About
Hi, I'm Timmy Li
I'm interested in paleontology and software engineering — and in what happens when they meet. I like reconstructing deep time from fragments, then asking what that archive of life says about where we came from, and how that story reaches past Earth into the rest of the sky.
I spent the summer of 2026 on UChicago Stones & Bones— a Field Museum practicum that starts in the collections in Chicago and ends on the high desert benches of southwestern Wyoming.
At In Stone Fossils Quarry near Fossil Butte, we split limestone from ancient Fossil Lake, looking for fish, plants, and whatever else the early Eocene left behind. The beds are about fifty-two million years old, and the preservation is sharp enough that fin rays and leaf veins still read cleanly against the matrix.
Contact
paleo@timmy.li