Kiersten Formoso, PhD(epressed)

Also. Hi.

Is Bluesky fun yet?

My first Avatar: Biology & Design video! Some science behind the flying animals of Pandora! Avatar 3 hype!!! #avatar #paleontology #science #biology #avatarfireandash #avatar3 #avatarthewayofwater #cr... TikTok video by Formorphology

WE ARE IN #AVATARFIREANDASH COUNTDOWN SEASON

Learn about cool biology things through the lens of Avatar in my new series on IG and TikTok 💙

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8khDGEH/

Better yet, it's the Carcharodon hubbelli holotype, which highlights the transition from non-serrated "makos", formerly Isurus hastalis, into the modern species Carcharodon carcharias - and helped disprove the idea that the modern great white is closely related to "the meg"!

It's not only #FossilFriday, but also the 50th Anniversary of Jaws 🦈 one of my favorite movies. I'm celebrating by sharing this 5 million year old ancestral great white shark fossil from Peru's famed Pisco Formation.

*Almost* a modern GWS, it doesn't quite have the tooth serrations of today's.

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It's #MotionMonday
Topic: Cursorial animals 🐆 🦌 🐕

Made my first influencer-y reel because people kept telling me I needed to start lol 😔

I remember it so vividly. Saw it twice. First go around as a kid and then a 2nd time years later in college. The T. rex broke down the 2nd time and they had to use the Allosaurus lmao

Arguably my second favorite Walking with Dinosaurs.

New Regal poster for Jurassic World Rebirth featuring the revamped mosasaurus.

Love the dark on top, light on bottom countershading.

Fun fact that we have fossil evidence of this! www.nature.com/articles/nat...

(But don't ever do 4DX, it blows lol)

Strawberry Moon

Me when someone asks a question after my conference talk:

FINE.

I'll post on Bluesky.

Twitter is toasted, man. What a tragedy and infuriating loss of the following I built there all because of one tech ghoul's ego.

SAY DINOS...

Mammals after the K-Pg Extinction:

Is there Saurophaganax discourse on Bluesky too?

Tracking down and canceling subscriptions, calling my medical debt collector to dicuss a payment plan, building a new budget, pulling from my dwindling savings, etc.

Got no academic work done. It's past 6pm and I'm now mentally drained, tired, and angry.

Proof that financial stability/comfort yields productivity or rather than financial discomfort stifles it:

Had lofty research goals today. I was determined. But then I learned my rent is going up by more than I anticipated so I spent the WHOLE day doing intense money planning.

It's #MosasaurMonday! Here's a photo of one of the favs, Platecarpus tympaniticus @nhmla.bsky.social

Right Here Right Now, by Fatboy Slim

Can't believe none of you ever told me that the music video plot to one of the greatest songs ever made is evolution

He's my fav composer. A few tracks I love from him spanning quite a few albums:

Hand of Fate (Signs)
Egg Travels (Dinosaur)
Silver Comforts Jim (Treasure Planet)
Jungle Cruise
Flow Like Water (Last Airbender)
Snow Lands on Top (Hunger Games 4)
Crystal Chamber (Atlantis)
Return (Raya Last Dragon)

Was not expecting this YouTube Recap.

I was fully expecting River of Dreams to be my top track, but everything else was up in the air.

Top 1% of Billy Joel listeners though, what an HONOR.

CAN'T believe there's no Facebook mega group called "Academia Memes for Overworked Folks with Shattered Dreams" or something

I am a procurement expert in the rarest dank artifacts

Tis the Season

They don't prepare you for this

Opened up Twitter and got jump scared by that stupid subscriber final sale thing.

No, I'm not paying for that website. Not a cent. Sowwy.

Twitter is for coprolites, Bluesky is for exceptionally preserved Lagerstätte-derived specimens

(No offense to the scientific coolness of coprolites)

Smh

Guys look I'm so cool

A very toothy cetacean for #FossilFriday

Ankylorhiza. Whales are so funny to me because we "know" them but they are actually super alien looking. Like you're telling me this is an ultra specialized aquatic hoofed mammal?

(Yes. And now I'm telling you.)