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Progress, but let’s put it in proportion… Without fundamental reform and sustainable funding a service millions depend on won’t have a future. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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Things are hotting up for the increasingly close release of my next book: King Tyrant: a Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex. We now have preview content for a few pages, showing off the text, diagrams and #paleoart. Full book comes out in May! #FossilFriday press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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This fossil plant is hands down the best fossil I've come across in the wild 🌿 Both @geologyjohnson.bsky.social and I squealed with excitement at this fossil find! Look at the detail 😍 Whitby plant beds, Ravenscar group Middle Jurassic (aalenian stage) #FossilFriday #paleontology #geology

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Day after #FossilFriday The new updated "Glossary of fossil tetrapod tracks" is available open source! Sure to be the go to reference on fossil tracks for decades to come. palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @ichnologist.bsky.social

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For #FossilFriday a tooth from the #IsleofWight iguanodontian dinosaour Comptonatus chasei sporting a slight groove in the primary ridge. Iconic things ‘Iguanodon’ teeth especially in the 200th birthday month of the genus.

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Do you know the link between antifreeze, frogs and slushies? ❄️🐸🥤 If not, there’s no time like the present to find out - and spoiler alert, there’s some incredible science involved! Find out (and never be caught short on this question again) in this week’s #SurprisingScience.

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New OA paper just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org in which Xu Xing and review the current state-of-play with respect to feather origins, highlighting areas of conflict and consensus and suggesting some (hopefully) constructive ways forward 🪶🪶🪶 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Brilliant work from Dr Paul Evans. Fix poverty, fix health.

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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

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#DinoCon ticket sales are off to a phenomenal start, which is great news. We're working hard on getting things up and running and will start announcing events and speakers soon. Help us by sharing links and bringing other people's attention to DinoCon :) www.dinocon.co.uk

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1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

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16 February 1777: Maria Barton was born in Carlisle. As Maria Hack (she married Stephen Hack in London in 1800), she was the author of many educational books for children, including one on geology in 1832, written as a dialogue with a teenage boy, and discussing the discoveries of #MaryAnning.

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Bright Festival at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussel, Belgium

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Final day in Southern Africa so here's one of the regions most iconic fossils, for #fossilfriday it's Lystrosaurus! This squat, rotund, leathery, and toothless(apart from the tusks) critter may not be a traditional symbol of valentines day, but they do say beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

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“Voters can’t comprehend why Ministers can’t fix a simple problem,” says @shivparbary.bsky.social “That people in pain can’t get the care they need.” “The Spending Review will sink or save NHS dentistry, and whichever way she goes the Chancellor will have to own it.” www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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For #FossilFriday as it’s still Iguanodon’s birthday week a road name in the pretty little mining town of Bernissart in Belgium.

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Nice to see something I helped name get a shout out

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This is a plea to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to fund core General Practice The average GP practice has lost the equivalent of 2 GPs, a nurse & admin in funding over the last 8 years (20% cuts) It’s good there are negotiations but patients want & need to see GPs Funding needed! #TeamGP

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As the herbivorous dinosaur Iguanodon was named officially 200 years ago today one of my favourite illustrations of the beast by the brilliant artist John Sibbick.

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To mark the 200th anniversary of the naming of ‘Iguanodon’ an iguanodontian dentary from Gideon Mantell’s own collection. Named Kukufeldia tilgatensis (McDonald et al. 2010) after Mantell’s stomping ground in the Tilgate Forest near the village of Cuckfield in Sussex, England.

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On this day, the 10th of February 1825, a letter from Gideon Mantell was put before the Royal Society. We became aware of the large and iconic Early Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaur ‘Iguanodon’. So happy 200th birthday Iguanodon. Probably the best dinosaur in the world.

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Sad news from Dorset & symptomatic of the ongoing funding crisis within UK heritage. I loved working with the team at JCT over recent years & hope for all the best for their wonderful & very dedicated staff. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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It's the end of an extremely successful week here in Morocco. We set up the prep lab at USMBA and prepped, catalogued and described a bunch of stuff. I even attempted to draw an ankylosaur. Now, the writing... @richardjbutler.bsky.social @afossilpreparator.bsky.social

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🚨The Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one We all need to back the @thebda.bsky.social in its call for urgent action to save NHS dentistry

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From 2019, for #FossilFriday, here's a flock of Jeholopterus wheeling and whirling around the early evening air for Jurassic midges. Anurognathids like this were among the most unusual of #pterosaurs, a result of whole-body specialisations to insect hawking. #paleoart #sciart

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For #FossilFriday with only 3 days to go until the 200th anniversary of Iguanodon being named, a dorsal vertebra from the #IsleofWight in Gideon Mantell’s Collection @NHM_London. Described in 1849 as having obliterated neuropomal sutures. I know what he meant but a new word for me!

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For anyone whose Victorian literature and science seminar needs a soundtrack: in 1896 Hubert Parry set the geologically themed canto CXXIII of Tennyson's In Memoriam to music (as There Rolls the Deep): www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fj...

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#FossilFriday The story of #MaryAnning and her famous fossil finds features in many children's books (over 100 in the last 30 years), and did so during her life as well, such as in Maria Hack's popular book 'Geological Sketches and Glimpses of the Ancient Earth', first published in 1832.

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For #FossilFriday, here's some #paleoart of a casual afternoon in the Early Cretaceous Wealden group, with iguanodonts, tyrannosauroids, polacanthids and sauropods making a mess of a watering hole. The mashed-up muds left by these animals can be found to this day in Wealden rocks. #dinosaurs #sciart

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For #FossilFriday a dinosaur track in the variegated palaeosols of the Cretaceous Wessex Formation. For scale the most useful tool for prospecting on the #IsleofWight - a long thin screwdriver. Just the job for probing and lifting out small bones.

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#Spawnwatch... lots of fighting today, including on land around the edges of the pond, and we now have over 20 individuals showing. Shaping up well so far. #frogs #amphibians

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Planning on joining us in Birmingham for #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in buying merchandise featuring our heavy metal inspired logos designed by @markwitton.bsky.social? We're exploring what merchandise options should be available - please reply to this post & let us know your thoughts!

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For #FossilFriday here’s the inside story from @djemurdock.bsky.social & @kirstymedgar.bsky.social on those dinosaur tracks from Oxfordshire!

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For #FossilFriday a bit of Cretaceous pterosaur wing bone with #bioerosion in the form of grazing traces.

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For my first #FossilFriday post: Bernissartia fagesii, my beloved 💜 This basal eusuchian used to crawl around in between the Iguanodons ~130 MYA in what is now Bernissart, Belgium. It measured only 60 cm at maturity and is therefore one of the smallest - and cutest - crocodyliforms known to science

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Here @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social being told that a qualified GP can’t get a job is signing on (Oct 2024) He has allocated £80m to PCNs to employ 1000 GPs - just 200 have been because it’s an ill thought out scheme, too restrictive & no security Just fund GP practices & let them employ GPs

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Prince Harry has exposed Murdoch’s news empire—it’s time the police investigated www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

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PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...

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For #FossilFriday here is one of my favourite pterosaurs, Istiodactylus, from the Cretaceous of the UK Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures! Specimen housed at the London NHM

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Too late for #FossilFriday but here’s a big #IsleofWight Iguanodon pes at #DinosaurIsleMuseum. A good size match for the big footcasts that are abundant on the Island’s southwest coast. This one is from the ‘Pink Iggy’ as the bones are stained by pigments in the ancient pink palaeosol.

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