Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆
@stephanopteryx.bsky.social
Paleontologist 🦴⛏, functional morphologist 🦖🦜, @UF @UFVetMed Schachner lab postdoc 🩻🫁. She/hers #WomenInSTEM #oVertTCN #BirdAgenda
www.stephaniebaumgart.com
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www.stephaniebaumgart.com
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Co-authors Daniel Vidal and María Ciudad Real created 3D models of the dino mummy material using CT scans and photogrammetry - check them out on MorphoSource!
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Co-authors Daniel Vidal and María Ciudad Real created 3D models of the dino mummy material using CT scans and photogrammetry - check them out on MorphoSource!
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
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/...
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...
One of my favorite CT scans I helped make for #oVertTCN: a 5-day-old loggerhead shrike ate a tiny lizard! 🪶🧪🦎
How can we tell it's a lizard? Tail vertebrae in reptiles have chevrons for muscle attachment. Mammal tail bones don't have those.
CT scan available: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
How can we tell it's a lizard? Tail vertebrae in reptiles have chevrons for muscle attachment. Mammal tail bones don't have those.
CT scan available: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
November 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
One of my favorite CT scans I helped make for #oVertTCN: a 5-day-old loggerhead shrike ate a tiny lizard! 🪶🧪🦎
How can we tell it's a lizard? Tail vertebrae in reptiles have chevrons for muscle attachment. Mammal tail bones don't have those.
CT scan available: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
How can we tell it's a lizard? Tail vertebrae in reptiles have chevrons for muscle attachment. Mammal tail bones don't have those.
CT scan available: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus):
"Hop-and-Flap is also the basis for more intense response to ground predators; when performed in a group, results in a Popcorn Display."
I love bird locomotion/display terms! 🤣
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"Hop-and-Flap is also the basis for more intense response to ground predators; when performed in a group, results in a Popcorn Display."
I love bird locomotion/display terms! 🤣
🪶🧪
November 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus):
"Hop-and-Flap is also the basis for more intense response to ground predators; when performed in a group, results in a Popcorn Display."
I love bird locomotion/display terms! 🤣
🪶🧪
"Hop-and-Flap is also the basis for more intense response to ground predators; when performed in a group, results in a Popcorn Display."
I love bird locomotion/display terms! 🤣
🪶🧪
Haha, yes, it can be quite the problem. I think this FMNH bird is the worst I've seen, we didn't even bother trying to scan it when we saw how much shot was in that kingfisher specimen. 😂
(First pic: Daryl Coldren)
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(First pic: Daryl Coldren)
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November 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Haha, yes, it can be quite the problem. I think this FMNH bird is the worst I've seen, we didn't even bother trying to scan it when we saw how much shot was in that kingfisher specimen. 😂
(First pic: Daryl Coldren)
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(First pic: Daryl Coldren)
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Rule #1 of microCT scanning a (dead) bird specimen: no movement during a scan.
Awesome high-tech results need a selection of low-tech supplies: cut-up jugs and plastic tubes of all sizes, foam blocks, flower foam, ethefoam sheets, packing peanuts, tape, etc.
And yes, it looks ridiculous. 😂
🧪🪶⚒️
Awesome high-tech results need a selection of low-tech supplies: cut-up jugs and plastic tubes of all sizes, foam blocks, flower foam, ethefoam sheets, packing peanuts, tape, etc.
And yes, it looks ridiculous. 😂
🧪🪶⚒️
November 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Rule #1 of microCT scanning a (dead) bird specimen: no movement during a scan.
Awesome high-tech results need a selection of low-tech supplies: cut-up jugs and plastic tubes of all sizes, foam blocks, flower foam, ethefoam sheets, packing peanuts, tape, etc.
And yes, it looks ridiculous. 😂
🧪🪶⚒️
Awesome high-tech results need a selection of low-tech supplies: cut-up jugs and plastic tubes of all sizes, foam blocks, flower foam, ethefoam sheets, packing peanuts, tape, etc.
