Kat Jordan
@invertlovekat.bsky.social
Postdoc, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Invertebrates need more love
Give me old seas
Invertebrates need more love
Give me old seas
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"Yes contributing to environmental catastrophes and extinction is scary, but what else are we going to do? Write our own emails? Learn math? Create art? Speak to other humans?!"
September 9, 2026 at 10:35 PM
"Yes contributing to environmental catastrophes and extinction is scary, but what else are we going to do? Write our own emails? Learn math? Create art? Speak to other humans?!"
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🚨 PS SHORT COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GSA 2026
October 10th (location TBD)
A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions.
Description in comment below!
October 10th (location TBD)
A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions.
Description in comment below!
August 30, 2026 at 9:36 PM
🚨 PS SHORT COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GSA 2026
October 10th (location TBD)
A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions.
Description in comment below!
October 10th (location TBD)
A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions.
Description in comment below!
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Hey Paleo Folks! Rowan Lockwood (PS President) sent me this description of the Paleobotany short course at this year's GSA.
“A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Attendees will be trained to make measurements…
“A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Attendees will be trained to make measurements…
August 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Hey Paleo Folks! Rowan Lockwood (PS President) sent me this description of the Paleobotany short course at this year's GSA.
“A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Attendees will be trained to make measurements…
“A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Attendees will be trained to make measurements…
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🌈 Diversity makes our community stronger
The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
June 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
🌈 Diversity makes our community stronger
The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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This week, we are starting our first #PaleoArt Highlight! 🎨
This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊
🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway
✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer
This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊
🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway
✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer
April 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
This week, we are starting our first #PaleoArt Highlight! 🎨
This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊
🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway
✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer
This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊
🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway
✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer
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I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
We are looking for 6 motivated Postdocs interested in various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
#geochemistry
#geochemistry
Earth System Research and Training at FAU
fau-earth-system-science.github.io
March 13, 2026 at 10:36 AM
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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⚡Applications for Paleontological Society Student Representative (2026-2028) are open! ⚡ @paleosoc.bsky.social
It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.
forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...
It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.
forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...
Nominations for Student Representative to the Paleontological Society (2026-2028)
The deadline for consideration is March 1, 2026.
The Role: Student Representatives serve as voices for student needs in the Society and play leading roles in student activities including organizing...
forms.gle
February 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
⚡Applications for Paleontological Society Student Representative (2026-2028) are open! ⚡ @paleosoc.bsky.social
It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.
forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...
It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.
forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...
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ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure
Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.
www.ithaca.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 AM
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
I love a description of preservation as "a fine trilobite hash". Really captures the frustration of having smashed trilo bits
December 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I love a description of preservation as "a fine trilobite hash". Really captures the frustration of having smashed trilo bits
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Semi-infaunal squid?
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
www.livescience.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Semi-infaunal squid?
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
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keep ai slop out of scientific journals
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
keep ai slop out of scientific journals
@sethf.bsky.social do you feel honored or just surprised? Hahaha
The winner of Clash of the Clades: a new taxon, Finnegan-ada! Fear not, mollusk lovers, your clade raised the most money! Thank you all who participated in this wild and wacky fundraiser. We appreciate all who donated and cast their vote! 👑
#paleontology #geology #geosciences
#paleontology #geology #geosciences
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
@sethf.bsky.social do you feel honored or just surprised? Hahaha
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Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory
www.cambridge.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction
Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.
www.newyorkupstate.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
💅💅💅💅
Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
@peterjwagner3.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I’m really happy to see Kat’s first dissertation chapter published! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global evolutionary relationships of Devonian proetide trilobites | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
Global evolutionary relationships of Devonian proetide trilobites
www.cambridge.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
💅💅💅💅
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Ok, I finally saw the Jurassic World movie. No notes… except maybe more Dunkelosteus content… and maybe don’t say there’s more oxygen in the tropics…ok lots of notes 🤣🤣🤣 #paleontology
a close up of a toy dinosaur with sharp teeth standing in front of a fence .
ALT: a close up of a toy dinosaur with sharp teeth standing in front of a fence .
media.tenor.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Ok, I finally saw the Jurassic World movie. No notes… except maybe more Dunkelosteus content… and maybe don’t say there’s more oxygen in the tropics…ok lots of notes 🤣🤣🤣 #paleontology
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Submit your research to a Paleo Society-sponsored session at @geosociety Connects 2025 in San Antonio! This year we have 30 paleo sessions, and today we’re featuring paleocology related sessions. 🦕🌴
Submit your abstract by August 5th!
#Paleo #Geoscience #Geology #gsaconnects2025
Submit your abstract by August 5th!
#Paleo #Geoscience #Geology #gsaconnects2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Submit your research to a Paleo Society-sponsored session at @geosociety Connects 2025 in San Antonio! This year we have 30 paleo sessions, and today we’re featuring paleocology related sessions. 🦕🌴
Submit your abstract by August 5th!
#Paleo #Geoscience #Geology #gsaconnects2025
Submit your abstract by August 5th!
#Paleo #Geoscience #Geology #gsaconnects2025
Are you going to GSA 2025 and have a cool phylogenetic or computational study you want to talk about? Consider submitting to our session T159 "Phylogenetic and Computational Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology"! We would love to have you! #GSA2025 #paleontology #phylogenetics
July 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are you going to GSA 2025 and have a cool phylogenetic or computational study you want to talk about? Consider submitting to our session T159 "Phylogenetic and Computational Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology"! We would love to have you! #GSA2025 #paleontology #phylogenetics
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Blue isopods with ribbons🎀
May 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Blue isopods with ribbons🎀
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Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
In killing grants, NSF appears to follow Ted Cruz’s blueprint
Senator’s report targeted up to $2 billion for diversity, climate change, and misinformation research
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I’m in DC at the Smithsonian this week. Any recommendations on food and other places to check out?
April 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m in DC at the Smithsonian this week. Any recommendations on food and other places to check out?
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Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚
Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!
More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...
Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!
More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...
April 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚
Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!
More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...
Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!
More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...