JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

👋 Good-bye "Parareptilia"! Good-bye "Diapsida"! 👋

Very excited to see this finally out! Xavier and team have been working on this for years, and if you've been to SVP the last couple of years you've probably known this is coming. Substantially changing what we know about where reptiles come from.

"Manuscript accepted," is a nice way to round out #FossilFriday

@museumoftherockies.bsky.social #DinosaursandMOR speaker schedule posted! Spread the word #paleontology people! @arctomet.bsky.social @dinochick.bsky.social @ladynaturalist.bsky.social @paleeoguy.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social @drneurosaurus.bsky.social museumoftherockies.org/signature-ev...

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries. Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone. I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was: "only in hadrosaurs."

Trump signed an executive order to dismantle seven federal agencies: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,

My first book, The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure, is out now! It’s illustrated by the amazing Nat Cardozo. Each page features embossed fossils you can touch. Every fossil tells a story, and every scientist started out as a curious kid. I can’t believe it’s finally here! #fossilfriday #booksky

If you see this QRP with your animal painting. Not really a painting, but here's my most recent #dinosaur, something very much like Prenoceratops and based on photos of the mount of that animal. #IdahoPaleo

I support all of my colleagues who are standing up for science today across the US (and the world). I was one of the organizers for the March for Science in 2017 in western Colorado. The end outcome of that? I adopted a dog at the festival at the end of the march.

Our description of Milleretta rubidgei, a 252 million-year old reptile, is out! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... #Permian #Reptile #South Africa

Here is my reconstruction of Millereta rubidgei, an early #reptile from Late Permian South Africa. It has osteoderms on its head. I was commissioned to do this recon for a redescription published yesterday! Congrats to @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues for such a cool paper! #paleoart

lol welp, Three Gorgonopsid Moon everyone! (mostly gorgonops torvus :) ) #sciart #coprolitepost #meme shirt available here jbh.threadless.com/designs/thre... Been a minute since I've painted digitally! Krita isnt half bad :) Fun detour :) #permian #digitalart #krita

If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

Are you a science- and paleo-obsessed 3D-artist? Come to Zurich and work with us for two years on the prototype for a mind-blowing mini-diorama that will eventually feature 650 million years of evolution! 🤗🌿🦕🐜🦀🧪 www.artstation.com/jobs/2X8m #SciArt #3D-modelling #3D-modeling #3D-printing

THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2025 IS LIVE Three issues - a Sword & Planet special - a New Jirel of Joiry story... The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus stories will be added to this year's issues! Go here to learn more and back the magazine: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Made a pulp-art #Oryctodromeus last weekend but decided to share it here now. A #dinosaur that lived up in the foothills 100 million years ago of what is now #Idaho and #Montana. Based on the new scan data from the #IMNH.

Very important to leave a comment on this during the remaining comment period (26 days left, according to the site).

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by @TrevorABranch https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292201

Today's #FossilFriday is a #tyrannosaur femur from #Idaho! I'm holding a #3Dprint of the original in the case. I'm comparing the paint job one of my interns did to the actual fossil; getting pretty close!. This print, and others like it, will be used in education kits for kids across the state!

@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social has been asking JVP for the last 4 weeks when this paper will be out as we have a press release ready and now it's already out. Great. Have a new azhdarchid. :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please keep in mind that your federal paleo peers are going through a lot right now & may have things going on internally at their various agencies keeping them busy/distracted, leading to additional time to communicate/complete various tasks. Give people a little grace during these stressful times.

Absolutely unacceptable. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

If you see this, post a skeleton.

#Oryctodromeus, the official state #dinosaur of #Idaho hanging out outside of its burrow in the #Cretaceous forest. A belated #FossilFriday bit of art I've worked on over the last week. Done in @procreate.com

#FossilFriday! Vertebra & tooth from mid-sized dinosaur, so Utah 200 Ma. Close to younger Dilophosaurus, but new sp. only at SGDS. HELP Donations & volunteers to help save these fossils. Donate: stgeorgedinosaurdiscoverysite-bloom.kindful.com?campaign=134... or email [email protected]

Calling all creative minds in science communication! 🧠💡🎨 Join us at SMNS as a Content Creator and help bring biodiversity research to a wider audience! 🌿🧬📱 📅 Apply by 16.03.2025 🔗 Details: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta... #JobAlert #Hiring #ScienceComm #SocialMedia

#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

Butt spike aetosaur Typothorax in the works

Let's checkout a few mesoeusuchian grade terrestrial crocs from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmerigian)and basal Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the Colorado Plateau. The new Yellow Cat croc is twice the size of the 2 Morrison taxa. They filled role of skunks and racoons in mid-Mesozoic landscape.

🧪⚒️ The seismic swarm in Greece continues - and GPS stations on Santorini show that the island itself is deforming, signaling likely movement of magma deep in the crust. In our latest post, we explore a new detailed seismic catalog and come up with a possible interpretation. Read more:

Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚

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

For this #FossilFriday I spent most of the afternoon with the museum team updating our exhibit at the airport. Our #Bison latifrons is getting a facelift!

Intensely disturbing.

Announcing the rather epic 'Glossary of tetrapod tracks' in Palaeontologia Electronica. Three years of work led by Jens Lallensack, and with Guiseppe Leonardi (author of the original '87 Glossary). We hope it will be useful for anyone working on tracks palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

Full article: Revisiting Bird’s swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur Tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@404media.co interviews @quinnae.com about LOG OFF, thx @janus.bsky.social for the interview and the wisdom! "There is also such a thing as having *enough* information."

Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Great Viking Survey has now reached the half-way point, and will be open for only a few more months. Don't miss out on letting us know how you feel about the vikings! You can still find us at vikingsurvey.org

Academics have always been complaining about admin duties eating into their teaching and research time

$238.11 for 17 pounds of beef at Costco today.

mood

oryctodromeus sketch

@gondwannabe.bsky.social and I had a blast working with students from Loyola and the Idaho Museum of Natural History this week on developing our curation system of Lance Creek micro vertebrate fossils. Special thanks to the @burkemuseum.bsky.social for hosting us! #FossilFriday

Here is a large #dinosaur limb bone for #FossilFriday! This #Idaho #fossil is from a big meat-eating dinosaur that lived in the #Cretaceous Period. There are tantalizing pieces that are helping some of us (@ljkrum.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social & other) piece this #IdahoPaleo story together.

The National Science Teaching Association's (NSTA) newly revised position statement on climate change further emphasizes the need "to support science educators in resisting unscientific ideas intentionally designed to mislead students." ncse.ngo/nsta-issues-... #scied #k12 #EduSky #NSTA #ClimateEd

This is an amazing site that I had the opportunity to assist in excavating many years ago. The fact that the city is developing this unparalleled look into the early Jurassic is very frustrating; if you have the ability to provide field assistance or heavy equipment, get in touch with Andrew!