Look @davehb.bsky.social you're popular enough to be ripped off by random pages on Facebook and shown to me:

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

First teaching day of the semester. Prepare to embrace the chaos.

Just realising that Jimmy Kimmel isn't Jimmy Fallon.

After an incredibly long gestation period, I have a new paper out reviewing all the data and evidence we have on the pterosaurian uropatagium. Full link to the paper is in the blogpost linked below: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...

Proofs are here! :D

Spent this morning making new art for the #terriblelizards patreon tiers. This is iguanodon thumbs up. @davehone.bsky.social

A bit of fun. While in Mongolia I got to see this really neat specimen. Photo shows a bit of leg near a joint, and the photo is of an area about 5 cm across. What kind of animal has this kind of scalation?

Just to add to the chorus, I am sad to hear the news of the loss of Mark Norell from the field of palaeontology. I was lucky enough to meet Mark Norell in both Beijing and New York and to work with him on a couple of projects over the years.

A tiny Jurassic pterosaur, Bellubrunnus, wingspan, less than a foot (its head is the size of my fingernail)

Font choice is important when advertising your Cafe Truck.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

What's better than an hour of Dave talking about dinosaurs? How about three and a half hours? Should keep a few of you busy at least. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm1... And have I ever looked this dramatic before?

The amazing thing about the news that Nadine Dorries has joined Reform is that I rather assumed that had already happened a year or more ago. How has it taken her this long?

Dragonflies use “crazy turning” to dry themselves off after a cooling dip in water. Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/3Vw2Df1

I helped out with the behaviour side of this. All hypothetical of course, but based on some sound ideas about how combat often goes in big carnivores. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgoT...

Paper accepted. :) Hopefully will be out soon.

Has anyone done a collection of all the worst roundabout efforts, misspelled graffiti etc.? Someone must have been putting these together.

Seeing people drawing Spicomellus, I think people should really give a listen to @davehone.bsky.social on Terrible Lizards podcast wanting people to do a better job to credit papers. Curious what other academics, especially brits think. youtu.be/HQeW7U40Sm8

You may remember @davehone.bsky.social went to Utah a couple of years back to get help with a sauropod excavation. That trip was with sauropod supremo Matt Wedel who was recently in London, and so we scooped him up to get him onto #TerribleLizards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e08-sau...

Ah Simon Jenkins, never knowingly right about anything. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon has been *very* quiet recently.

Matt Wedel (one of my co-authors on the Aquilops paper) and I had a fun time geeking out over this summer's Jurassic World installment. You can hear our thoughts in this new video from @alfpaleo.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWA...

Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column. Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Is there anything more relaxing than logging into a journal's website to upload a revised manuscript with all the figures, tables, SI, responses and the rest? Yes, almost everything in the whole world.

For those keeping track, the paper that was submitted at the end of November has just come back with (very) minor revisions. Only 8 and a bit months for what was only a 25 page manuscript (including figures and refs) I do think that it could probably have been read *slightly* faster than that.

Finally saw Jurassic World Rebirth. Quite an improvement on the recent installments, though they still need work on the writing generally and boy the dino details don't get any more accurate. Long tailed Anurognathus, micro-Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatlus is an avian (and that head!) etc.

No, you called @davehone.bsky.social’s podcast episode about #pterosaur soft tissues flappy flap bum flaps. 😎 #terriblelizards open.spotify.com/episode/3wJE...

The Daily Mail lead with a photo of triumphant Irish and Ghanaian heritage Lioness players + another anti-immigration story. What hypocritical graceless fuckwits.

Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:

Fiddling with Javascript to change mentions of AI in news to a more accurate description

Can any GoPro (or equivalent) users recommend a starter set-up? Something with decent battery, anti-shake and ideally waterproof and with features like time lapse. Seeing stuff around £70-150 which is idea but a bewildering choice, so recommendations welcome.

We need more nuanced commentary on the sale of fossils than we often get, but this take is awful. Selling fossils is fine as museums can always buy casts and dinosaurs become more prominent because of sales is missing the point so badly the shot went backwards: theconversation.com/why-its-not-...

And I'm giving names to my socks.

In perfect timing for #FossilFriday, the proofs for my next paper, which has now been brewing for more than 15 years(!) have arrived. Not really relevant but all I could find at short notice pterosaur photo for reference. :) The paper will contain considerably more soft tissue than this specimen.

Did you listen to me and @fossilrob.bsky.social's new podcast yet? It's called The Fossil Files, and each episode we discuss a recent palaeo paper. Sometimes, we're funny. Sometimes, we are boring. You'll have to listen to find out which. fossils.libsyn.com

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

There was a time when Masterchef judges upheld the highest standards of ethics.

The children’s publishing world was rocked this week as a book was released by a new author who wasn’t a celebrity. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

For Fossil Friday here’s something a little different, a book review! @davehone.bsky.social has wrote a fantastic book titled “Uncovering Dinosaur Behaviour” with incredible art from @serpenillus.bsky.social and the book is a brilliant read and very much worth a purchase! Read on for why! 🦖

He's probably sick of DC having spent so much time negotiating property sales with Aquaman.

This afternoon's job is proofing Spinosaur Tales. It should be out in November in the UK, and North America in Feb 2026. Chock full of illustrations by @markwitton.bsky.social and I even graciously allowed him to write some of the text too.

Those in need of entertainment this #FossilFriday might be interested in our new podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social wherein Susie and I gossip about new palaeo discoveries

this made me laugh so much

Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔

What the hell, let's take a swing. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/t...