Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)

Amazing new taphonomy resource from the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Kenya! Great for research and students!

Shallow‐Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform Significant changes in benthic marine assemblages in response to the PETM PETM caused the extirpation of red algae, a turnover in larger benthic foraminifera, and a protracted recovery Disappear...

Anna's paper on ecological turnover at the PETM has been published!

Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform
@txgeosciences.bsky.social
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Bordeaux Summer School on Advanced #MassSpec for Cultural Heritage

16-20 June 2025 bridges #MassSpec & cultural heritage
application deadline May 23rd, 2025

Proteins, Lipids & Carbohydrates

Perfect for PhDs, post-docs, academics & museum professionals!

bss-appliedchemistry.u-bordeaux.fr/en/

E) giant Purple Martin birdhouse

Regardless it’s got a bomb coffee shop inside — and it’s quiet! 10/10

Awesome opportunity for advanced undergrads or recent grads below! 👇👇👇

Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇

Super stoked to share this exciting research tomorrow morning! Come check it out! #SAA2025

Great start to #SAA2025 with a Geoarchaeology excursion to the Kanorado locality! Now looking forward to hearing some great research!

Denver bound! Super excited to present some awesome new research at #SAA2025!

FABULOUS Instagram post by Dr. John Moretti (@stray_sabercat) on dire wolf “de-extinction”! Well put, Sir, well put. 👏🏼

Undoubtedly Elon will be involved.

Amazing work, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @tsutatsuta.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and everyone else involved!

A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Me: Nothing is cuter than baby opossums.

Husband: What about baby skunks?

Me: Oo. Tricky.

Setting aside that it’s not actually a dire wolf, my question is: what do they plan to DO with it? They made a bigger version of a historically persecuted species with stronger bite force. What are they going to do….release a pack of ‘em? Where? Get your popcorn for some off the wall NIMBYism.

Now, *that's* what I call de-extinction!

Text that reads: The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility (UTCT) will host a short course on the fundamentals of acquisition, visualization, and analysis of high-resolution X-ray CT (HRXCT) data for biological and paleontological specimens June 2-4, 2025 in Austin, TX. This short course will present an overview of the acquisition, interpretation, 3D visualization and analysis of HRXCT data. This will be followed by hands-on training focused on 3D visualization, surface extraction, and segmentation (e.g., endocasts, digital dissection) including deep learning. Covered programs include ImageJ, Dragonfly, and 3D Slicer/SlicerMorph. This course is sponsored in part by NSF and funds are available to help cover the cost of travel, lodging, and meals. There is no charge to attend. Because we will not be able to accept all applicants, preference will be given to those who have/will have HRXCT data for the course and have a demonstrated need for immediate application of the skills learned. Students and early-career researchers receive priority. Participants are invited to bring their own HRXCT data, or to have specimens scanned (at a significant discount) at UTCT prior to the course.

Every year UTCT teaches NSF sponsored short courses on high-resolution X-ray CT, taught by UTCT staff (including me!). Applications for the 2025 courses are now open! See below for the biological/paleontological course info, & we also have a geological one. If you'd like to apply, send me a DM 🩻☢️🦴

Thank you, and likewise! Was very happy to see your name pop up on my feed and that you are doing so well!

Doing a PhD in Texas! Forgot to come up for air!

Awesome new resource for introducing zooarchaeology to kids! Fantastic educational resource that I’m so excited about!

So excited about this! What an awesome resource! Congrats!

I'm always so excited and honored to support my friends and colleagues as they defend their dissertations! Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. John Moretti, and I can't wait to watch @brontonorris.bsky.social become Dr. Liam Norris tomorrow!

Hello! It’s been while! I hope you have been well!

Always good to pause over something that sounds too good to be true. If it’s real it’ll hold up to rigorous analysis. If it’s not, we need to know — even if the answer isn’t the one we wanted!

In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

It may be a bit "inside baseball," but I'm wildly excited about the promise of palaeoproteomics -- not quite as much info as DNA, but can give us info from millions of years ago. This new paper out today shows they were able to figure out biological sex of an A. africanus specimen (2-3.5myo). 🏺🧪

For my inaugural post, I’d like to point out that any version of Sleeping Beauty where the King burns all the spinning wheels is both economically disastrous and also an excellent argument against Abstinence Only education. This wisdom brought to you by multiple readings of the tale to my youngest.