Possibly the most chaotic #museum collection I've ever seen: a drawer containing literally thousands of pinned #flies, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at @sydney.edu.au. True fact: this drawer contains more museum objects than the entire UK National Gallery.

One like, one clam fact

Okay, so this is one of the most impressive artworks I've ever seen. It's a FOUR METER sperm whale jaw with scrimshaw carvings on every tooth and on the bone itself commemorating the final voyage of the Kathleen, a whaling ship that was sunk by a sperm whale in 1902. It took thirty years to carve.

We’re so excited to be presenting our workshop at #SVP2025: Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Come and learn our top tips and simple effective techniques for enhancing your figures to make them clearer, more accessible, and more impactful!

Happy 1st of #ssSnaketember! Today’s theme is Asymmetry! Take a face. The left and right side will often be mirror images. Not the case for the face of the Keeled Slug #Snake. These snakes have up to 50% more teeth on the right side of their jaw than their left But WHY? [1/5] #Herpetology #SciComm

#ssSnaketember is migrating to Bluesky, and it’s bigger than ever! We’ll be bringing you an awesome #snake story, every weekday, for the rest of the month! I can promise that there will be noodles, and there will be highly boopable snoots. Come for the #snoots, stay for the #science! 🐍 #SciComm

Research out that I was involved in at the @nhm.org under the @chalksea.bsky.social project! I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project. Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!

As well as @plesiosarahs.bsky.social, other authors on this study include: @jdwitts.bsky.social @marcehjones.bsky.social @dntangunan.bsky.social @kimchandler.bsky.social @pbown.bsky.social @chalksea.bsky.social

She now has a trace fossil named after her: bsky.app/profile/marc...

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂 She would be 206 years old today! We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms: - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦴🪱

Not a bad homage given that we didn't have much time and it was done from memory. #JAWS50 #JAWS #4thofJuly

New #RSOS paper: The earliest #fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic #whales. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology @plesiosarahs.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social‬

Sculled 20km of Thames tideway today 😮‍💨 ☀️

Fun afternoon in the tank room with the great white sharks @marcehjones.bsky.social

PhD dream team (including @lej-palaeo.bsky.social and @plesiosarahs.bsky.social) from the NHM stand at the #lymeregis #fossilfestival. We had an amazing weekend talking to everyone about fossils!

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Best way to spend a summer evening. Bonus points if you can spot the flaw in form that made my coach take this video from the launch to show me.

power to the tail

“What will you do when you finish writing your thesis?”

The Thames gifted me another fossil sea urchin this morning.

Bank holiday weekend mood

Apparently I'm at the stage of my career where random men I don't know email me and explain in a patronising tone things I already understand and then get upset when I don't reply. Quite enjoying continuing to not reply.

Later today for #GenerationHope at the NHM UK.

there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊

Among the thousands of dire wolf specimens at La Brea #TarPits is this 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘶𝘴 lower jaw. Known as “The Endling”—the last known #direwolf fossil on Earth—this fossil is dated to be approximately 13,082 years old. See the fossil now on view in our Fossil Lab!

I don’t always follow the thought process of reviewers, but when I don’t I really don’t.

Also now available are the titles of the four (!) special symposia at #2025SVP: - Ancient Biomolecules - Synchrotron radiation micro-CT scanning in paleontology - Evolution of Triassic non-marine tetrapod communities - Multidisciplinary approaches to skull function and evolution

Abstract submission is now open for #2025SVP in Birmingham! Deadline is June 3rd & all key information is here: vertpaleo.org/abstract-sub...

The Friedman Lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan seeks a technician to generate, curate, segment, and archive micro-CT data for extinct and extant cichlid fishes. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

For #FossilFriday a lightly metamorphosed limestone with mineral-infilled burrows, crinoids, and bivalves, showing small-scale faulting. Found in a Spanish riverbed.

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout ([email protected]) 🐦💍💛 (Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑) #Seabirds #IrishSea

Latest paper from the PhD research: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Named a bunch of bone-eating worm ichnospecies and set up a timeline for their occurrence using nannofossil dating. @marcehjones.bsky.social @jdwitts.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday an echinoid rolled and worn by the river Ara in the Pyrenees.

Third field day for the sed/strat 2nd year course in the Pyrenees. Four shades of the Peña Monteñesa thrust block.

Rainy and cloudy in the Tremp basin today- looking at the PETM.

More snow than usual on the Pyrenees! Day 1: My final year helping teach the 2nd year sed/strat field course in 🇪🇸

It's Trans Day of Visibility. Unfortunately for many trans people in the world right now, visibility means violence. I am grateful that it's relatively safe for me to be trans, to yell loudly for our rights, and to use my position to try and make polar science a safer place for all. #TDOV 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

PLA notices to mariners continues to deliver

Guess I'm taking a week off from thesis writing- find me at my local (AKA the best pub in London).

New office decor. #ruderaven Artist shop: www.redbubble.com/people/Abz-J...

Today I have resigned from my position as a Data Editor at Proceedings B. I believe the journal does great work, but it feels wrong to voluntarily spend my time holding authors to account on behalf of the Royal Society, while the Society refuses to hold its own Fellows to account.

Newts and frogs of the NHMUK nature garden (can you tell I’m procrastinating). Made my day- love a good amphibian.

Postdoc on stegosaurs with Roger Benson at the AMNH careers.amnh.org/postings/4384

Third PhD chapter accepted for publication this morning; Fourth chapter submitted this afternoon. Keepin that ball rollin 😎

same vibes

#science #job Research fellow in Molecular Ecology @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 🧪

A timely reminder.

Finished my #SouthGeorgia #whale drawing. Using ink dots to draw the species of whale we saw last week: Blue, Humpback and Southern Right whale! #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Was just sent this - cool use of historical bioerosion: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...