Bel hommage de Ronan Allain @cr2p.bsky.social ancien doctorant puis collègue de Philippe Taquet, sur Le Petit Carnet Paléo du dessinateur Mazan. ➡️ petitcarnetpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/11/homm...

I also wanted to thank Raynsford Academy in Sandy for taking in my daughter while she has been in the UK while I was at SVP and then at the GSI conference. I had such a good time giving a small presentation there on Monday using local fossils collected by past and present students from the school.

I had fun participating in the Geological Survey of India’s 175 year celebration “Unearthing the Past, Shaping the Future” in Jaipur. I’m impressed by the positive energy and enthusiasm at this conference!

To celebrate the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated a special open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) by Carrano et al. (2012) buff.ly/VSK0N4L 🦖 #Paleosky #2025SVP buff.ly/UQPdv6k buff.ly/T746Dv3 #DrScott

The obituary: www.arbormemorial.ca/en/glendale/...

Garfield was one of several of the “In Memorium” members read out at the SVP banquet that caught me by surprise. He was a great dude and artist — got to know him a bit over some late evenings working on the Carcharodontosaurus reconstruction out at RCI.

Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come

Wonderful remembrance of the great Philippe Taquet by my friend Didier Dutheil. Sad news indeed. Very proud to have been part of the team that honored him by naming a dinosaur species after him—and a most bizarre one at that (which, as it turns out, was found by Didier).

Michigan paleontology family portrait, Birmingham edition #2025SVP

Come meet “chomper” at Lynnea Jackson’s poster this afternoon! She’s investigating functional aspects of tooth imbrications in early sauropods. (Poster B508)

I'll be presenting a poster at #2025SVP #SVP2025 about my recently published work on how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny. Come by at the poster session this Thursday if you want to chat about it! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

On my way to #2025SVP #SVP2025. I'll be presenting a poster on behalf of Indian and U.S. colleagues on Friday afternoon — focused on a wonderful new turtle skull and on Indian Plate biotic endemism during the K-Pg. Stop by! (The paper describing this new turtle is in review at JVP...)

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Jenny McElwain on the Blindboy podcast!

In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf #2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM

a wonderful remembrance of Mark

Congratulations to the authors of these contributions recognized as JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology! www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...

Nice News & Views by Hussam Zaher on the two new lepidosaur papers in Nature by Marke et al. and Benson et al. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Bonus = a reference to 'The Little Prince' ...

Florentino Ameghino, the father of Argentinian paleontology, was born #OTD 1854. He became a national icon for his role in creating national science and culture. 🧪⚒️ wp.me/p3ihHu-Af #histsci

New York Times obituary for one of New York’s greatest characters. RIP Mark, and you’d enjoy the Romanian palinka we’re toasting in your honor tonight! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/s...

Thought I'd share this fantastic photo that Hailu You sent me last week of a U.S. paleontological delegation visit to ZIgong Dinosaur Museum in 1984. Some giants of our field here (studying a giant): Jack McIntosh (far right) Dong Zhiming & Sankar Chatterjee (next to JSM) and Philip Bjork (at left).

Joining the chorus of the many lamenting the passing of Mark Norell. We lost a great one! I admired his ability to combine field work, empirical work, and theory (e.g., ghost lineages). And with rock star aura. I also truly coveted his office—one of the greatest imaginable—the turret of the AMNH!

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!! You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site

Hagler-Hearns fight in Driver’s Ed

Currently enjoying Bobb Schaeffer's 1941 thesis on the evolution of the tetrapod tarsus . . . a really nice piece of work integrating anatomy, development, function, and ichnofossils across a broad range of taxa. digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstreams/c...

Huh! prg.is.titech.ac.jp/papers/pdf/j... @headlab.bsky.social @macrostrat.org

Lovely new office succulent (Aloe brevifolia) courtesy of the UM Earth’s Mental Health Awareness Month! 👌🏽

Great interview on WEMU with our own Julie Cole, Chair of Earth & Environmental Sciences at University of Michigan! www.wemu.org/show/1st-fri...

those interested in El Eternauta can find pdfs of the original editions @archive.org archive.org/details/El.E...

Thank you, AG Nessel, for making the right decision here. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

«El tiempo es la sustancia de que estoy hecho. El tiempo es un río que me arrebata, pero yo soy el río; es un tigre que me destroza, pero yo soy el tigre; es un fuego que me consume, pero yo soy el fuego. El mundo, desgraciadamente, es real; yo, desgraciadamente, soy Borges». Jorge L. Borges

Congratulations to my friend Diego Pol for his well deserved induction into the Argentine National Academy of Science!

Congratulations Rodrigo! rackham.umich.edu/discover-rac... @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

Excited for TODAY's annual E.C. Case Lecture, which will be delivered by Jenny McElwain (University of Dublin). Her lecture is "Exploring Earth's Dynamic Atmosphere and Ecosystems with Fossil Plants." The lecture is open to the public, with a reception to follow (see poster). Hope to see you there!

This morning's episode of The Daily features the right wing activist behind the T administration's attacks on universities. An infuriating but valuable listen if you want to learn more about what U.S. universities are up against. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...

Great editorial on why India doesn't have a natural history museum by UM Earth/UMMP Ph.D. Devapriya Chattopadhyay (now at IISER Pune). www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Great job by undergrad researcher Paulo Martins at the Michigan Geophysical Union presentation yesterday! His poster is on a titanosaur astragalus from the Late K of India—thus far the only one known from India or Madagascar during that interval.

Just out in Contributions from the UMMP — the first article in the Lance Grande festschrift, authored by Eric Hilton, Willy Bemis, and @friedmanlab.bsky.social "Interconnected patterns of natural history: the career and contributions of Lance Grande." deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027....

Captain it's Wednesday

AND … UM Earth/Paleo PhD student Lynnea Jackson performed with the Campus Symphony Orchestra. They began with D’un Matin de Printemps by Lili Boulanger, then something by Saint-Saens, and then played Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Wonderful!

So great to see (virtually) UM Earth Major & Paleo Minor Ben Woodmansee perform with the Campus Philharmonia Orchestra. Program: -Moncayo, Huapango -Faure, Pelleas et Melisande -Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, movement 4 Have to say I am partial to the Faure, but I enjoyed all the pieces.

50,000 Palestinians have died since Hamas' brutal attack on Israel. Many of them women and children. Yet if you simply acknowledge it, that is 'causing a ruckus', and gets you deported. Today it's a Fulbright Scholar, detained & disappeared. Who will it be tomorrow? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Congrats to @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social on receiving the Dorr Graduate Achievement Award from the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences!

UMMP students at the Earth Dept’s annual Dorr Dinner Friday night! Standing L-R: Ben Woodmansee, Lynnea Jackson, Zach Lyons-Weiler, Jerónimo Morales Toledo, Tariq Abdul Kareem, Jie Geng. Squatting: Teddy Matel, Rodrigo Figueroa

It's #GivingBlueDay here at Michigan! Please help support the Museum of Paleontology and our amazing students: www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

UM Museum of Paleontology @ummnh.bsky.social has a short spotlight article on me this month where I summarize my research on fossil fish jaws: lsa.umich.edu/paleontology...

Carlos Jaramillo y Camila Martínez!

This is phenomenal geology humor (full video at www.instagram.com/reel/DHHL3fI...)