Chris Widga

If I could go back and take the perfect MSc, this would be it

Has anthropogenic warming prevented the next glacial cycle? 🧊🔥 Yes, it has. After shrinking throughout much of the early-/mid-Holocene, the LIS began to grow again around 2 ka, but then began shrinking once more around 1960 due to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bennett D. Davenport, Randall B. Irmis & Alexandra L. Norwood (2026) Ecology, environment, and morphology: their relationships to carbon isotope variability in mammalian herbivores Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 114289 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quarry Hole Jean Watson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1884-1982 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ca 1940 | oil on canvas board https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4144 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

The hobbit book is finally real and you can preorder it, which feels completely wild. Coming August 2027.

I bet all the archaeology offices want a mastodon crushing their annual report. Yes. Do it. I'll be here. Talk to you soon. (and I'm really thrilled to be help with this one, the BLK mastodon).

Neville Island: Industry on the Ohio River Charles J. Taylor New York, New York 1885-1929 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Date unknown | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4371 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

Steel Works in Winter Roy Hilton Boston, Massachusetts 1891-1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Date unknown | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4277 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

See ya Denver. It's been nice. I'm glad that you have a bronze mastodon with appropriately sized chin tusks.

If you need me, I’ll be staring at this alligator gar scan all day. The fish was so big that I had to drive all the way to UT Austin to scan it. This particular animal has a tooth the grew straight through its skull

Fairview Avenue Charles Kermit Ewing Bentleyville, Pennsylvania 1910-1976 Bali, Indonesia | 1937 | oil on masonite https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4361 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

Joe Petko Frank L. Melega Diamond, Indiana 1905-1977 Brownville, Pennsylvania | Date unknown | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4367 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

The Quarry Inez Dunnick Smith Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 1902-1987 York, Pennsylvania | Date unknown | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4401 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

Rhythm of Structural Steel Alfred H. Bennett Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1891-1959 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1934 | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4323 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

I updated my concept map to include a branch for "social impacts" - including knowledge for worldviews, economic and resources, and environment and hazards. edinos.ca/geoheritage-...

See this one on exhibit at the Palmer museum of art for the next few months as part of America Works (www.palmermuseum.psu.edu/exhibition/a...)

Forging the Shaft: Hydraulic Forging Press Rose Ann McGary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1910-1959 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1936 | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4295 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

The 9th John Day Fossil Beds National Monument special issue paper is out!!! This time, Kelly Lubbers and I look at enamel band patterns on the chewing surfaces of beaver teeth. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A thoughtful, excellent write up by @richardconniff.bsky.social on the very sad situation @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social museum #paleontology #palaeontology #naturalhistory richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...

#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

🚨Job(s) Alert(s)🚨‼️at this link #Geology ⚒️🧪

The parch marks at Stonehenge are really good for seeing all the mucking about that’s gone on and why it might be considered as several superimposed monuments rather than a singular one.

@enog.bsky.social always has the best stream pics.

Welcome to #gomphtober2026 . Kicking things off is the lower jaw of Torynobelodon, a shovel-tusker found in Cherry County, Nebraska. On diaplay at the University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln. #fossilfriday #universityofnebraskastatemuseum #prehistoricnebraska #elephant

A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics by Benito & Steell. Read here: buff.ly/fJattSx This is the latest article in our collection of agenda-setting reviews in the systematics of major fossil groups - with many more articles coming soon! #FossilFriday

Burning Silica Brick Christian Jacob Walter Allegheny, Pennsylvania 1872-1938 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Date unknown | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4224 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

Dredging the Monongahela Carl August Walberg Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1893-1982 Roanoke, Virginia | ca 1935 | oil on canvas https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4403 #bsmuseums #artbot #pennstate

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