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Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.

Sad news, the passing of a giant of the conservation world www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today? dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042 Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With a pristine skull, tiny phalanges, gastroliths, & an articulated tail, Zavacephale is the oldest & most complete pachycephalosaur ever found #fossilfriday I had the pleasure of photographing it last week, what a beauty! Congrats to the authors, read about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

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...

Postcards from the last #fossilfriday in the field 🦖🏜️⚒️

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor. Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

The first time was so nice, we had to do it twice #Mongolia

Hey 6-year-old me, I cowboy camped (=bivacco) at the Flaming Cliffs, watched the sunset, slept under the Milky Way, woke up to the sunrise (and even found the fossils this place is famous for). How about that? Bucket list: 🪣✅🏜️🦖🪺 #dinosaur #exploration #Mongolia #Gobi #adventure

Just got word that the dean of Mongolian vertebrate paleontology, Rinchen Barsbold, passed away at age 90. A pivotal figure in the history of paleontology in his nation, and of the study of theropods.

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surreal to be at Togrogiin Shiree, the “fighting dinosaurs” type section. Sounds like a dream to unearth a complete, articulated Protoceratops and a finding a baby dromaeosaur dentary. Best of all: teammates who make a frantic five-hour dig feel like a walk in the park 🦖🌅

Follow me for a taste of good paleontology: today’s menu featured a complete turtle, bits of Protoceratops and Velociraptor, and dinosaur tracks 🦖🦕 #Gobi #Mongolia #dinosaur #paleontology

#FossilFriday hits differently when you’re out in the field, particularly when your eyes land on an articulated avimimid and on a baby velociraptorine, but most importantly when you know you work with the best 🦖 #dinosaurs #paleontology #Gobi #Mongolia

Since it’s abstract acceptance day, cheers from the Gobi to all SVPers @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 🦖 🐫 #2025SVP #SVP2025

Great news from Birmingham to the Gobi: talk accepted to #2025SVP #SVP2025 - see you in November to chat Opisthocoelicaudia and titanosaur macroevolution. Bonus Milky Way pic from my tent ⛺️ 🌌🦕

Notifications for #SVP2025 #2025SVP abstracts are going out! Check your emails and get pumped for Birmingham! 😀 We've been working hard on the Program Committee. 🦴⛏️ This is one of the largest Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meetings of all time. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 🤩

Piece of a maxilla (upper jaw) and a jugal (“cheek”) bone, including the horn of a Psittacosaur I picked up (live from the field) and view of the office today #Gobi #Mongolia #fieldwork #dinosaurs #MADEX2025 #dinodig25

Yes - we do listen Susie and Rob :)

www.uvigo.gal/universidade... Do fósil á viñeta: o novo cómic de Mapas Lab achega a ciencia á mocidade | Universidade de Vigo

Registering for #2025SVP #SVP2025? Why not get your hands on some of the merchandise featuring our amazing logos designed by @markwitton.bsky.social vertpaleo.org/2025-svp-ann...

Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social 🐊🦕 (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising! @macroecoevoale.bsky.social @devinhoffman.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social

Can't share pictures of the show itself yet -- as it's not even open! But me, Tone and Em went to LightRoom London today for a #DiscoveringDinosaurs event. Great to bump into @formorphology.bsky.social and @macroecoevoale.bsky.social :) Great selections of books and more in the shop.

After a great icebreaker kicking off the annual @eavpalaeo.bsky.social meeting in Kraków, I'm finally digging into a fantastic first session. If you're interested in sauropod macroevolution and new relevant insights on Opisthocoelicaudia, don’t miss my talk on Wednesday at 12:15 🦕🔥 #EAVP2025!

A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution combines fossil occurrence data, phylogenies and climatic niche modelling to explore the palaeobiogeography of early pterosaurs and their non-flying close relatives, the lagerpetids. go.nature.com/44mbnJY #Paleosky 🧪

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked: "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?" 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful!

Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria issue of the journal Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology @nilese.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ‪in which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Don’t forget that the abstract deadline for #2025SVP #SVP2025 is tomorrow! vertpaleo.org/abstract-sub...

Really happy to see this out! Also super grateful for Jeff bringing me on board; what started as a casual conversation over lunch in the NHM staff room has turned into some really interesting work and a great friendship. What more can you ask for?! Read on for stuff on fossil record preservation! ⤵️

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out! We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social! 📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology on the neat new paper by @princessquatris.bsky.social et al., highlighting why occupancy modelling is an exciting tool for understanding sampling bias in palaeontology 🦕 You can access it for free using this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HM3QW8S...

The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Read the #BiologyLetters review: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ Artwork by Davide Bonadonna #palaeontology #evolution

Great to see Lewis Jones received his Doscar as one of the winners of the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for his work on the Paleoverse (palaeoverse.org) a community space improving reproducibility in palaeobiological research. #Palaeobiology #Reproducibility #OpenResearch #Research

🦖📉 In case anyone missed it, our new paper on using occupancy modelling to resolve the structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record came out yesterday! 🪨⛰️ You can find it here ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol... It's also accompanied by this incredible illustration by @tim-bird.bsky.social!

Exciting times ahead! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Huge congratulations to @princessquatris.bsky.social on leading this exciting application of occupancy modelling to the fossil record!

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨 We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction! www.cell.com/current-biol...