Dr. Gussie Maccracken she/her

@paleogabriella @NSF @FabianyHerrera @DiggingDinos So stinking excited!!!!

Major #FossilFriday update! My @NSF #PRFB was recommended for funding! Can’t wait to investigate the floristic composition & fruit/seed morphologies of the anomalous early Paleocene Castle Rock (CO, USA) “rainforest” @FabianyHerrera @DiggingDinos @Gussie_Mac

🚨Paper alert🚨 Our work on late Cenozoic climate structuring foram communities is out in @Nature Was a wholesome experience working with @foradamifera (who explains the paper beautifully in thread below) @macromicropaleo @OrbulinasDad & BillFagan @UMDscience #networks #climate

@RachelJabaily Thank you and that would be fantastic! I’m always happy to give tours of the collections. We also do fieldwork near the Springs and your class is welcome to come dig fossil leaves!

Thrilled to announce my new role as Curator of Paleobotany at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science!@DenverMuseumNS #WomenInSTEM #paleobotany #Denver dmns.org/about/catalyst…

Not only is this my dream career, but I also get to work with amazing people and to care for one of the best paleobotanical collections on Earth. Thanks to everyone who inspired and guided me along the way 💚

Bugs make up 90% of all animal species on Earth, yet few of us know how essential and powerful they really are. Discover how their adaptations are inspiring solutions to some of our most complex problems in “Bugs,” opening 3/10. dmns.mobi/bugs #bugsatDMNS

@RadioGondwana @PSUEMS Congratulations Peter!!!

Very honored to join this group with two others from @psuems and several fantastic paleo colleagues. Thank you to all the colleagues, students, and admins who support and motivate all of us, every day.

this aspect of southern politics will never stop blowing my mind

😍 The Fossil Flowers That Rewrote the History of Life newyorker.com/science/elemen… via @NewYorker

White dudes try to kill a young boy #merrychristmas

My husband (not an American citizen by birth) and I were trying to find a great Christmas movie and I recommended Home Alone. It took us 10 minutes to realize that he thought Home Alone was The Shining. Merry Christmas. #homealone #theshining #christmas #holidays #holidaymovies

Isabel Clifton Cookson, the first Australian palynologist, was born #OTD, 1893. The genus Cooksonia, one of the first land plants, was named in her honor. wp.me/p3ihHu-E7 #WomeninSTEM #histsci #Paleobotany

World population just hit 8 billion. There were 2 billion people in 1929, the year my mom was born. So the planet’s population has quadrupled in 93 years.

Hot off the presses, new research by Dr. Azevedo Schmidt comparing modern and ancient insect herbivory in #PNAS! #WomenInSTEM apple.news/A4dmXb_5zSbKYa…

Congratulations Drs. Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab and Conrad Labandeira @NMNH, Schuchert Medalist and Paleo Society Medalist! @PaleoSoc

@RadioGondwana @psuarboretum @PSUEMS @PSUEarth @PSUGeoscience @penn_state @CuratorForScale

PaleoPumpkins by my Earth150 class are rocking PumpkinFest @psuarboretum ! Dunkleosteus 1/n

I started this project as a #NHRE intern in 2018 @NMNH with Scott Wing and Rich Barclay while I was an undergrad @DrewUniversity, so it’s great to *finally* see it all together. Here’s me as a baby intern with Rich (left) and @scottlwing (right)

I’m very happy to announce that my very first paper is out now in GCA! In essence: The C3 plant paleo-CO2 proxy doesn’t work for Ginkgo, and we shouldn’t expect it to work for a lot of other plants. A 🧵... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…