Jim Kirkland

State Paleontologist for Utah; exploring and promoting the history of life in our southwestern deserts for the public good and the wonder of it all.

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Oops... I interacted with "Voldemort," but I had ethical standards that were set just a touch to high to get sucked into this...lol Why not build a public museum "in Utah" as a legacy in perpituity with your name on the door! https://t.co/znhDWprxU3

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

We will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, -- August 6. #FossilFriday https://t.co/1Qi5t3vZnK... Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous in eastern Utah. @JurassicFDN @WhyDinosaurs

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

#FossilFriday The holotype and paratype of the new species of Hoplitosaurus have dorsal osteoderms with distinct "invertebrate" induced pathologies that clearly different from the irrgular "fungal-bacterial" pathologies in the older Gastonia. @Paleontologizin @CanSVP

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

UGS preparator-Field paleo job is posted. This is a career track position with someone with establish skills. Must be able to be a lead on fed. paleo permit and I would like to see porfolio of preparations. Geo-focused! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social https://t.co/FWxFzivrlr

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

My talk from last Wednesday for UFOP in St George, Utah. https://t.co/UPHKFxFvjS @Paleontologizin @UTPublicEd @UUtah @protectwildutah @PaleoSoc @Palaeonto_Soc @CanSVP @valdosaurus @JeremyBRoberts @theNASciences @ScienceNotDogma @JurassicFDN

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

We will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, through the first week in August. #FossilFriday
https://t.co/53IV5SgoBA Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous. @TomHoltzPaleo @JurassicFDN

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Don DeBlieux has been overseeing a paleontological inventory @CanyonlandsNPSover the past 5 years. The Early Triassic Moenkopi story has turned out to be the most exciting, hopefully some of the more accessible sites will be interpreted. @MoabSunNews @MuseumOfMoab @MoabTimes

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

It is out just in time for #FossilFriday. Napoli's https://t.co/omZ66ftZuJ ENJOY! The present is the key to the past! The skeletal phenotype is poor representation of the genotype for phylogenetics, but it is all we got. @Dino_Chinzorig @Paleontologizin

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Excellent!! https://t.co/DKBBWQp6NJ

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Utah Friends of Paleontology Annual meeting is coming up at the end of August, in Salt Lake City. https://t.co/lFuSqpFn9r @UUtah @LauerFoundation @Paleontologizin @JeremyBRoberts

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

For those of you that are were asking me just how primitive the shoulder girdle Utahraptor really is? We have several scapula-corocoides of different sizes in the Utahraptor megablock. This is the largest for #FossilFriday ! https://t.co/Wng1xzv38f

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

My talk from last Wednesday for UFOP in St George, Utah. https://t.co/UPHKFxFvjS @Paleontologizin @UTPublicEd @UUtah @protectwildutah @PaleoSoc @Palaeonto_Soc @CanSVP @valdosaurus @JeremyBRoberts @theNASciences @ScienceNotDogma @JurassicFDN

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Now that I have gotten the paper on our new basal Cret. polacanthid ankylosaur into review, here are a few figure of comparisons of significant skeltal elements across ankylosauria for #FossilFriday Seems I lost X on my phone...oh well... Focus on Bluesky! @bluesky

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

https://t.co/QsYP6WPLeQ

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

The loss of Dr. Mike Burns is sad repeatedly encouraged him to get his dissertation published. His section on taxonomy and variation in the nodosaurids for publication with Phil Currie, sadly it was rejected and never resubmitted the manuscript. https://t.co/w7heLSgTd5

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Then of course Harvard has real specimens from that amazing localty. Protosuchus MCZ 6727 #FossilFriday too

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Protosuchus AMNH 3024 type cast at Harvard Museum of Natural History MCZ 2754 from the basal Jurassic Moenave Fm. on Ward Terrace, Navajo Nation, AZ for #FossilFriday @Dr_CrocoGator @Paleontologizin @jurassicguides @NavajoCountyAZ @utahgeological @AZGeology

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk called Hitler a socialist then Grok correctly debunks him by pointing out Hitler rejected Marxism and ran a fascist system that prioritized nationalism and private enterprise. Grok then explains socialism is class equality and worker ownership!

Never deleting this app.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine being this dumb, this ignorant of both basic history and basic political science, and being a United States Senator.

[Chris Towler @blkprofcct]

The fact that almost EVERY former confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives almost immediately after the SCOTUS decision should be more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection and racism is far from gone in this country.