Paid a visit to my former lab today 🦴Always good to be back! #paleontology

Jaw-dropping Allosaurus jimmadseni skull on display at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin #FossilFriday

We will never solve the climate crisis and biodiversity loss under capitalism. This much is clear. Let’s reduce carbon and material footprints by decommodifying the commons and limiting ourselves to planetary boundaries 🌎 #climatecrisis

Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985 The quintessential South American theropod #FossilFriday

The climate crisis/biodiversity loss are rooted not only on capitalism, but on the radical prometheanism that Europe spread through colonialism and conquest. We should promote ecosocialist development through integration with our biomes. Distancing ourselves from nature clearly didn't work

The US is a terrorist state. War is fundamental to their existence in a way that is alien to most other countries It behaves erratically and should not be trusted. Time for Latin America and BRICS to wake up

#AvatarFireAndAsh is great and caught me off guard a few times This is Jim Cameron getting trippy and esoteric 8/10 ⭐ Just take me back to Pandora 🌎

Language remains the most profound technology we humans ever developed because its implication is that our mind is shared

Stromatolites everywhere 🪨 These columnar ones are 2+ billion years old and were used as floor coverings #precambrian #paleontology

RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🐒 Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back #janegoodall #hope

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago

Denisovans finally have a face 💀 This is huge! #paleoanthropology

The spectacular Tupandactylus navigans being displayed at the University of São Paulo’s Geoscience Museum 🏛️ #paleontology #decolonizescience

A crise climática já está aqui 👇

Excited to start the paleohistology phase of my postdoc project 🔬 #science #paleontology

Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography

Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕 This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups! Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...

Triste é aquele que, dentro do sistema capitalista, busca um trabalho com função social

🚨Croc paper alert! Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil! Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology

Essa obsessão do governo com a margem equatorial é o “drill, baby, drill” da centro-esquerda brasileira Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática

#FossilFriday - Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho & Bertini 1999, a small sphagesaurian (sensu Ruiz et al., 2021) that helped start the current boom in notosuchian research back in the late 90s 🐊

Needless to say a US occupation of Palestine is yet another war crime… It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine

Deepseek is actually excellent news for the climate 🌎 Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries. Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models It is obvious now that we don’t need this

Viva a América Latina 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇧🇷!

Deported Brazilians reported being handcuffed, beaten, choked and some received death threats by American agents during the flight, even within Brazilian air space This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…

Remember the early 2010s, when the space/science community on the internet was filled with re-edited Cosmos videos, awesome science songs by Melodysheep and healthy amounts of skepticism? You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …

I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.

Something ...small...is coming 🐊 Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think... #crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira

Being a geologist and a planetary science enthusiast, it’s been sad to witness the space community degenerate into far-right Musk bros…

These horrific California fires show that absolutely no one is safe from the climate breakdown And to the tech bros and CEOs out there: bunkers are not gonna save you either #climatecrisis

O colapso socioambiental alcança escala planetária O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo

Boa parte dos problemas que temos hoje decorre do fato de que os tech bros leram cyberpunk na adolescência e não entenderam que o gênero é uma crítica.

Happy new year 🍾 !!! Wishing a wonderful 2025 full of accomplishments to everyone #NewYear

D’Emic, M.D., Finch, S.P., Britt, B.B. & Wilson Mantilla, J.A. (2024) Increased sampling reveals the complex evolution of sauropod dinosaur tooth replacement rates. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–8. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

I met the largest of the New World Monkeys 🐒 today: The thoughtful Muriqui-do-sul!

Hi! 👋🏼 I'm a palaeontologist from the Scottish Highlands, about to start a NERC Research Fellowship at National Museums Scotland. I study mammal evolution esp. in time of dinosaurs, and do fieldwork finding fossils in the Isle of Skye. Also author of two popular science books, and more to follow ✍🏼

Zollikofer, C.P.E., Beyrand, V., Lordkipanidze, D. et al. Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi. Nature 635, 906–911 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Writing grant proposals can be incredibly exhausting

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

🔬Cientistas descreveram uma espécie de eucarionte unicelular que exibe uma fase de desenvolvimento multicelular similar ao desenvolvimento embriônico inicial de animais, incluindo diferenciação celular! Seria um espelho da origem dos embriões na Terra? 👇🏼 🧪

And that’s it! The first Paleontology of non-avian Reptiles course at the University of São Paulo 📚 has come to an end with an amazing seminar session! Couldn’t ask for a better class. Thanks to all the students for trusting this humble postdoc!

de Farias, B.D.M. et al. (2024). The first ontogenetic model for non-crocodylomorph loricatans, based on osteohistology of the ontogenetic series of Prestosuchus chiniquensis from the Middle Triassic of Brazil. The Anatomical Record, 1–31. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Good news! Science folk are turning to 🦋

Having my first teaching experience as a postdoc here at the University of São Paulo 📚 I’m learning a lot from students and their feedback will help me grow professionally. Teaching vertebrate paleontology is a dream come true! #academiclife #paleontology

Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol... Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

So the latest controversy here in Brazil is that our First Lady told Elon Musk to go fuck himself… I loved it

Incredibly proud of this! Countries should use their power and influence to improve people’s standards of living 🇧🇷not wage war 🕊️

Massive clutch of fossil crocodyliform eggs 🐊🥚at the Paleontological Museum of Marilia, Brazil. These were recently discovered by William Nava at Adamantina Formation (Late Cretaceous) outcrops #paleontology #notosuchia