Using this whenever someone asks me about embargoed research.

Every time I come to New Haven I appreciate the Visitor Center snack shack located not downtown or near attractions, but across the harbor from a petrochemicals terminal.

Saint Patrick's Day in different countries. Ireland: gets drunk and wears green Other countries with Irish cultural influence: get drunk, wear green, and eat Irish food United States (showed up drunk wearing a Spirit Halloween Leprechaun costume): HOLD MY GUINNESS WE'RE DYEING THE RIVER GREEN!!

Catching up on international news after co-teaching a spring-break field course on a remote island & now trying to apply a geological perspective by revisiting all previous mass extinctions & saying "Hey, things have been worse!"

a bit late but Happy Pi Day!

My social media silence is not because I'm dead, kidnapped, or abducted by aliens; I'm working around the clock to make Book 7 all that it can be before submission later this month. Here's a new #paleoart take on Microraptor and Yuanchuavis to show what I'm up to. OK, break over: back to work...

Merlin: it is TOO LATE in the night to be working on 3d models in blender, it is time for CUDDLES in the BED Me: i have to work my colleagues are counting on me Merlin: ok fine, I'll just lie down on your graphic tablet, so you have no choice but to get ready for bed

A "Syntarsus" half mount at the National Museum of Zimbabwe (via my colleague who always gets to travel to cool places). Interesting that it has both feathers and a dragging tail.

Fortune cookie says my manuscript will be accepted.

Azhdarchid kibble

My ex just texted me to ask me whether I was the one who put a can of baked beans in her mailbox. It was not me.

Example 342 for why you shouldn’t publish in Scientific Reports.

Pterosauring

Late women's day post: To celebrate, this is Tilly Edinger (suggested by @skyemcdavid.com), a jewish german paleontologist with disabled hearing and pioneer of paleoneurology. She studied the brains of extinct animals including pterosaurs. #sciart #paloart

When in Illinois....

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Quick note that following me on social media does NOT mean it's ok to physically touch me at an event. Also, if I've rarely interacted with you, and you talk to me about my social media posts then give me a gift, that is creepy and parasocial.

Happy Birthday (a bit late) to Infernodrakon hastacollis, the Spear-necked Dragon from Hell

lancensis and lethaeus

Hello holotype!

They were roommates!

the blind bard

The entire city of Rockford feels like driving through a minimal spaces blog

Good morning from the Rock River in Rockford, Illinois!

Finally on the plane. PaleoFest here I come.

My flight guy delayed and I'm once again reminded of why I hate flying

This acid-prepped pterosaur skull is displayed in a humidity-controlled case within a case to help maintain the immaculately preserved, paper-thin bones. #FossilFriday

Packing for PaleoFest — see you in Rockford, Illinois!

how your email finds me:

Last night I was down a rabbit hole of why fish can't exist deeper than around 8000 meters and I realized that the deepest a fish has ever gone in the ocean and survived was in a submersible. The fish were people. All vertebrates are fish. I hope this helps with ~~the horrors~~

The ultimate in niche comic strips: mathematicians encounter mammalian dental formulae: xkcd.com/3213/

The Bavarian State Collection (home of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, and Bahariasaurus ingens, among other holotypes) wasn't the only museum to be destroyed during World War II. Caen's was also destroyed, and along with it much of Normandy's then-known fossil record.

Jack Horner "is no longer employed by Chapman University." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Show me your pterosaur art 🫵 I wanna see some pretty pterosaurs 🥺🙏🙏🙏

🫡 Kunpengopterus

Next week we will be celebrating Infernodrakon's 1st birthday as part of PaleoFest at the Burpee Museum is Natural History!

Details to come from SVP but big changes are being made to the ethics process. Hopefully these changes will be effective but I'm cautiously optimistic.

#FossilFriday I know today is not Friday but I can't wait to share it. Holotype of the "Shanshanosaurus huoyanshanensis", which is now a synonym of Tarbosaurus bataar. Photographed in Shanghai natural history museum by me. Noted the subcutaneous flange of the maxilla.

SVP Ethics Meeting is today at 1:30 PM EST. I urge all members to join the meeting and demand that leadership hold known abusers accountable, and improve transparency.

a paleontologist who made important contributions to our contemporary understanding of various reptile groups, and someone I always enjoyed seeing at conferences. Rest in publications

Birb or low battery CO alarm? macaulaylibrary.org/asset/651465...

Highly recommend that y'all listen to this (yeah it came out a while ago but I've been traveling and only now had an opportunity to listen to it)

I have never taken a student to a conference without my cell number programmed into their phone and a solemn oath from them to text me if anything started to get weird or uncomfortable. And maybe that's indictment enough of the culture.

"mixed-media sculpture made of steel and old rocks" 😍

If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.

Someone can use marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... to come up with a much better one than my quick attempt.

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS. WE EAT THEM.

Airlines really are inventing unprecedented levels of nonsense. I just received a message advising me to arrive at JFK Airport 3 hours ahead because of delays caused by construction. I am flying *to* JFK, so I think I will stick to my plan of arriving there whenever the plane lands....

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”