Alexis McBride

Archaeologist. Museum educator @ROMToronto Public space aficionado. Fantasy lover. Tea drinker. She/her. @[email protected]

[fernanda castano @ferwen]

Mary Mantell, was born #OTD in 1795. She is recognised for finding the first #Iguanodon tooth in 1822 in Sussex. She also made the illustration of Mantell’s work: “Fossils of the South Downs: or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex”.
https://t.co/NM9Hc5cY3o

[Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jasmina_wiemann]

If you are still looking for inspiration on how to decorate your #EasterEggs 🥚 this year, you might want to check out our reconstructions of #dinosaur #egg colors (8 years of research)! 🦕🦖🐣🤩

#paleontology #Easter2023 #kidsactivities #design

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

I love the idea of a catch and release aquarium! At Ucluelet’s collect-and-release aquarium, sea creatures come for a good time, not a long time - The Globe and Mail https://t.co/iNTrbDSV0e

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #WomensArt One of the many true stories in the @womensart1 book

[Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez 🍉 @Archaeofiend]

First Nation awarded ownership of iconic Ontario beach after long court battle https://t.co/lVFZUtwWkP

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Where have all the #museumed people gone? Trying to find my peeps elsewhere!

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Got setup for a new #museumed lesson @ROMtoronto today! Students will be exploring pairs are species to see if they can figure out what ties them together! (Hint: they evolved together!)

[John Hawks @johnhawks]

“What color were Neandertals?”

For a hundred years, artists and scientists have depicted them basically like Europeans. Now genomes are providing new evidence about their pigmentation, but most is still unknown. A look at the developing science.

https://t.co/vZ6o3FRQaY

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

@Pyropithecus Don’t apologize! I just didn’t see it until today and wanted to give it some love!

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Quote tweeting since it’s not #AprilFool anymore, but this was very fun!

[🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 @Pyropithecus]

Be sure to read up on my new project "DINOLIGHT: The role of #firelighting by Extremely Early #Palaeolithic (EEP) #hominids in the end-#Cretaceous #extinction of the #dinosaurs" in this @UniLeiden press release! #April1st, @LeidenArchaeo goes full-dino 🦖

https://t.co/92CbOR0Lx4

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Male cockroaches secrete a few drops of sugary fluid on their backs to entice females to mate with them. But since glucose is used in poison baits, some females have developed an aversion to the sweet stuff – forcing the males to change the formula for ... https://t.co/71e72m8148

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

I’m so excited!

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I’m so excited to be able to share this - the cover of my upcoming novel for 8-12 year olds - WOLF ROAD! This image by brilliant artist Keith Robinson captures the excitement and adventure at the heart of my book. Out in August… @simonschusterUK

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

For those interested in helping to identify and confront residential school denialism, please consider sharing/using this primer Daniel Heath Justice and I wrote - rather than giving denialists more attention (which is what they desperately want): https://t.co/jpfQCewG9i

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Really interesting article about a researcher developing really profound and important relationships with Indigenous communities and truly incorporating TEK into the research.

https://t.co/7AwI5txc9g

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Did something new with my @romtoronto #museumed students today. I put a piece of paper in the middle of the table, between the #objectbasedlearning to encourage all students to contribute rather than one controlling the writing - it worked so well!

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"People say “we won the war”, even if they didn’t fight and weren’t born. They say “we won the World Cup”, even if they didn’t play. But when you mention slavery, they say: “ It wasn't me. I wasn’t alive.” This contradiction is clearly unsustainable." https://t.co/I65vvHRpjb

[Alexis McBride @LexMcBride]

Interesting article about "domestication syndrome" and how some species might have self-domesticated, developing similar features to other domesticated species https://t.co/abKgCiWzSv

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.

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[UM Paleontology @UMichPaleo]

Spring's softening ground reveals hidden treasures, like the mastodon tracks found by a farmer in Saline, Michigan in 1992. While dredging a pond, over 20 circular footprints were uncovered - the longest mastodon trackway discovered yet! Check them out at @UMMNH! #fossilfriday

[X @Pteroterror]

Paleontology term from native Siberians:

Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become word MAMMOTH!

📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia