Nick Smith

New OA paper! A diverse brittle star (Ophiuroidea: Echinodermata) fauna from the Upper Mississippian (Serpukhovian) of Sulphur, Indiana, USA, and its implications for late Paleozoic brittle star biodiversity-doi.org/10.1017/jpa.20… @Sumrall_Lab @UTK_EEPS

🐸‼️New paper exploring the future of the fossil record from @UCMPberkeley and @berkeleyIB graduate students Kat Magoulick @KMagoulick and Ryan Yohler @the_rock_hobbit and Isaac Krone! Check it out! #fossils #paleontology #tetrapods #amphibians

🚨🚨 New paper on how rates of niche evolution / trait change affect diversification rates @NatureEcoEvo🚨🚨Check it out here: rdcu.be/dyZ1B

Check out this new paper: EPS's Dr. Stephanie Drumheller is an author in a new book chapter titled "Paleodiversity and Niche Partitioning of Crocodyliforms from the Woodbine Group (Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian)." Check out the new chapter here: tiny.utk.edu/7wr2c

Finished the written portion of my PhD qualifying exams last night. Now to wait for the word if I move on to the oral exams. #396daysuntilDrSmith

@PaleoJB @NSF @UMichPaleo @sarahlsheffield @ForamWhisperer @FossilDetective Darn! I’m bad with time periods, but honestly if it isn’t a rhenopyrgid or isorophid I’m not getting very far. (If it is one of those then I really stink 🤣)

@nick_smith_28 @NSF @UMichPaleo @sarahlsheffield @ForamWhisperer @FossilDetective Very close Nick!!! ✅ group = edrioasteroids ✅ feature = anal pyramid ❌ time period is not Cambrian ⭐️⭐️

🤔#WhatIsItWednesday...? #PaleoEchino @NSF grant at @UMichPaleo should be a good starting hint... ⭐️ if you get the specific group ⭐️⭐️ + if you get the prominent feature ⭐️⭐️⭐️ + if you get species & time period

@paulharnik @PaleoJB @echinoblog @maggie_limbeck I have only dabbled briefly with echinoid bits with my work on brittle star bits and I believe you can get a general sense of genera but that’s about as far as it can go. @maggie_limbeck would definitely be the better expert here.

Oh! And this course is geared more toward an environmental science and the class demographics is mostly business and other non-science majors.

Looking for group based activity that can be done with approx 100 students in large lecture format with deliverables or something that they can turn in for credit. Any ideas!? Help!?

Twitter friends!! I am teaching my first lecture this semester and need to fill in a few days. I am looking for ideas on a Anthropocene based activity/discussion assignment that I can do in class. I have the ability to teach an activity during an entire 50 minute class period.

He was joined by a group of paleo students and faculty and the team ultimately collected Ordovician and Devonian brachiopods and other marine inverts as well.

EPS grad student, @nick_smith_28, lead a trip to collect #fossils from the Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation of W TN for his dissertation work over the weekend.

In honor of #FossilFriday, check out this recent publication coauthored by EPS graduate student @nick_smith_28 and @Sumrall_Lab on brittle star #fossils from the Carboniferous: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar…

@sarahlsheffield I wonder if it’s more of a stigma that they think there are no jobs in the paleo sector so it automatically makes them think paleo is, for lack of better words, not want they want to do? But yes, I’ve heard this in many different iterations. 😭

It always makes me sad because I try hard to make the class skill based so we're learning PCA, stats, graphing, scicomm, all transferrable skills. Are we still learning stereotypes that paleo isn't a "hard" science? Do students feel more OK saying this to me bc of my gender/age?

Do other paleontologists get told constantly by students that they hate learning paleo and it's useless for them because they want to do hydro/ volcanology / structure/etc? It seems so weird to me bc my class is heavily based in stats/skills over memorization of fossil facts...

A very nice and accessible blog post by Phil Novack-Gottshall about the implications about air recent paper in @NatureEcoEvo ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/fossil-f…

Check out this new paper, coauthored by EPS's @Sumrall_Lab and graduate student @nick_smith_28, on ecological innovation in early echinoderms: nature.com/articles/s4155…

@StephenAHill2 I took my one off day to try and write grants since they are due in like 3 weeks….outcome = nada

TRIPODING! #ECHINODAY

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