Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
@keenanearly.bsky.social
Quaternary paleoecologist and general lover of learning who followed the obvious path of Medieval Literature to Zooarchaeology to Paleontology. Additional interests and identities abound.
Amazing new taphonomy resource from the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Kenya! Great for research and students!
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taphonomy.symbiota.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Amazing new taphonomy resource from the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Kenya! Great for research and students!
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
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
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform
@txgeosciences.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform
@txgeosciences.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
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/
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/
bss-appliedchemistry.u-bordeaux.fr
April 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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/
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/
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
Awesome opportunity for advanced undergrads or recent grads below! 👇👇👇
I'm hiring two upper-level undergraduates (or recent graduates) this August for a 3 week long PAID Smithsonian internship in Connecticut. We'll be visiting several archaeological collections to measure quahog clam shells!
Please share!
Apply here by March 1:
internships.si.edu/opportunity/...
Please share!
Apply here by March 1:
internships.si.edu/opportunity/...
Marine Historical Ecology and Zooarchaeology Internship
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internships.si.edu
January 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Awesome opportunity for advanced undergrads or recent grads below! 👇👇👇
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇
🚨📢 I am excited to announce the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center will support another paid Zooarchaeology Internship this summer from May 11 to July 18. Application deadline is March 3. More info here: crowcanyon.org/internships/. Feel free to DM with questions! 🏺🧪
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇
FABULOUS Instagram post by Dr. John Moretti (@stray_sabercat) on dire wolf “de-extinction”! Well put, Sir, well put. 👏🏼
April 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
FABULOUS Instagram post by Dr. John Moretti (@stray_sabercat) on dire wolf “de-extinction”! Well put, Sir, well put. 👏🏼
Amazing work, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @tsutatsuta.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and everyone else involved!
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...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Amazing work, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @tsutatsuta.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and everyone else involved!
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
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...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Me: Nothing is cuter than baby opossums.
Husband: What about baby skunks?
Me: Oo. Tricky.
Husband: What about baby skunks?
Me: Oo. Tricky.
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Me: Nothing is cuter than baby opossums.
Husband: What about baby skunks?
Me: Oo. Tricky.
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.
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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.
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
Now, *that's* what I call de-extinction!
Galapagos Crake has been recorded on the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in 190 years:
Galapagos Crake recorded on Floreana for first time in 190 years
Galapagos Crake has been recorded on the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in 190 years. The elusive rallid was last seen on the island by Charles Darwin as long ago as 1835 and was thought to have been driven to extinction there by invasive species. The discovery follows the eradicat...
bit.ly
April 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Now, *that's* what I call de-extinction!
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
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 🩻☢️🦴
April 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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 🩻☢️🦴
Awesome new resource for introducing zooarchaeology to kids! Fantastic educational resource that I’m so excited about!
Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own.
www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...
www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...
New Zooarchaeology Resource Pack - Archaeology for you
Zooarchaeologist, Clare Rainsford, and Michelle Feider from the University of York, have created a bumper resource pack of activity ideas based on zooarchaeology on behalf of the Young Archaeologistsr...
www.yac-uk.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Awesome new resource for introducing zooarchaeology to kids! Fantastic educational resource that I’m so excited about!
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!
April 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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!
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!
Rethinking dinosaur "blood vessels": A critical analysis - are we seeing what we think we're seeing in these famous fossils? (1/9)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/9
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/9
Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs
www.nature.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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!
Reposted by Erin M. Keenan Early, Ph.D. (she/her)
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). 🏺🧪
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.
www.livescience.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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.
February 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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.