Welcome to Paleontology (and more)

I'm a scientist, and have been one my entire adult life (and for most of my childhood). I'm also an educator, although in my view you can't really be a scientist unless you're also educating people about science.

Way back in the Internet's Pleistocene I was also a blogger. I gradually moved onto Twitter and my blogging dried up. But with Twitter's demise, I've decided to start blogging again.

So, what should I write about? Being a scientist means being a life-long learner, and almost every day I learn something new about science or see a cool feature in a fossil that I haven't noticed before. Expect lots of pictures!

These days I work at the Western Science Center (WSC), a mid-size natural history museum in Hemet, California. I'll be talking a lot about my work for the museum, even though this is not an official museum blog and any opinions are my own. Moreover, as long as I work for WSC, any subscription fees I receive will be given to the museum to support research and education programs there.