Chester Lab @ BROOKLYN

It was really great talking with Senator Schumer @SenSchumer on Friday! We discussed the @BklynCollege411 Tow Mentoring & Research Program and our @NSF funded research on primate origins, the K/Pg mass extinction, and global warming!

Happy #FossilFriday! This morning we received notifications that our #SVP2023 abstracts were accepted, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Cincinnati this coming October!

Happy #FossilFriday! We're happy to have @gpwilson11 here in Brooklyn helping us figure out all these Paleocene mammals @BklynCollege411 undergraduates helped collect in Montana over the years!

Happy Fossil Friday! We're having another great week at @ucmpberkeley studying early primate evolution thanks to funding from @TheLeakeyFndtn. And here's our daily reminder why primates and other placental mammals should really appreciate asteroids...🦖🌠🐒

Happy #FossilFriday! With the help of @BklynCollege411 undergraduate and @GC_CUNY graduate students, we're using three-dimensional geometric morphometric (3DGM) methods to study @ucmpberkeley fossils of the oldest known primate relative Purgatorius! @gpwilson11 @TheLeakeyFndtn

Happy #FossilFriday! Hard to believe it's been 10 years since we published a systematic revision of the plesiadapiform family Micromomyidae! Here's a hypothesis of micromomyid interrelationships through time with scaled images of the lower fourth premolar of each species.

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this new episode of the @PBS @EonsShow summarizing our 2022 study published in @ScienceMagazine led by @OrnellaBertrand on the evolution of the mammalian brain! @BklynCollege411 @GC_CUNY @TheRealNYCEP @CUNY @CUNYResearch youtube.com/watch?v=zM340uHn…

Thanks to @NSF funding, we've upgraded our setup! New computer ✅ New 3D visualization software ✅ New fossil scan data ✅. In collaboration with @CrowellJW @jibloch @Mary_T_Silcox, here's a new, very high-resolution scan of a plesiadapiform cranium! Happy #FossilFriday to all!

CONGRATULATIONS to @ManicaNawaz!!!, MS candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences @cunybcees @BklynCollege411, who was accepted to pursue a PhD focused on sedimentology and coastal geomorphology @BostonCollege next year!!!

Thanks to @ucmpberkeley for the opportunity to present our @TheLeakeyFndtn funded research on plesiadapiforms and primate origins at the Fossil Coffee session today!