I'm beyond thrilled to share the trailer for The Dinosaurs, which I got to work on as a researcher and consultant! Get ready to see prehistoric animals, including several pterosaurs, which have never been shown on TV before! #SilverbackFilms #FossilFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social

*Excitedly tells the wife that I now know what I want for Christmas*

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

A great event and a fantastic start to #2025SVP Thanks to the presenters and organisers!

Multi-factor/two-step verification is absolute bane of my existence at the moment You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!

I have recently reached B1 level German classes and I now have 16 ways of saying the word 'the' I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅

Jurassic World Rebirth is truly a film of all time

News story on our sickly Plateosaurus paper here www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm! Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)

Today is the 3 year anniversary of one my favourite papers; skull-body size ratios of archosauromorphs, including 🦕 🐊 🦖 and more, so I am shamelessly plugging it again Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Continuing looking into bird colouration and I cannot get enough of the colours of the resplendent quetzal Such a fantastic looking bird Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock

Researching bird colouring for palaeoart research and I google hoatzins This abomination was one of the top results #AIslop

Sharing a meme I made this week for my 🐢 loving partner Such a derpy face 😂

Good start to the day with a 🦕 paper accepted! Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!

Happy Easter everyone!

Our OA article on bite forces of Saurosuchus* with @palaeostephan.bsky.social and @richardjbutler.bsky.social (lead, Molly Fawcett) is apparently a #TopViewedArticle in The Anatomical Record *great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

R help needed! Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following: [1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label" What am I doing wrong?

Such a cool study! Palaeontology meets Star Wars, what's not to love?

Science collective; does anyone have a PDF of the following? Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11 Thanks in advance!

Received an angry letter from the Student Loans Company today because I am a whole £0.01 (!) behind on my loan repayments... 😅

A bit of impromptu 'fieldwork' on our dear Plateosaurus today - Ben Pabst & @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social enjoying the Monday quiet in our museum 💚🦕

This #FossilFriday I'm writing about #pterosaurs and birds, so here's a pic of Campylognathoides from the early Jurassic Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We describe the earliest-known specimen of a chimaerid egg capsule from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland Yes, I know it's weird for me to be publishing on non-reptiles 😅 Paper fully OA here: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Signed!

This #PterosaurPtuesday here's an adorable juvenile Scaphognathus from Solnhofen, Germany Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History

Currently juggling manuscripts (as lead or co-author) on: i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology ii) Dinosaur pathology iii) Dinosaur microwear iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)

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

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25

Tiny, articulated and adorable skeleton of a young Pterodactylus for #FossilFriday Housed at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

📣 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...

Jurassic pirates. A pair of Rhamphorhynchus harassing a Pterodactylus so it releases a fish it just caught A scene from the Late Jurassic of what would become Europe #paleoart #sciart #pterosaurs

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...

First #FossilFriday of 2025 so here's a fantastic preserved lower jaw of an Early Jurassic distant relative of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, Scelidosaurus Housed at the London NHM

Last #FossilFriday before🎄Christmas 🎄and earlier this week we submitted our MS on an unusual 🦕 pathology Here's a cryptic sneak peek for now. Pray the reviewer gods are merciful...

For #FossilFriday, here's an adorable replica of a baby Diplodocus🦕 at the Natural History Museum of Zurich Look at that cute li'l face! 🦕

The dinosaurs here in Zurich have now been decorated for Christmas! 🎄 Come visit before the holidays! We have lots of modern and extinct animals on display🎄

#FossilFriday Life-size 🦕Diplodocus skeleton🦕 at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich #dinosaur #Zurich

Putting the finishing touches on my #PalAss24 talk on pterosaur-bird competition To tide you over until then, here's one of the smallest-known specimens of Rhamphorhynchus, complete with a tear-drop shaped tail vane

This #PterosaurPtuesday one of my favourite pterosaurs, Dimorphodon, from the NHM, London Look closely at the lower jaw and see all the tiny lancet-shaped teeth

Very snowy morning today in Zurich

Today I'm working in the murky realm of dinosaur 🦕 pathology Here's a cryptic sneak peek at one of the specimens, we hope to submit something very soon. Stay tuned...🦕

Hopefully I can get #PterosaurPtuesday trending again Re-sharing this fantastic #palaeoart by @markwitton.bsky.social that I commissioned to go with my pterosaur diet paper in 2020 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Front to back: Pterodactylus, Rhamphorhynchus, Germanodactylus

🚨Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨 📆Summer 2025 📍University of Zurich, Switzerland Visit the website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more www.cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Zürich (UZH) investigating functional morphology and disparity of extinct reptiles - pterosaurs and birds in particular Below is me looking inside the mouth of Trinity the T. rex at the Sauriermuseum, Aathal (Photo; Megan Jacobs)