Isiah Newbins

Oh Steve!! This is cool! The more LK South American fauna the better!

23.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been working in natural history museums since I was 16, in that time I’ve met very few researchers who look like me. AMNH opening an exhibit highlighting black scientists in natural history (esp in our current climate) is MONUMENTAL to say the least! This will be a must visit!

23.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Birds. Words finished and edited!
And we have a title now...
Coming May-June 2026! @marinerbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

19.08.2025 17:24 — 👍 78    🔁 13    💬 8    📌 1

More photos

20.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Field season came and went! Five weeks of great people, lots of stratigraphy, ~2k lbs of sediment collection (meaning tons of microfossils), even some rodeos!

20.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy #FossilFriday !

I had an AWESOME time this week, CT scanning and printing my tiny #Campanian therians at FHL’s Lab 8!

Thanks @fishguy.bsky.social for showing me the ropes and having me up there!

06.06.2025 22:06 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Of course! Here are some of the fossils we scanned!
The teeth are so small that we mount them on the heads of pins (safety and easier to study)!

They sit at about ~ 75 MYA!

Small but mighty! Late Cretaceous mammals are the best!

06.06.2025 21:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This is also the first time I have see a scientific use of multicolor filament. The three colors in this filament end up identifying facets of the teeth that face in the same direction.
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06.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

3D printed models of tiny fossil teeth in a green/gold/pink tricolor filament.

Printouts of fossils teeth for Isiah Newbins. These fossils are about the size of a sesame seed. Being able to hold them and compare shapes is helpful in thinking about variation and function.
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06.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 57    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

Teaching people about Multituberculates has been a little easier recently (tattoo-Filikomys; specimen-Meniscoessus [mesial end of a left p/4])

29.04.2025 16:43 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

They call me the microfossil bloodhound

The sick stance is absolutely necessary during a pre-pick.

Good form= good fossils

09.04.2025 01:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s never aliens.

13.12.2024 01:21 — 👍 8148    🔁 393    💬 653    📌 112

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us!
Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens!
Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me.
Details👇
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

25.11.2024 15:32 — 👍 184    🔁 78    💬 3    📌 6

My recent paper on the evolution of elephant/proboscidean trunks and tusks!

19.11.2024 00:15 — 👍 43    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🦖🎅

19.11.2024 00:32 — 👍 103    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 1

I'm a simple man. Put me in a place with rocks and I'll love you forever. 🪨

18.11.2024 02:20 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

a white and red u-haul truck is parked in front of a building ALT: a white and red u-haul truck is parked in front of a building

Moving into my Bluesky account (finally) in the middle of the night like:

16.11.2024 08:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0