJoggins.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@JoschuaKnuppe @GilesPalaeoLab As a how it started/how it’s going?

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@alaskanime Well, there’s a decent chance that she doesn’t, either.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

Huh. Well. I certainly wasn’t expecting to find *this* in my costumes box. Talk about a blast from the past!

It starts up, but I think the battery is so low that it’s barely able to do so. I’ll have to track down the charging cord.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

Another piece arrived! It’s probably not hard to guess who I’m going as for Halloween, now.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

Bits and pieces of my Halloween costume are beginning to arrive in the mail. It’s been a minute since I’ve gone all-in on an outfit, but I think that this one is going to turn out great!

[Dr. Amelia R. Zietlow 🦎 @TyrantLzrdQueen]

paleontologists

[Joschua Knüppe @JoschuaKnuppe]

Oh snap, it's #PortfolioDay!
I do stuff with critters, many of them dead, many of them stupid looking. And when they are not stupid enough I make them more stupid!

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@Texaspaleo Considering who the guy was outside of painting pictures of birds, though...

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@fladias_phys I mean, I’m not opposed to wearing parts of it outside of Halloween!

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

Bits and pieces of my Halloween costume are beginning to arrive in the mail. It’s been a minute since I’ve gone all-in on an outfit, but I think that this one is going to turn out great!

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@tattoosandbones Gotta say, I also love Crocuta crocuta.

[Sew Yup’ik | UGC Creator @sewyupik]

This beautiful qaspeq is up for auction on my Sew Yup’ik Facebook page ❤️ #sewyupik

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

I was planning on being productive today. Was.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@Andywaxer “It makes me viscerally uncomfortable in a way where I *need* to know more” would be the more honest take, but I’m mostly joking around with Yara here.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

Since I moved, I have:

- Dug in a cave
- Cooked a lot
- Whittled down the limbs of my longbow to make the draw weight more manageable
- Contemplated building a smoker

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

So, I've been stuck in my new home without internet for close to a month. I'm making do with a cell hotspot and trying my hand at anything that doesn't require an internet connection.

I'm at the point where I have to choose to finish either my longbow or knitting my gloves.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

My generation's parents were right about the influence of video games on a person, they were just wrong about it being Call of Duty.

It's Minecraft.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@Yara_Haridy See, this is why I stick to fish. I *expect* fish to do weird stuff.

[Preparator Grace @Smolichthys]

@Yara_Haridy Which would be fine if it was a hog of some kind.

It's not. It's a marsupial "tapir" that doesn't have any living relatives until you go up to the suborder level.