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Danielle Peltier
@paleodanny.bsky.social
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Paleontologist & Paleoanthropologist researching tectonic impact on ecology and human evolution 💀
Geoscience PhD candidate @ IU ⛏️
Geology lecturer @ USI 🪨
GSA Sci-Comm Fellow 📣
BS @ NMSU 🦴
first-gen, she/her
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paleodanny.bsky.social
Been a bit MIA lately but excited to announce I'll be defending my PhD dissertation this Monday! Send me a DM if you want to hear some cool findings from Olduvai Gorge and multi-agent based modeling!
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Danielle Peltier
policyhound.bsky.social
Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
paleodanny.bsky.social
Nat geo with holographic Taung child cover?? Best birthday present ever 😍
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Reposted by Danielle Peltier
iuearth.bsky.social
A year ago today, we were treated to a total solar eclipse here in Bloomington. Photos from our big day, from graduate student @paleodanny.bsky.social (1), faculty member @codykirkp.bsky.social (2,3), and an instrumented tower set up by the Indiana Geological and Water Survey (4).
Portrait-mode photograph of the sky during a total solar eclipse. A few street and building lights on at the bottom, otherwise the horizon is deep orange and fades to black at the top. Photographer: Danielle Peltier. Eclipse glasses with the IU EAS logo on them, on a red tablecloth with black mesh bag in the background. Photo by Cody Kirkpatrick. Photo of the IU Geological Sciences street sign in front of a total solar eclipse sky. The eclipsed sun is in between a couple of tree branches at the top. Photo by Cody Kirkpatrick. Photo of a solar eclipse sky from a remote camera behind the Indiana Geological and Water Survey Building. Buildings are lit up at the bottom, and the fisheye lens shows the eclipsed sun at the top. Photo courtesy IGWS.
April 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
paleodanny.bsky.social
Need a new geoscience podcast? Check out my interview with the host of @earthontherocks.bsky.social to learn more and find an episode!
speakingofgeoscience.org/2025/03/03/e...
Earth on the Rocks: Hear the Passion Behind the Research
What is geoscience? With only two states requiring an earth or environmental science course to graduate high school, most people either don’t know or think it’s just about rocks. “How can we, as a …
speakingofgeoscience.org
March 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM