Stephanie Drumheller
@uglyfossils.bsky.social
Studying the evolution of archosaurs and their behaviors, one ugly fossil at a time. she/her
For Halloween, I dressed up as the scariest thing I could imagine.
No, not the skeleton.
No, not the skeleton.
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For Halloween, I dressed up as the scariest thing I could imagine.
No, not the skeleton.
No, not the skeleton.
I'm not at #GSA2025, but some of my bask of little crocodiles went.
Here's undergraduate researcher Owen Singleton, presenting our research on reptile decomposition. I am sad to say that GSA does not support smell-o-vision technology, but I suspect the presentation was plenty gross without it.
Here's undergraduate researcher Owen Singleton, presenting our research on reptile decomposition. I am sad to say that GSA does not support smell-o-vision technology, but I suspect the presentation was plenty gross without it.
October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm not at #GSA2025, but some of my bask of little crocodiles went.
Here's undergraduate researcher Owen Singleton, presenting our research on reptile decomposition. I am sad to say that GSA does not support smell-o-vision technology, but I suspect the presentation was plenty gross without it.
Here's undergraduate researcher Owen Singleton, presenting our research on reptile decomposition. I am sad to say that GSA does not support smell-o-vision technology, but I suspect the presentation was plenty gross without it.
No big deal. It's not like I have an online exam scheduled for this week...
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
No big deal. It's not like I have an online exam scheduled for this week...
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
There's something slightly creepy about going through the hours of silent trailcam footage at our decomp experiment. Most of them don't end up recording anything (which makes you wonder what tripped the motion sensor in the first place), and then every once in a while, you get jump scared by a deer.
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There's something slightly creepy about going through the hours of silent trailcam footage at our decomp experiment. Most of them don't end up recording anything (which makes you wonder what tripped the motion sensor in the first place), and then every once in a while, you get jump scared by a deer.
Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.
I was sick all week, which has kind of derailed a lot of stuff. To play catch up, here I am in my office, chatting research with @boydpaleo.bsky.social and @mhouseholder.bsky.social while sewing patches on my eldest kid's gi ahead of his karate belt test tonight. #sciencemom
August 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I was sick all week, which has kind of derailed a lot of stuff. To play catch up, here I am in my office, chatting research with @boydpaleo.bsky.social and @mhouseholder.bsky.social while sewing patches on my eldest kid's gi ahead of his karate belt test tonight. #sciencemom
Now that I have received confirmation that my #SVP2025 abstract about reptile decomposition has been accepted as a talk, I went ahead and downloaded the most important graphic of my upcoming presentation:
August 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Now that I have received confirmation that my #SVP2025 abstract about reptile decomposition has been accepted as a talk, I went ahead and downloaded the most important graphic of my upcoming presentation:
A clerid beetle, visiting our crocodylian decomposition research site:
July 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A clerid beetle, visiting our crocodylian decomposition research site:
A colleague took a somewhat tasteful photo of my students (Hannah Maddox and Owen Singleton) and I looking over our current decomposition experiment.
I'm looking forward to sharing the research, but I recognize that the photos are a bit grim for general consumption.
I'm looking forward to sharing the research, but I recognize that the photos are a bit grim for general consumption.
June 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A colleague took a somewhat tasteful photo of my students (Hannah Maddox and Owen Singleton) and I looking over our current decomposition experiment.
I'm looking forward to sharing the research, but I recognize that the photos are a bit grim for general consumption.
I'm looking forward to sharing the research, but I recognize that the photos are a bit grim for general consumption.
After much waffling about whether I was going to attend, I've just submitted an abstract for SVP 2025 on the dinomummy team's ongoing nonsense. I guess that means I'm committed.
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
After much waffling about whether I was going to attend, I've just submitted an abstract for SVP 2025 on the dinomummy team's ongoing nonsense. I guess that means I'm committed.
Applied and basic science rely on one another, often in very unexpected ways. Hamstringing one will invariably hamstring the other. My bite mark work has been cited in the forensics literature. These papers cite my crocodylian death roll survey. Let us freaking cook.
