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Dr. Brendan Anderson
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Paleobiologist. evolution and paleoclimate. Coffee enthusiast. Snail evangelist. Visiting Professor @ SUNY Oneonta. Paleontological Research Institution Research Associate. Dartmouth, KU, Cornell alum. He/him. Opinions my own. https://www.brendan-anderson
Day191 of badly photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) seems very at home as a trilobite(Dipleura dekayi;PRI50318)

Donations still needed!
#JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed
#trilobiteTuesday 🧪⚒️
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
To read about the history of the Paleontological Research Institution's 1/2 million specimen modern mollusk collections, including many endangered or recently extinct species;

check out page 141 on of the Nautilus issue on the history of malacology collections 🦑🦪🐌

shellmuseum.org/wp-content/u...
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The winner of the 2025 @paleosoc.bsky.social Clash-of-the Clades was...
@sethf.bsky.social !

But Mollusks took "Most Money Raised;"

From a mollusk worker, good to see that both these important groups for modern paleobiology got to shine in their own way!

#molluskmonday #paleontology #fossils
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🧪Day190 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) proclaims You are now entering...the Turritellid zone, with Allmonia carniolica, a genus named for PRI's 4th director Warren Allmon #savePRI
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Day 189 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

We had a fossil named for PRI's 2nd director, so here is 1 from a paper by PRI's 3rd Peter Hoover; Fossil is Spiriferina alia, John is H. sapiens #SavePRI 🧪⚒️
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
(snail) Carrier has arrived
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I go with "snailevangelist" so I can spread the good news about the general awesomeness/ importance of snails and other mollusks to the amantellate (non-mollusk) masses.
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ok well that brings me back to getting things loaned out to the exhibit from collections which is a huge number of individual specimen photos to use as guidance for proper return when the temporary exhibit is taken down, which are literally the same as many above pics, so I'll leave you with this 🐌
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@franzanth.bsky.social's Campanile giganteum also needs a shout out, as the reconstruction for "largest ever snail"

These meter (3 ft) long contented filter feeders hung out in the warm seas of Eocene France. Real fossil of one on display in the case below is ~18 in long
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cone snails from the Marvelous Mollusks exhibit section on Mollusks and Medicine.
Cone snail venoms are being researched for medicinal use, with some painkiller drugs already on the market. Freshwater snails are also notable disease vectors

Learn more: www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A ~2 ft specimen of a modern snail, Syrinx aruanus, the Australian Trumpet, in the Marvelous Mollusks exhibit
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Some Marvelous Mollusks exhibit snails
Come visit at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY or check out the online version (link here is direct to gastropods!)
www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From my sister, walk for your lives!

(although if the snails movement speed scales perfectly with size its probably barreling down on them at 10-11 miles per hour)
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Petaloconchus floridanus and Chicoreus shirleyae specimens removed from Paleontological Research Institution collections for digitization for an accepted manuscript I worked on.
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Teachers going through free materials at teacher resource day at PRI, dominated by mollusks, mostly snails
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A knight cowering in fear of a snail in medieval manuscript marginalia
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Paleoteria card for gastropods, which of course is a stylized turritellid
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A "turritella" at a rock sales place at GSA from almost 200 million years before Turritellids existed. Loxonematid?
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Fossil snails from the Marvelous Mollusks exhibit that show their color patterns under UV light, but not in ambient light
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Starting most recent

Saer Snail, the dice tower I got yesterday for D&D
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Snails 🐌 ! a 🧵 of snail pics on my phone as a snail paleontologist.

Turritella cooperi

Excluded: videos, John Oliver save PRI posts, pics of snails with lots od not snails.
BTW, donating to PRI is definitely in the realm of "save the snails", lots of snail history there, 1 mil+ 🐌specimens
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Day 188 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with a Leptopecten gilbertharrisi, named for PRIs founder, who didn't trust Cornell to value his science/collections 👀 #SavePRI
#Cornell ⚒️🦑🧪
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Day 187 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

What could be more relaxing than having a glass of wine with a sympathetic snail(Loxonema)?
#fossilfriday #savePRI #johnolivercoprolitasticshed 🧪 #savescience
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Day 186 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Our microphones aren't as fancy as at #LastWeekTonight, but John (H. sapiens) could get used to an Exogyra cancellata(PRI45547) setup
#SavePRI 🦑 #science 🦪⚒️
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thanks for your support! There is a membership tier that let's you get publications and another one focused around the plush paleozoic pals/gift shop items for those out of town!
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM