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Megan Whitney

@megwhit.bsky.social

Vertebrate paleontologist and paleohistologist | Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago

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The Whitney Lab had a blast presenting at #2025SVP this past week!

16.11.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Communicating Science with New Purpose Abstract. The scientific enterprise of the United States is facing challenges on a scale that many living scientists have never encountered. After nearly a

Important read by @thomsanger.bsky.social for anyone in science.

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19.08.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s a beaut! I commissioned @serpenillus.bsky.social for this incredible piece that has quite a purpose. The new SVP Memoir dropped while we were in Zambia πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡² on a field expedition alongside the government.
More soon, but for now enjoy. 😊

14.08.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Graduation week here at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. This year’s graduate and undergraduate graduates from the Whitney Lab 🀩. This team: published, presented at national conferences, did fieldwork, worked in museum collections, and even made a lab instagram. They will be so missed and look out world!

09.05.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a fun group to chat with about the importance of paleohisto data accessibility!

18.03.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@gondwannabe.bsky.social and I had a blast working with students from Loyola and the Idaho Museum of Natural History this week on developing our curation system of Lance Creek micro vertebrate fossils. Special thanks to the @burkemuseum.bsky.social for hosting us! #FossilFriday

08.02.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
TEMNOS (Temnospondyl Evolution, Morphology, Nomenclature, and Other Stuff) v1.0.0 This is the initial release of the TEMNOS database, which contains three metadata files, four data files, an overarching README, a README for each data file, and a contributing document. Refer to the ...

It's been a low productivity year for me paper-wise, in part because of a massive project I've been cooking up for a while & that I'm happy to announce the first release of: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

TEMNOS (Temnospondyl Evolution, Morphology, Nomenclature, and Other Stuff)

#TemnospondylTuesday πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

19.11.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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For #FossilFriday, and my first post here, a beautiful section of a radioulna from Poebrotherium. Along with @gondwannabe.bsky.social, my student Kara Ehler is describing the seasonal growth of this early camel.

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