May 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Applied and basic science rely on one another, often in very unexpected ways. Hamstringing one will invariably hamstring the other. My bite mark work has been cited in the forensics literature. These papers cite my crocodylian death roll survey. Let us freaking cook.
My husband interrupted me reading/reviewing a dissertation to give me Mothers' Day crepes.
Work/life balance? Never met her. 🤦♀️
Work/life balance? Never met her. 🤦♀️
May 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My husband interrupted me reading/reviewing a dissertation to give me Mothers' Day crepes.
Work/life balance? Never met her. 🤦♀️
Work/life balance? Never met her. 🤦♀️
Very geologically-themed start to the morning. 🧪
📸 Jake Benner UTK EEPS and @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social
📸 Jake Benner UTK EEPS and @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Very geologically-themed start to the morning. 🧪
📸 Jake Benner UTK EEPS and @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social
📸 Jake Benner UTK EEPS and @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social
My husband texted me yesterday with a middle-of-the-road herp ID request.
That? That there is a five alarm finger getter.
(Yes, it was successfully encouraged the rest of the way across the road. No, no fingers were gotten.)
That? That there is a five alarm finger getter.
(Yes, it was successfully encouraged the rest of the way across the road. No, no fingers were gotten.)
April 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My husband texted me yesterday with a middle-of-the-road herp ID request.
That? That there is a five alarm finger getter.
(Yes, it was successfully encouraged the rest of the way across the road. No, no fingers were gotten.)
That? That there is a five alarm finger getter.
(Yes, it was successfully encouraged the rest of the way across the road. No, no fingers were gotten.)
This robin has excellent taste in real estate.
(That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.)
📸 McClung Museum
(That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.)
📸 McClung Museum
April 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This robin has excellent taste in real estate.
(That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.)
📸 McClung Museum
(That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.)
📸 McClung Museum
I suppose the officially official post went out from the university, so I can share that I got a teaching award from the UT College of Arts and Sciences earlier this week:
April 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I suppose the officially official post went out from the university, so I can share that I got a teaching award from the UT College of Arts and Sciences earlier this week:
You can decide which of our food offerings for her defense snacks was more inappropriate: her dirt cake with gummy lizards and bugs or my lizard bread loaf with little sesame seed 'bugs' on top:
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You can decide which of our food offerings for her defense snacks was more inappropriate: her dirt cake with gummy lizards and bugs or my lizard bread loaf with little sesame seed 'bugs' on top:
My student Hannah Maddox defended her thesis on tegu decomposition today. I'm really excited about her work!
April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My student Hannah Maddox defended her thesis on tegu decomposition today. I'm really excited about her work!
Is it just me, or does the map in Tears of the Kingdom look like a pathology slide?
March 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Is it just me, or does the map in Tears of the Kingdom look like a pathology slide?
My oldest kid asked to do a fossil project for science fair this year. Because I'm me, I suggested a collector bias study. I'm sure @drjmchugh.bsky.social will be unsurprised to see that bulk collection yielded twice the diversity and an order of magnitude more fossils than other collection methods.
March 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My oldest kid asked to do a fossil project for science fair this year. Because I'm me, I suggested a collector bias study. I'm sure @drjmchugh.bsky.social will be unsurprised to see that bulk collection yielded twice the diversity and an order of magnitude more fossils than other collection methods.
Corporate needs you to find the difference between that headline and this Megamind clip:
March 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Corporate needs you to find the difference between that headline and this Megamind clip:
Today I am performing the most thrilling, intellectually stimulating, personally satisfying aspect of the entire scientific endeavor: formatting references and changing all my US English to UK spellings to conform with journal style requirements.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
March 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today I am performing the most thrilling, intellectually stimulating, personally satisfying aspect of the entire scientific endeavor: formatting references and changing all my US English to UK spellings to conform with journal style requirements.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
I'm having to actively fight off the urge to just disappear into the woods and become a cryptid.
March 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm having to actively fight off the urge to just disappear into the woods and become a cryptid.