Melissa E. Kemp

Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Islands, lizards, fossils, and DNA excite me! Tweets are my own.

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

Happy #BlackInNHMs week! It’s #RollCall time: I’m Melissa Kemp, a paleobiologist & assistant prof @UTAustin. I study how vertebrates respond to global change phenomena.

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

Our fundraiser is live! Please consider donating to help students, educators, and families in Western Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa! https://t.co/uVi6EgX6IQ

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

In a few weeks, we are launching a #HornRaiser to support children, teachers, and families in #Jamaica who were impacted by #HurricaneMelissa. Stay tuned for more details and please R/T when it is time! 🙏🏾🇯🇲

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

Please consider donating to our GEOPAths GO: Jamaica program, which supports conservation, service learning, undergraduate research, and graduate research in Jamaica, for Caribbean and American students!
https://t.co/uJStkFkGok #GPGOJA

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@MunozLabYale Congratulations!!!! So richly deserved!

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@jmhuiee You should consider applying for the Stengl-Wyer Fellowship here at UT Austin! https://t.co/W1icnM2ZhL

[Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @deepseadawn]

Did you know? Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, newly-announced running mate of @VP Harris, was the keynote speaker at our @EsriUC just last month??? Catch his super inspiring talk here:

https://t.co/HBpsM6oW5Y

Cc @leahstokes

[Tenille Clarke @tenilleclarke1]

“We are no longer prepared to accept that it is okay for us to constantly suffer significant loss and damage (…) while countries that are responsible for creating the situation sit idly by with platitudes and tokenism” oh let’s WAKE IT UP PM DICKON AMISS THOMAS MITCHELL!!! 🇬🇩

[Anshuman Swain @anshuswain]

Thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor and Curator at the University of Michigan in Jan 2025. My time will be split between @UMichEEB and @UMichPaleo

I will soon be looking for graduate students and postdocs. Please spread the word! 📣📣

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@jaimiAgray @UTexasCT @UTAustin Congratulations, and welcome to Texas!!

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

Beyond thrilled that @DavidTLedesma successfully defended his dissertation earlier this week! Congratulations Dr. Ledesma!!!! 🦎

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@anjgoswami @royalsociety @NHM_London @uclbiosciences @ES_UCL @UChicagoPaleo @UMichPaleo Congratulations!!!! So richly deserved!

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@Chris_J_Law @ScienceMagazine 🔥🔥🔥congratulations, this is awesome!!!!

[Katie Solari @kasolari]

Excited to share our new preprint on snow leopard genomics - the culmination of a years-long collaboration across the snow leopard community @snowleopards @PantheraCats @TheWCS @snowleopardkg and @PCG_Stanford @PetrovADmitri @_ellie_cat @African_Morgan
https://t.co/BBdKVpV54u 🧵

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

@DSKarp @RachaelABay I'm curious about her thoughts on pie.

[Black in Natural History Museums @BlackInNHMs]

The stories of Black scientists are often overlooked & untold.

Thus, #BlackInNHMs is proud to share the stories of 17 Black people, who contributed to natural history, with our FIRST exhibit!

It was produced in partnership with @FloridaMuseum. Stay tuned for more info below👇🏿

[Science Under The Stars @sci_under_stars]

Join us for our SUTS event on 10/12, featuring Dr. Ummat Somjee. Dr. Somjee will talk about animal weaponry in nature, exploring their diverse forms, evolutionary origins, and captivating reasons behind their existence 🪲

🕗 8pm, 10/12
📍BFL

[Dr. Jenny McGuire @JennyMcGPhD]

I sadly cannot go to @SVP_vertpaleo this year. However, our group is sending an excellent undergraduate researcher, Isaac, who is in need of a roommate. If you know of someone who also needs a roommate, please ping me so that we can connect them up!

[Dr. Corrie Moreau @CorrieMoreau]

Do you know a kid interested in nature, science, or natural history museums? @meganbarkdull_ @ColleenEcology @MoniquePipkin and I wrote a fun paper for @FrontiersIn Young Minds titled "Natural History Collections: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?"
https://t.co/ukV8ngXWrP

[Melissa E. Kemp @melisabetta]

📢JOB ALERT PLEASE RT📢 I am hiring a lab tech! Main responsibility will be segmenting and landmarking 🦎CT data as part of an NSF-funded project. I'll start reviewing applications on September 1, until the position is filled! to apply: https://t.co/xPNQLnmeip