And yes, it looks ridiculous. 😂
🧪🪶⚒️
Hi everyone who recently joined!! I'm Stephanie, a postdoctoral researcher at UF College of VetMed in @paleofox.bsky.social's lab. My main interests are birds and pterosaurs and their weird lungs, but I also do plenty of CT scanning for other projects. Digging up fossils is fun too. 🧪🪶⚒️
November 7, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Hi everyone who recently joined!! I'm Stephanie, a postdoctoral researcher at UF College of VetMed in @paleofox.bsky.social's lab. My main interests are birds and pterosaurs and their weird lungs, but I also do plenty of CT scanning for other projects. Digging up fossils is fun too. 🧪🪶⚒️
Here goes nothing! 🤞🏻
Please make the time to vote today! While the president is an important position to vote for, there are also many other positions & amendments on the ballot affecting federal, state, and local policies.
Vote to honor those who fought to make it possible.
Please make the time to vote today! While the president is an important position to vote for, there are also many other positions & amendments on the ballot affecting federal, state, and local policies.
Vote to honor those who fought to make it possible.
November 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Here goes nothing! 🤞🏻
Please make the time to vote today! While the president is an important position to vote for, there are also many other positions & amendments on the ballot affecting federal, state, and local policies.
Vote to honor those who fought to make it possible.
Please make the time to vote today! While the president is an important position to vote for, there are also many other positions & amendments on the ballot affecting federal, state, and local policies.
Vote to honor those who fought to make it possible.
My good friend, the absurdly talented Grace Broderick, took this amazing photo of a shrike with a buggy snack on our 2022 Niger expedition and entered it in a photography competition - please vote for her! 🪶
Click the link & click the heart!
poty.lcegroup.co.uk/poty24/conte...
Insta: gkb_wildlife
Click the link & click the heart!
poty.lcegroup.co.uk/poty24/conte...
Insta: gkb_wildlife
January 21, 2024 at 4:30 PM
My good friend, the absurdly talented Grace Broderick, took this amazing photo of a shrike with a buggy snack on our 2022 Niger expedition and entered it in a photography competition - please vote for her! 🪶
Click the link & click the heart!
poty.lcegroup.co.uk/poty24/conte...
Insta: gkb_wildlife
Click the link & click the heart!
poty.lcegroup.co.uk/poty24/conte...
Insta: gkb_wildlife
Come join the Schachner and Reznikov labs at UF Vet Med! Two wonderful PIs are tackling effects of climate change in bird lung development and are looking to mentor an awesome PhD Student interested in development and morphology! Please share! 🐦⬛🫁🧪🪶⚒️
@paleofox.bsky.social
@paleofox.bsky.social
January 13, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Come join the Schachner and Reznikov labs at UF Vet Med! Two wonderful PIs are tackling effects of climate change in bird lung development and are looking to mentor an awesome PhD Student interested in development and morphology! Please share! 🐦⬛🫁🧪🪶⚒️
@paleofox.bsky.social
@paleofox.bsky.social
Crocs breathe with a hepatic piston instead of a diaphragm like mammals. But how can we tell how extinct animals breathe with just the bones preserved? My labmate, Andy Grand Pre, @paleofox.bsky.social, and colleagues figured it out in their latest paper! 🐊🫁🧪⚒️
peerj.com/articles/16542/
peerj.com/articles/16542/
December 23, 2023 at 5:37 PM
Crocs breathe with a hepatic piston instead of a diaphragm like mammals. But how can we tell how extinct animals breathe with just the bones preserved? My labmate, Andy Grand Pre, @paleofox.bsky.social, and colleagues figured it out in their latest paper! 🐊🫁🧪⚒️
peerj.com/articles/16542/
peerj.com/articles/16542/
On my way to #2023SVP! Excited to see everyone! 🦖🦕🥳
And get excited about cool pterosaur stuff I've been working on, Thurs 2:30pm!
And get excited about cool pterosaur stuff I've been working on, Thurs 2:30pm!
October 17, 2023 at 8:21 PM
On my way to #2023SVP! Excited to see everyone! 🦖🦕🥳
And get excited about cool pterosaur stuff I've been working on, Thurs 2:30pm!
And get excited about cool pterosaur stuff I've been working on, Thurs 2:30pm!
COVID + flu shots = ready for #SVP2023!
(Is my talk ready? Heheh... it'll be ready when it needs to be.)
(Is my talk ready? Heheh... it'll be ready when it needs to be.)
October 4, 2023 at 4:55 PM
COVID + flu shots = ready for #SVP2023!
(Is my talk ready? Heheh... it'll be ready when it needs to be.)
(Is my talk ready? Heheh... it'll be ready when it needs to be.)