12/12/25 is the 10th anniversary of the San Bernardino terrorist shootings. 14 people lost their lives, including five Calif St Univ San Bernardino Alumni. Please do not give into hate and divisive rhetoric, but instead remember them by coming together as a community. Image: the CSUSB Peace Garden.

SVP2025 begins in Birmingham, England in two days! The vertebrate paleontologists of the world are coming together at Birmingham's International Convention Centre. And the annual Christmas Market is going strong surrounding the Centre! #2025SVP #svppresident #svp #SVP2025

Our opinion piece on the importance of science and vertebrate paleontology in the United States was just published by Open Access Government: www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan... #svp #svppresident

I just finished a day near Georgenthal and Tambach-Dietharz, Thuringia, Germany where the locals are very proud of the Dimetrodon and other early Permian fossils we've excavated there over the years. They love our fossils, and we love the local bratwurst!

Happy #FossilFriday ! This image is to celebrate the (almost) 25th anniversary of when the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting was in Bozeman, MT in 2001. My (then) young son Darwin's first SVP, here posed under the foot of MOR 555, the T. rex "Big Mike".

Hi Everyone. This was just published on the "Conversation" website. An important discussion of "who owns history". theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

Happy to finally see this out! New hominin fossils from the Ledi-Geraru site in the Afar Region, Ethiopia reveal that early Homo lived alongside an as-yet unnamed new species of Australopithecus between 2.78 and 2.63 million years ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Happy Fossil Friday. Cast of the skull of Dimetrodon, possibly the most iconic of all synapsids! #svp #svppresident

A thoughtful new post from Canadian Family Offices: canadianfamilyoffices.com/wealth/fossi... Note their lead line: Researchers and museums are left behind as deep-pocketed collectors scoop up dinosaur skeletons and meteorites and add them to private collections

SVP PRESIDENT'S TOWN HALL MEETING Traveling to Birmingham for the Annual Meeting Hi Everyone SVP members are invited to a SVP Town Hall meeting on 5 Aug. The topic: "Traveling to Birmingham for the Annual Meeting". Check SVP email for the link! Interested nonmembers - contact me directly for link.

Happy fossil Friday! Here - Seymouria sanjuanenesis from the Early Permian Bromacker locality of Germany. Easily the best specimen(s) of this genus ever found. #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP

Seen as I drive through SE Utah: the iconic Mexican Hat Rock - a Late Paleozoic rock formation where we've found bits of pelycosaurs - early members of the lineage leading to mammals. #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP

Happy fossil Friday everyone! Yesterday I got to visit with the staff at Petrified Forest National Park. PFNP is one of the great underrated gems of the US National Park system and the crew there is doing a remarkable job! #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #VertebratePaleontology #FossilFriday

Hi Everyone. This is my first post on Bluesky as I seek to spread excitement about paleontology, animation, anatomy, and (as the current president of) the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! #StuartSumida #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #Paleontology #VertebratePaleontology