Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
@stephanopteryx.bsky.social
Paleontologist 🦴⛏, functional morphologist 🦖🦜, @UF @UFVetMed Schachner lab postdoc 🩻🫁. She/hers #WomenInSTEM #oVertTCN #BirdAgenda
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What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Check out this timelapse I made while giving an Edmontosaurus a pedicure!
One small part of the story out today in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
One small part of the story out today in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Check out this timelapse I made while giving an Edmontosaurus a pedicure!
One small part of the story out today in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
One small part of the story out today in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Two new Edmontosaurus skeletons with preserved skin just got published by Paul Sereno and collegues. They had a fleshy scaly crest over their back and hoofed feet!
I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Two new Edmontosaurus skeletons with preserved skin just got published by Paul Sereno and collegues. They had a fleshy scaly crest over their back and hoofed feet!
I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Two New Dinosaur Fossils Emerge From the ‘Mummy Zone’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...
Two New Dinosaur Fossils Emerge From the ‘Mummy Zone’
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Two New Dinosaur Fossils Emerge From the ‘Mummy Zone’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...
Just in time for spooky season: DINOSAUR "MUMMIES!"
Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just in time for spooky season: DINOSAUR "MUMMIES!"
Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
Two “mummies” of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserve a fleshy crest over the neck and trunk, an interdigitating spike row over the hips and tail, and hooves cappi...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...
Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...
This was such a cool project to be a part of! I contributed scanning & rendering 3d anatomical models of some specimens, but this international team led by @gayani.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social combined many methods to reveal how exactly humans evolved to walk upright on two legs. 🚶♀️🚶♂️
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1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This was such a cool project to be a part of! I contributed scanning & rendering 3d anatomical models of some specimens, but this international team led by @gayani.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social combined many methods to reveal how exactly humans evolved to walk upright on two legs. 🚶♀️🚶♂️
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Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper:
journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...
Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!
journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...
Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper:
journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...
Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!
journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...
Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
This budget proposal will make your life worse.
Call your elected officials and oppose it.
Call your elected officials and oppose it.
May 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This budget proposal will make your life worse.
Call your elected officials and oppose it.
Call your elected officials and oppose it.
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
May 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @stephanopteryx.bsky.social & @paleofox.bsky.social w/
Jason Bourke & @rockjock80.bsky.social: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.
Jason Bourke & @rockjock80.bsky.social: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.
May 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @stephanopteryx.bsky.social & @paleofox.bsky.social w/
Jason Bourke & @rockjock80.bsky.social: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.
Jason Bourke & @rockjock80.bsky.social: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.
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New #OpenAccess dinosaur physiology paper out as part of the Bio Letters theme issue on 200 years of dinosaurs! 🥳 Led by Stephanie Baumgart 🦖🦕🫁🫀🧠
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
May 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New #OpenAccess dinosaur physiology paper out as part of the Bio Letters theme issue on 200 years of dinosaurs! 🥳 Led by Stephanie Baumgart 🦖🦕🫁🫀🧠
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
Wooo! This will officially be my first post on this app. 🥳Linked below is a new paper lead by my colleague @stephanopteryx.bsky.social ! I am so happy to share this with everyone - see post below for more details!
I couldn't have done this without such amazing collaborators!
@paleofox.bsky.social, @rockjock80.bsky.social , and Jason Bourke!
Silhouettes from phylopic (Andrew A. Farke, T. Michael Keesey, Brad McFeeters), parrot lungs from Lawson et al. 2021, CFD model by Jason Bourke, in Baumgart et al 2025.
@paleofox.bsky.social, @rockjock80.bsky.social , and Jason Bourke!
Silhouettes from phylopic (Andrew A. Farke, T. Michael Keesey, Brad McFeeters), parrot lungs from Lawson et al. 2021, CFD model by Jason Bourke, in Baumgart et al 2025.
May 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wooo! This will officially be my first post on this app. 🥳Linked below is a new paper lead by my colleague @stephanopteryx.bsky.social ! I am so happy to share this with everyone - see post below for more details!
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
May 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
This is a ton of work and beautiful anatomy - huge congrats to @jaimiagray.bsky.social and team!
Check it out! 🧪⚒️🪶🦎🐊
Check it out! 🧪⚒️🪶🦎🐊
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
April 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is a ton of work and beautiful anatomy - huge congrats to @jaimiagray.bsky.social and team!
Check it out! 🧪⚒️🪶🦎🐊
Check it out! 🧪⚒️🪶🦎🐊
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“This is a crisis,” said Jim Kirkland, state paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey. “And one of my jobs is to attract attention to this so we can save as much of it as we can.”
‘This is a crisis’: A southern Utah city is set to build a power station on top of a premier dinosaur fossil site
Crews racing to excavate premier Utah dinosaur site before construction begins on power substation
www.sltrib.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Researchers at MIT turned a skin cell into a neuron without having to go through that pesky intermediate stem cell step. Truly incredible.
news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...
news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...
MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
MIT researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuri...
news.mit.edu
March 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Researchers at MIT turned a skin cell into a neuron without having to go through that pesky intermediate stem cell step. Truly incredible.
news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...
news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...
Looks like a really cool and beautiful game! 🧪⚒️
We’ve utterly smashed all of our expectations with the Kickstarter and are just about to hit £110k! We’ve still only really just started too 🤯
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
#dnd #dnd5e #dinosaur #dinosaurs #scicomm #science #paleontology
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
#dnd #dnd5e #dinosaur #dinosaurs #scicomm #science #paleontology
Professor Primula's Portfolio of Palaeontology
A palaeontology-themed roleplaying supplement
www.kickstarter.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looks like a really cool and beautiful game! 🧪⚒️
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Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.
March 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.
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Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
Reposted by Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
A really cool collection of the latest and greatest in bird lung research!
Bird lungs are super weird, check it out!
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Bird lungs are super weird, check it out!
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Pleased to announce the publication of a special theme issue I co-edited with Dr. John Maina of the University of Johannesburg in Philosophical Transactions on avian respiratory biology!! There are three contributions from our team, and all are OA! 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1920
royalsocietypublishing.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A really cool collection of the latest and greatest in bird lung research!
Bird lungs are super weird, check it out!
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Bird lungs are super weird, check it out!
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