Matildé Acosta

she/they sci comm, prep, collections, and sauropods 🦕🦕⛏️|UW-Madison 2025|🏳️‍🌈

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@thepeanutpal les text more pictures! it’s easier when you tell a story and use the lingo that makes you feel comfortable! Make jokes when it feels appropriate, run it through once or twice :) you’ve got it!

[Dr Matt Dempsey @Sketchy_raptor]

A message to fellow scientists - please do not under any circumstance use generative AI images as "illustrations" to promote research.

The relationship between scientists & artists is historically long standing and mutually beneficial. Don't set a precedence by trampling on it.

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@DALevering A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

the only problem I have with it (other than wasted resource) is that it would crush some kids dream that the museum, does not in fact, come to life after sunset..

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

ok hear me out; live cams for paleontology exhibits like they have for zoos/aquariums

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@MelanieDuring if the men feel like they need to point out ‘not all men’ perhaps theyre still part of the problem..

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@reptiliferous trackway activity!

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@DanPalaeon1 I’ve had dreams about doing modern specimen prep on cool animals haha

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@MustelidDwyer I went and checked it out a few days later and it was dead outside of its burrow but not injured. We had the vet out to look at our cows and he told me it was probably rabid after poking at it and to leave burrows alone lol.

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

Two words: rabid armadillo

[Mo Dwyer @MustelidDwyer]

Boring. Hubristic.

Instead, I want to know what’s the smallest animal that’s kicked your ass or sent you running? For me it’s a tree swallow.

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@MustelidDwyer hahaha lots of running! my dogs were really interested in it’s burrow so I went and checked it out after putting them in the house. It scurried out and was acting pretty aggressively—I thankfully had used my bike to go and inspect (I was 13) and rode away.

[Gabriel N. U. @SerpenIllus]

Who will get to have that temnospondyl lunch?!

A pair of Proterochampsa fight over a yummy Pelorocephalus in a Late Triassic day of what would become South America

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@Mattmcclellan1R Omg I did that yesterday too! (But I used Storygraph for the pretty graphs )

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@drshawna no!

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

If I had a nickel..

[Scott Hartman @skeletaldrawing]

This misunderstanding creates so many science communication headaches.

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@DALevering I think actual discussion could be very productive! If that gets implemented perhaps posting some of the main questions before the symposia would be helpful for people to organize thoughts/feel more prepared.

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

pfft what am I talking about though lm just being a Radical Youth who Doesn’t Understand🫠

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

hey guys I know everyone is in academia and jaded and everything but can’t we all just be /nice/.. like ik everyone sucks but we’d all suck less if we were just a bit nicer….

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@CalebBohus @t_hotchner if you remove an entire honey bear—it’s scrumdiddly

[Matildé Acosta @tillytilder]

@CalebBohus @t_hotchner here’s the insider scoop: everytime Tony makes chili, a honey bear dies.

(this is a heinous act I came into contact with during field season)