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This Monday I'll have finished my final exam for my 2nd year of Natural Sciences with @openuniversity.bsky.social , & very much on the lookout for things to do over the summer. If anyone needs hands in museums, palaeo, natural history, scicomm etc., let me know if I can help ❤️ #Science #STEM

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A new mid-sized pareiasaur from the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China & implications for the phylogenetic relationships of pareiasaurs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The University of Birmingham is celebrating its 125 year anniversary this year & palaeontology has been here from the start. This article highlights the palaeo legacy of Birmingham: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ce...

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Excited to share our new research in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬🧪 @lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Direct evidence of carnivory in the early-diverging Alvarezsaurian Bannykus www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/...

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Pleased to have played a small part in this paper, led by @aminff.bsky.social Amin El Fassi El Fehri, describing “A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish #dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between #Devonian and #Carboniferous dipnoans” out today in @peerj.bsky.social 🦷🐟 peerj.com/articles/193...

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Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD published today in @peerj.bsky.social on a wonderful lungfish tooth plate from Morocco 🐟🦷! With @draliceclement.bsky.social, @merlegreif.bsky.social, & colleagues. peerj.com/articles/193...

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I am still strongly searching for a paleontology job in academia or institutions. If you know anything… please help 🥲

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Current mood

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Coming soon, to a DinoCon near you! (I am a vendor at @dinoconuk.bsky.social this year, and will be selling a range of 3D printed dinosaur skeleton models, among other things)

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A 2023 illustration of a nocturnal #Shuvuuia hunting for invertebrates in deadwood, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton ( ‪@princetonupress.bsky.social‬ ). #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt

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Calling all #JurassicPark fans! 📣 This week's guest, paleoartist Mark Hallett, provided an exclusive ✨️never before seen✨️ piece of Jurassic Park concept art for the famous T.rex 🦖 attack scene! 🔊 Listen to episode #86 and view more of Mark's art on our website: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mark...

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🚨 New paper published! We report multiple cases of osteomyelitis (bone infection) in sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. The fossils show different patterns of reactive bone growth, but no healing — the infections were active when they died. 🧪⚒️ 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

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Information on workshops for #2025SVP #SVP2025 now available on the SVP website: there will be one on scientific graphic design run by @graphicssci.bsky.social & one on British palaeoart run by @markwitton.bsky.social! vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...

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Don’t forget that the abstract deadline for #2025SVP #SVP2025 is tomorrow! vertpaleo.org/abstract-sub...

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31 million year old Alligator prenasalis from South Dakota. 🐊 #fossilfriday

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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Eileen Straube (‪@eileenstraube.bsky.social‬‬) from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)

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Staff Scientist - Victoria, Canada - www.earthworks-jobs.com/marine/victo... - #jobs #scientist #marinescience #oceanography #marine #biodiversity #benthic #pelagic #coastal #deepsea #ecosystems #ecology

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The Rev William Fox from #IsleofWight who had more dinosaurs named after him than any British person. Here prepping a sauropod vertebra. He wrote to Richard Owen in 1869 “I cannot leave this place while I have any money left to live on I take such deep interest in hunting old dragons” #FossilFriday

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Where I study has its own museum reopened! Located in the Geosciences Institute of University of São Paulo! 🦖😄 saopaulosecreto.com/en/usp-geosc...

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NEW WORMS phys.org/news/2025-05...

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Let's continue National Snail Day Shellebrations with the snails in short series, where I collaborated with @franzanth.bsky.social 🐌🦑 #nationalsnailday first up some snail basics

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Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @stephanopteryx.bsky.social & @paleofox.bsky.social w/ Jason Bourke & ‪‪@rockjock80.bsky.social‬‬: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.

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Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

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Bird nesting in the Cretaceous! This is the illustration I did for a new paper by Lauren Wilson and colleagues that is published TODAY in Science The new paper describes an assemblage of fossils that includes both chicks and adults from multiple species of Late Cretaceous birds! #paleoart #birds

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Welcome to #JeholWeek! Suggested by @cascoclauda.bsky.social, this week will be full of facts about one of the Mesozoic's most notable Lagerstätte (place of exceptional fossil preservation). This thread about a fantastic glimpse into Early Cretaceous life in East Asia will expand all week!

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Good Skiphosoura Hunting

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#FossilFriday‼️ 😲 Remarkably large (~20" or 50 cm) ammonite from an Alabama creek exposing Upper Cretaceous sediments. The specimen is still underwater in this photo (see tadpoles 🐸). Specimen @almnh.bsky.social. Discovered by George Martin. #paleontology #fossil #Alabama

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Hi friends! The first in a series of articles I wrote about bringing the dinosaurs in WWD to life is out - this one is on Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

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Thrilled to see our work on sloth evolution finally published @science.org! Huge thanks to Alberto Boscaini and Daniel Casali for bringing me on board for such a fascinating project! 🦥 #evolution #paleontology #paleobiology

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New ankylosaurid material from the Lower Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province [new taxon Zhongyuansaurus junchangi] gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxb/articl...

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Can I just say how ✨️excited✨️ I am to be meeting so many of you at the Lyme Regis Fossil Fest?! Not only will it be my first time overseas, but I've dreamed of going to England and specifically to Lyme Regis 🐚 because of my SHEro, Mary Anning⚡️. Please say hi 👋 if you see me! fossilfestival.com

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Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy. Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).

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‪Palaeoart enthusiasts will know about Alice B. Woodward, but you hear much less about her sister Gertrude (1854–1939), a prolific illustrator of scientific papers on subjects like the Terra Nova Expedition and Piltdown Man. Lots of letters and originals are held by @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social .

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I'm continually discovering that the useless skills I gained through years of plastic modelling (mostly gunpla) are paying off at my job as lecturer. I used my weathering skills today to make anatomical features stand out on a 3D printed fossil (printed using shiny white resin)!

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I was so ✨️THRILLED✨️ to see mine and @deanrlomax.bsky.social's book next to one another at @barnesandnoble.com in Bozeman, Montana! Be sure to look for these in your local book 📖 shops and museum stores to add to your library! Don't see it there? Ask the manager to carry them 🩷.

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A cool funded PhD studentship in the UK that overseas applicants are also eligible for: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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A huge Dunkleosteus terrelli hurls towards a group of ammonites looking for lunch. One of them releases a cloud of ink trying to escape. All this happens while a school of Stethacanthus (a shark-like chondrichthyan) swims by in the Late Devonian sea. #paleoart #sciart #dunkleosteus

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Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is key for dietary reconstruction, but different 'scopes yield variable results. Consistent diet signals found across 5 tested devices despite inter-device variation Winkler & Kubo propose standardization anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Interested in working with us over the summer?? 👀📊🎨

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New review paper in TREE out! The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thanks for having me BBC Breakfast, to talk dinosaurs and gush about the new Walking With Dinosaurs series! I watched the original landmark series as a teenager in America. It inspired me to study dinosaurs. To work as a consultant on the new one has been a huge joy and honor!

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George Hancock will be hosting an academic talk on #dinosaur #camouflage at #DinoConUK! George is a visual #ecologist at the University of Exeter. He uses multispectral imaging, visual modelling, and genetic algorithms to explore the function of animal colouration.

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Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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⚠️Don't forget to join us today - Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

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Big Suzie first went on display on May 17, 2000—a quarter century ago. Hail to the chief!

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Climate change enhanced habitat diversification for the Middle Jurassic Yanliao Biota in East Asia url:https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf194/8133901

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H. Wang et al. (2025) A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250263 doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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