Madelaine Walker

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Madelaine Walker

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It’s nice to meet you!

I am an anthropology PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota.
My interests revolve around diet, life history, and environment, and what they can tell us about primate paleobiology. I am developing dissertation research related to comparative life histories in Early Miocene catarrhines.
Outside of school, I write freelance blog content for software companies, work as an interpretive guide at my university’s natural history museum, and create anthropology-related illustrations.
As an academic, I want to prioritize creativity, communication, and outreach in my work and I’m always looking for opportunities to collaborate.

My Work

Communication & Outreach

As an academic, one of my biggest priorities is making time for scientific outreach and communications. I enjoy sharing what I've learned with others through art, writing, k-5 workshops, or social media.
Learn more about my workshops!

Illustrations

I love to doodle and am always looking for ways to incorporate my illustrations into science communication projects. I also love creating marketing assets for local businesses and community organizations.
I sell art prints, stickers, and needle felted trinkets on my etsy shop here.

Copywriting

I regularly write blog content for multiple B2B clients related to workplace training software and the hospitality industry.
Check out my personal writing sample on Medium or contact me for more information!

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Okay, SVP is really fun 🦖

#societyofvertebratepaleontology #SVP2024

Now that I'm starting to work on my dissertation, I keep thinking about the time I saw Jane Goodall's extremely thick dissertation in person 📖

I might need to frame this photo to keep for motivational purposes.

#janegoodall#dissertationwriting #ph

Happy almost Halloween! Here are some nice jack o'lantern mushrooms 🎃

(These guys are often confused for chanterelles, but they are ❌ not edible ❌ so always do some homework if you're thinking about foraging)

#jackolanternmushrooms #omphalotusillu

Big October presentation 2/3 done ✔️

Today, I gave my first real in-class lecture, which felt like a bigger deal to me than the usual TA duties. Public speaking makes me super nervous even though it's a requirement for pretty much all of my profess

Not a fungus! This is wolf's milk, a common type of slime mold with pretty pink, blobby fruiting bodies that grow on dead trees. Also, a 🐸

#slimemoldsaturday #minnesotamushrooms #wolfsmilk #lycogalaepidendrum

Meet the Tully Monster, the state fossil of Illinois!

They were soft-bodied marine invertebrates that researchers think had fun googly eyes on stalks and an extending claw-snoot.

These guys lived during the Pennsylvanian period, about 300 million

I'm getting all my ducks in a row for the upcoming SVP meetings in mpls! I'll be presenting my first conference poster on a project that's been moving along (sloooowly) since the summer before my first year 💀 ((I've done some stable isotope analyses