Ebenezer Scrooge was stingy and mean but he was absolutely justified in disliking Christmas, and he did not deserve to have his individuality peer pressured out of him by three ghosts.

The first pterosaur cervical to be found in Alabama! Watch this space for upcoming research on Alabama pterosaurs!

A Pteranodon longiceps just messing around in the water. This sub-adult’s crest is not yet as large or as brightly coloured as those of more mature individuals. #SciArt

Is your cat doing phylogenetic analysis? Recognize the signs before it's too late!

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" "My cat sat on me, so I could not get up from the sofa"

Warm.

The good news is that I've had another manuscript accepted. The bad news is that it's another boring nomenclatural note that approximately 3 people will care about. The good news is that it has a cool skeletal diagram infographic that @slvrhwk.bsky.social made!

I'm still slightly annoyed that Trader Joe's discontinued the vegan meat lover's pizza.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Paper by @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social independently revalidates Nanotyrannus lancensis using different methodology from the recent Zanno & Napoli paper. But what I'm most excited about is the Coelophysis hyoid histology is finally out too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

He wishes to follow in the footsteps of the great F. D. C. Willard

Useful for researchers too, especially for finding historical literature. If you can't donate money consider donating public domain content that you have access to.

My recommendation to my students tomorrow is that if they get stuck in an uncomfortable Thanksgiving conversation with family, just start manually tearing apart the turkey to show off the theropod synapomorphies. I promise that will derail whatever the previous topic was.

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

pterosaur

Manuscript submitted! @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social

A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface. This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

"I have no problem with high resolution Blender renderings of big 3D models, but i draw the line at playing music." - my computer, apparently

As Thanksgiving gets closer, an excellent video from @minutefood.bsky.social on how to deep-fry turkey (or any other food) SAFELY, to avoid the fireballs you've seen in so many PSAs. TLDR: what matters most is to account for oil displacement. youtu.be/nFR70RKkN7Q?...

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

He is being very helpful with the 3d modeling.

Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28

an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

A same-sex Pteranodon pair doing a courtship display 😌

GAY PTEROSAURS 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to everyone for making #2025SVP in Birmingham productive and fun! After spending the day on planes I'm finally home in NY. Now to actually write up the results of all the data collection I did in UK museums before the conference.....

#2025SVP @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social: Recent finds increasingly show that large carnivorous dinosaurs were present in the Late Triassic. Reports a new herrerasaurid from the Pebbly Arkose Formation in Zimbabwe.

I can finally share this!!! a huge Thanks to both @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social for allowing me to do a Nyctosaur for this poster!!!

Love seeing Nixon and Gorbachev as in the Oval Office as an example of diversity of amniote integument. #2025SVP

Poster is now publicly available on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

For a small country, Wales has a surprising number of very, very cool dinosaurs. Pendraig milnerae (Pendraig = “chief dragon” in Welsh) was discovered in 1952, not far from where I live, but only named in 2021 after being re-discovered in storage by Angela Milner and Susannah Maidment. #SciArt

Come see me today at B199

If you’re at #2025SVP, I’ll be available to chat about this work this afternoon! Our poster on it is at the very end of the balcony (left of the stage) in Hall 3.

New paper out in JSP! 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs by Thomas & McDavid (2025) buff.ly/j9OujIm #PaleoSky #Dragons #Pterosaurs #2025SVP buff.ly/3w48C05 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @skyemcdavid.com

Why are people are still talking about “order” or “family” in a Linnaean taxonomic sense in the year of our lord 2025 #2025SVP

I will die in the hill that apes ARE monkeys and that insisting on a distinction between them is founded in anthropocentrism.

Tomorrow!

I’m just going to say it straight away - the amount of stairs and small steps, and confusing layout makes the ICC an absolute disaster in terms of accessibility. Looking forward to muscle pain at the end of the conference #2025SVP !

Hello and welcome to #2025SVP. Here I will be live-skeeting the non-embargoed talks I attend. I will try to minimize editorializing and present the results as the authors present them. Sharing info doesn’t imply endorsement. Keep in mind that SVP talks are mostly preliminary and subject to change!

Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP

Guy's Cliffe - Middle Triassic Helsby Sandstone Formation in Warwickshire. #2025SVP

Wholesome Train Content™ from the West Midlands Metro #2025SVP

SVPers, come see my work on pterosaurs from Appalachia: several new morphotypes of pteranodontians and azhdarchoids. Thursday Poster Session B199 #2025SVP

Hello from the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, UK where I have arrived for #2025SVP

OK i'll bite (stolen from @cascoclauda.bsky.social). If anyone says *that* Paw Patrol character I will be very disappointed.

While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk