pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

My Review on Spinosaur Tales (10/10)! This new dinosaur book by @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social is the best one about Spinosaurus and its relatives to date for sure! I highly recommend it to any dinosaur enthusiast, or spinosaur enthusiast.

in hindsight, this one was a little too birder-specific to make it into the New Yorker

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Yeah, another biologist here. This is not what I think or any biologist that I know thinks. Very much a trans-supporting community of scientists.

a transitional pterosaur differing from Propterodactylus open.spotify.com/episode/0TUj... best regards to @davehone.bsky.social and the Lauer Foundation palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs...

Dear TV commissioners / producers / directors. There are actually presenters out there other than Paddy McGuinness. Many of them are actually talented and likeable too.

And finally got it! Both @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social had previously published great divulgative work on tyrannosaurs, and this joint effort on a far less well sampled clade delivers as expected: informative yet witty, and with detailed diagrams and superb artwork. A must.

circus marketing

Hark! @davehone.bsky.social and I have been interviewed about spinosaurs for the Instant Genius podcast, created by BBC Science Focus. If you need a listen for your commute home, we may not be your worst option. #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #scicomm open.spotify.com/episode/7hWf...

Here's a nice 30 mins on #Spinosaurus that I recorded with @markwitton.bsky.social for the BBC Instant Genius Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/7hWf... (Note it has a ton of ads at the start, talking begins after 3 minutes)

📣Job vacancy!📣 Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #ConservationScience 🌍

Unsolicited email about Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. "I always liked your books and this one is no exception. In all honesty, they've influenced my way of thinking a lot. I mean it when I say your books made me a better scientist and I highly recommend them to students that are new in the field."

I'm terrible at self-marketing but I will say that if you want to buy prints, today is a pretty good day to do it. Also if there's something you want a print of that I haven't uploaded yet, let me know (I'm very behind on updating!) #SciArt #BirdArt #bskynightmarket www.inprnt.com/gallery/tiny...

It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Strong review of Spinosaur Tales from The Inquisitive Biologist: "Spinosaur Tales is a thoughtful and accessible book about these enigmatic dinosaurs... presenting a nuanced overview of what we know, what we can reasonably infer, and what is spin." inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/11/26/b...

Started watching The Boys From Brazil to discover one of the all-time great casting mismatches: Laurence Olivier - one of the all time greats. Gregory Peck & James Mason from the golden age of Hollywood And.... Steve Guttenberg - Mahoney from Police Academy.

So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus

What does Marc think of @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social's foray into the world of spinosaurid palaeontology? Find out here!

Hey look, there's a Japanese edition of The Future of Dinosaurs!

Someone has DMed me on Bluesky. If you don't already know, the UK's new bizarre laws to attempt to control some bits of the internet means I can't easily access these anymore. So please email me instead.

So last week I got to go to SVP for the first time in a decade. It was great to catch up with so many old friends and colleagues and talk about old times and new research. I felt like a proper scientist for the first time in ages. Here's me posing next to one of my posters under dreadful lighting.

I've never used ebooks or equivalents. Are these typically sold / made available to purchasers as PDFs? I thought they were generally in some form of proprietary format on a kindle etc. or with a password / tied to a limited number of devices to prevent widespread sharing.

Rob is recording #FossilFiles episodes at #2025SVP! Listen to his thoughts and some of the superstars of the conference on libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus...

The famously left-wing bias of the BBC. (From The Decade In Tory)

Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.

Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.

For no reason whatsoever I'd like to remind producers that if you perceive the need for an expert and have gone to the trouble of finding them, hiring them, getting them to do a load of work, and discussing it, maybe use what they tell you and not just do whatever you wanted in the first place.

I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!

So looks like I was right and there's various people crowing about how they were always right about Nanotyrannus because they'd seen some private specimens or their take on the data was best or special and not at all about how the weight of evidence had shifted now. It's personal opinion > science.

Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool? Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week! terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...

Very much this.

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

Nanotyrannus, schmannotyrannus.

If you want a preview of Spinosaur Tales, here's a quick video of me opening up my first copies. youtube.com/shorts/fhbXO...

Pre-book promo podcast episode on Spinosaurus recorded with @markwitton.bsky.social terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...

For this #FossilFriday, it's unsurprisingly Spinosaurus as I gear up to the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on this most controversial of dinosaurs and the other spinosaurs. It's out in just a couple of weeks (in the UK, Jan 2026 elsewhere).

I was trying to find an old interview I did and came across this AI monstrosity. Worth skimming through for some of the most abysmal representations of paleontology you are ever likely to encounter. The resources that were wasted to make something this bad is awful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vf...

For #FossilFriday this week, and continuing the build up to my new book on spinosaurs with @markwitton.bsky.social, here's the tip of a dentary of a large Spinosaurus showing the huge sockets for the very large anterior teeth.

I have tulip bulbs for sale if anyone is interested.

Outstanding interview, so many great quotes here. Loved the weightroom analogy:

For how many years now have the England 'band' been ruining the experience of watching football. There must surely be hundreds of thousands of people who would like them to shut up.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Timeline cleanse!

In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.

Ah, it's the GDPR training time of the year.

My new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus and their relatives is out a month today! It's available for preorder, so now is the time to get in on this amazing and well-illustrated book on these oddest of #dinosaurs. But don't take our word for it, here's what others have to say: