PhD Student at Virginia Tech |#vertpaleo | #womeninstem | 🐊🦖🦕 she/her/hers

Blacksburg, VA
Joined April 2020
Soooooo I’m a doctor now? Thanks to everyone who attended help me out with the awesome project ❤️🐊#phytosaurs
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Soooooo it’s happening! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation next week, April 23rd @ 9:30am EST- if you would like to attend (in person or via zoom) to learn about #phytosaurs and some #crocodylians please send a DM for more details
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It’s here and it’s real 🤩 the 4th chapter of my dissertation is out! doi.org/10.1111/joa.14185 Do you want to know how the tiniest phytosaurs grow? Check out the histology of the tiniest phytosaur femur! @VTechmeetsPaleo @NotThatMarsh @chinleana @danny_oolithus
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So excited to be able to publish this work in the @JournalofAnat special issue on #paleohistology with awesome editors @PolishPaleo and @funstonpaleo
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Erika R Goldsmith retweeted
Help us reach our goal and donate to the 30th GSRS here: crowdfund.vt.edu/project/443… 10 days left to donate!
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Erika R Goldsmith retweeted
Come by my poster 328 this afternoon to learn about how microfossils can be useful for inferring functional traits!!! 🦎🐊
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If you see me at SVP please say hello! I love talking fishes/fossils.
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At #SVP2024 in Minneapolis!! If you are interested in #phytosaurs and #osteohistology come to my talk on Saturday at 2pm in the SVP SATURDAY SPECTACULAR!
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Also! Want more #phytosaurs and #histology? Stop by B172 TODAY to see some awesome histology of a phytosaur jaw done by one of VT’s recently graduated - Lina McCloskey (she’s looking to apply to grad school!!!)
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Erika R Goldsmith retweeted
Excited to be talking about a new species of Saurichthys and an unexpected toothy twist on Thursday at 3 at SVP! Come celebrate Halloween with the horrors of fish teeth.
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What was Salterella and what can it’s unique morphology teach us about early animal shell evolution? Come found out at my #GSA2023 talk on Sunday at 8:50 in room 304/305.
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If you are attending GSA this year, here is a table showing when several affinity group meetups will be happening (they should all be findable in the program as well)
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Abstract for SICB in Seattle accepted! Really excited to talk to biologists about a 300 million year old fish with strange jaws and the evolution of extreme diversity in ray-finned fishes! Any other attendees please reach out I need conference buddies.
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Abstract was accepted so SICB 2024 here I come! If you wanna hear about some of the things I’ve been up to lately, come see my talk on Saturday, Jan. 6!!! #phytosaurs #histology #SICB2024
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A little hint and sneak peak on what I’ll be chatting about at #SVP2023! Thanks SO MUCH @histo_holly for letting me use your AMAZING SETUP!!!
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