@VCLatVCU

Part of @WorldStudiesVCU & @VCUCHS, the Virtual Curation Laboratory specializes in 3-D scanning & printing of historic & archaeological objects & fossils.

 Richmond, Virginia
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Joined December 2013
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Is it real, or is it Memorex? Below is the 17th century Delftware salt cellar from 44IW0013. Above, courtesy of @VCLatVCU, is a 3D-printed and painted version of this artifact. Print your own version via @Sketchfab: tinyurl.com/3j3xkk94 #salt #3DPrinting
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Becky Humphrey and I in the Valley of Fire #WAVP
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Oh I’d love to go back!
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Archaeology field school students from @VCLatVCU visited Friday. They 3D-scanned a few artifacts in our collection, and we put them to work assisting us with a cleaning of our ham case. #fieldtripfriday #futuremuseumprofessionals
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Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper
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"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/wh…
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Despite being a year without landmark paleo docus, 2024 is a great year in terms of paleoart. Of all non-avian dinosaur-related finds in 2024 (newly-exhibited specimens + new papers), AT LEAST 98 feature accompanying paleoart (in-paper or in local/international news release)!
By Andrey Atuchin, accompanying announcement of new Teen Rex specimen in DMNS.

ALT By Andrey Atuchin, accompanying announcement of new Teen Rex specimen in DMNS.

By Anthony Hutchings, accompanying paper: Barker, C., Handford, L., Naish, D., Wills, S., Hendrickx, C., Hadland, P., Brockhurst, D., & Gostling, N.J. (2024). Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth‐based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methods. Papers in Palaeontology.

ALT By Anthony Hutchings, accompanying paper: Barker, C., Handford, L., Naish, D., Wills, S., Hendrickx, C., Hadland, P., Brockhurst, D., & Gostling, N.J. (2024). Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth‐based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methods. Papers in Palaeontology.

By Ye Jianhao (Somniosus insomnus), accompanying paper: Zhu, Z., Wu, J., You, Y., Jia, Y., Chen, C., Yao, X., … Xu, X. (2024). A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208

ALT By Ye Jianhao (Somniosus insomnus), accompanying paper: Zhu, Z., Wu, J., You, Y., Jia, Y., Chen, C., Yao, X., … Xu, X. (2024). A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208

By Davide Bonadonna, accompanying paper: Chiarenza A. A. (2024). The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Biology letters, 20(11), 20240392. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392

ALT By Davide Bonadonna, accompanying paper: Chiarenza A. A. (2024). The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Biology letters, 20(11), 20240392. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392

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#paleoart Pterosaurs
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おはようございます！ Good morning！ Buenos días！ Bonjour！ Egun on！ Bom dia！ 早安！
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Uploaded some giant ground sloth fossils to @sketchfab for #FossilFriday including the fragment of a Megalonyx skull, a megalonyx claw, a paramylodon osteogenesis, and a paramylodon claw, courtesy of collector Kevin Jones. Free to download
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That should say osteoderm…….. I lost my battle with autocorrect
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I roughly scaled Anna’s giant ground sloth sculptures to the same scale with respect to each other. From left to right: Eremotherium, Megalonyx, Paramylodon, and Nothrotheriops #FossilFriday
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Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q

More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures

The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

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Wow!! This is incredible!! 🐒
Sergio Almécija@AlmecijaSergio19 Dec 2024
"Primate Phenotypes:" 6,000+ 3D scans. Skeletons. Bones. MorphoSource. Go.Collect.Data! #openaccess Project description: nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
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December 13, 1640, birthday of British physician and naturalist Robert Plot. His "Natural History of Oxfordshire" (1677) features what is believed to be the first depiction of a #dinosaur bone... 🦴
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Just in time for #FossilFriday a wonderful print from the incomparable @MarkWitton
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本日はディノサン更新日で、デイノニクス回は37話、「バックヤードのトロム②」が公開されました！また先読み38話も更新されてますので、合わせてどうぞよろしくお願いします✨ kuragebunch.com/episode/2550…
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No suspects have been caught for stealing over $20,000 worth of electronics and priceless artifacts from the VCU curation lab. This is an ongoing case.  Read more here: commonwealthtimes.org/2024/1…

Priceless artifacts, technology stolen from VCU Curation Lab

Burglars stole over $20,000 worth of 3D printers and other electronics as well as priceless artifacts from the VCU Curation Lab at 911 W. Grace St. on Oct. 8. The case is ongoing as the police have...

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Everybody in the US (probably elsewhere as well) is doom scrolling the election. Engagement for non-election tweets is non-existent. Seems a good time to post this rare platinum print, hand-colored, of the Caracol at #ChichenItza taken in the early 1900s by Edward H. Thompson.
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The peace of nature does not reflect the turmoil of my mind
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