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Julia McHugh
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Vertebrate Paleontologist at the Museums of Western Colorado. Nature photographer and owner of Earthly Exposures. Foster of Kittens. All opinions are my own.
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Julia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 20
I am a proud, unapologetically opinionated #WomanInScience!

I am Dr. Julia McHugh, a vertebrate paleontologist studying Jurassic faunas, taphonomy, & evolution. I work the spectrum from the field to college classrooms, museum exhibits, informal education, & research.
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Dear me... Hall 1 is intimidating to enter from the top... be careful, and please move down to accommodate others.

#2025SVP
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Airports are boring.

Bring a book!
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown reut.rs/43l1lIn
US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown
Airlines canceled more than 2,700 U.S. flights and delayed more than 10,000 on Sunday, the most disruptions on a single day since the U.S. government shutdown began.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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How we do a dessert table at the Dinosaur Journey Museum!

(With help from Flavors Grill!)
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says reut.rs/4oT9ifZ
Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the waters off the coast of the Mexican state of Baja California on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Fresh from Spoonflower in the nick of time... our #2025SVP poster!

Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session!

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November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Printed my in-flight reading material. Highlighter is on standby. #2025SVP
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The Princess of Thacia is a beautiful conclusion to all the War's Wake arcs...

Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character.

On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble:

amazon.com/dp/B0F3GB8PS4

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thacia-julia-mchugh/1148309786
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Happy Halloween Everyone!
a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
ALT: a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
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November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.
Man with a facehugger on his face. Man with a chestburster emerging from his chest.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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My new shirt.
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Decades of Drought Are Changing How Paleontologists Search for Fossils

As the planet gets hotter, relics of history are receding from view by Riley Black (restingdinoface.bsky.social)

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Decades of Drought Are Changing How Paleontologists Search for Fossils
As the planet gets hotter, relics of history are receding from view
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October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Now on Sale!

The Princess of Thacia
Final Book in the War's Wake Trilogy. Get your paperback or ebook copy today!

Amazon/Kindle
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR6F6918

B&N Nook
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The Princess of Thacia (War's Wake Book 3)
Amazon.com: The Princess of Thacia (War's Wake Book 3) eBook : McHugh, Julia: Kindle Store
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October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art
Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science

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The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this insightful opinion piece
www.openaccessgovernment.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Happy Establishment date Dinosaur National Monument! On this day in 1915 President W. Wilson created the monument to protect the Carnegie Quarry: “...an extraordinary deposit of Dinosaurian & other gigantic reptilian remains of the Juratrias period, which are of great scientific interest & value...”
October 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.
A skeletonized American alligator decomposing in a wood framed box
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The Florida Museum (FM) is hiring a full-time Registrar within the Department of Natural History. (Anthropology Focus)

www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0...
FLMNH Museum Registrar - Gainesville, FL 32611 - Indeed.com
University of Florida
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September 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Final round of proofing before the October 21 release of The Princess of Thacia!

Pre-order the eBook Now:
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September 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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It's always fun when you can put out some new skulls in the exhibit hall!

Taxa were chosen based on materials collected in western Colorado, housed at Museums of Western Colorado and BYU.

Skulls were fabricated by Gaston Design Inc and Triebold Paleontology Inc.
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Paleontologist to join our Cultural Resouces team.

This is a full-time, hybrid role that will report to our California teams and candidate should be Southern California based.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AECOM2/74400...
Senior Paleontologist
Company Description: Work with Us. Change the World.At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming s...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3InFngj #Paleosky 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows a conceptual illustration of the ‘Dinosaurs as Ecosystem Engineers’ hypothesis.
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Behold! The skull of Menisco-"WEEEEE!!"-sus

Cast made by Triebold Paleo.
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM