Portland (PDX) is a full-on dumpster fire for connecting intl-domestic flights. Not only are there only 2 CBP agents working customs, but the entire place is torn up for renos. Bus to the terminal, but drop off at arrivals pick up, so have to go BACK through TSA. Their ops team should be fired.

To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian

Thanks so much to all the #2025SVP host committee members & student volunteers & huge thanks to SVP & the community for joining us in Birmingham! We’re super happy with how it turned out. Time now to run a three-day field trip!

And that's a wrap on #2025SVP! See you all again in Cleveland.

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

I survived my #2025SVP talk (and so did the audience). I hope my decomposing reptiles didn't put anyone off their lunch.

Surprising find near the trap: a wooden oar with incised decoration that had been brought up the 4500-ft-tall mountain. (Pic of it and a cute axe-shaped brooch in link.)🏺🧪

She sees dead things. @uglyfossils.bsky.social totally killed it with her talk at #2025SVP today on the decomposition of reptiles and implications for Dinosaur Mummy formation. If you missed it, be sure to find her today... as it is the last day of the conference.

The posters are hung at the conference with care, in hopes that paleontologists soon would be there. Last Poster Session starts this afternoon! Come find me and @paleorob.bsky.social side by side for all the weird and mysterious fossil goodness. #2025SVP

Dear me... Hall 1 is intimidating to enter from the top... be careful, and please move down to accommodate others. #2025SVP

Airports are boring. Bring a book!

US surpasses 10,000 flight delays Sunday in worst day of shutdown reut.rs/43l1lIn

How we do a dessert table at the Dinosaur Journey Museum! (With help from Flavors Grill!)

Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes off Baja California, Mexico, GFZ says reut.rs/4oT9ifZ

Fresh from Spoonflower in the nick of time... our #2025SVP poster! Come see all the Morrison taphonomy goodness on Sat. Nov. 15 in the poster session! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @scleroticrings.bsky.social

Printed my in-flight reading material. Highlighter is on standby. #2025SVP

The Princess of Thacia is a beautiful conclusion to all the War's Wake arcs... Order your copy today and ride off into the sunset with each character. On Sale at Amazon & Barnes and Noble: amazon.com/dp/B0F3GB8PS4 barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thacia-julia-mchugh/1148309786

Happy Halloween Everyone!

I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.

My new shirt.

Decades of Drought Are Changing How Paleontologists Search for Fossils As the planet gets hotter, relics of history are receding from view by Riley Black (restingdinoface.bsky.social) www.sierraclub.org/sierra/decad...

Now on Sale! The Princess of Thacia Final Book in the War's Wake Trilogy. Get your paperback or ebook copy today! Amazon/Kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR6F6918 B&N Nook www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-prince...

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus #paleoart #dinosaur #art

The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...

Happy Establishment date Dinosaur National Monument! On this day in 1915 President W. Wilson created the monument to protect the Carnegie Quarry: “...an extraordinary deposit of Dinosaurian & other gigantic reptilian remains of the Juratrias period, which are of great scientific interest & value...”

Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.

The Florida Museum (FM) is hiring a full-time Registrar within the Department of Natural History. (Anthropology Focus) www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0...

Final round of proofing before the October 21 release of The Princess of Thacia! Pre-order the eBook Now: a.co/d/di66Dmj share.google/NvHA0tLXkjXn...

It's always fun when you can put out some new skulls in the exhibit hall! Taxa were chosen based on materials collected in western Colorado, housed at Museums of Western Colorado and BYU. Skulls were fabricated by Gaston Design Inc and Triebold Paleontology Inc.

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Paleontologist to join our Cultural Resouces team. This is a full-time, hybrid role that will report to our California teams and candidate should be Southern California based. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AECOM2/74400...

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3InFngj #Paleosky 🧪

Behold! The skull of Menisco-"WEEEEE!!"-sus Cast made by Triebold Paleo.

in a bit, in live with @paleontologizing.bsky.social !

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

One hot and gorgeous Allosaurus metatarsal! #DinoFeet

Canoodling sharks, dinosaur display arenas, and turtles who perished in the middle of the act, I'll tell you about the fossil record of courtship and mating in my latest for Smithsonian.

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

The National Geographic Society is hiring a full-time Museum Education Manager. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

The Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of vertebrate evolutionary morphology. apply.interfolio.com/172517?fbcli...

The Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the areas of evolutionary neuroanatomy, comparative neuroscience, brain evolution, and/or sensory adaptations in vertebrates. apply.interfolio.com/172502?fbcli...

Finding yourself out in the wild is super surreal... Okay, so it's a wholesaler reselling my book on eBay... but it's still weird to run across unexpectedly.

The American Museum of Natural History's Invertebrate Zoology Division is seeking a full-time Curatorial Associate to manage the day-to-day care, organization and accessibility of the Invertebrate Zoology collections. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d...

I really don't know who has been filling my pockets with snacks for the Drama Llama, but they need to stop it. It has become bothersome.

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Paleontologist to join our Cultural Resouces team. This is a full-time, hybrid role that will report to our California teams and candidate should be Southern California based. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The Virginia Museum of Natural History is hiring a full-time Exhibit Projects Manager. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!