Some proper coastal fieldwork on the UK Dinosaur Isle this week studying the fossil rich sediments of the Wessex formation! Thanks to Gary Nichols, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social and the lovely staff at the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown for the collaboration and hospitality 🦖!

As always there were a lot of cultural experiences along the way, including couscous Friday, unique approaches to transporting livestock, our first meal of sheep brains & liver, and the inevitable speeding fines. Morocco is an amazing country. If you haven't visited you really should.

A successful final day of the Morocco fieldwork full of documenting and prepping the finds, thanks to the wonderful collaboration with USMBA in Fes!

How it started.... how it's going

Did a spot of plastering today @richardjbutler.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social @pimkaskes.bsky.social

An enforced break for us today because heavy rain is preventing us from getting into the quarry. We've got some nice material out over the past few days

Our team this year includes Kawtar Ech-charay, Khadija Boumir, Driss Ouarhache, @simonwills.bsky.social and @pimkaskes.bsky.social

We're back in Morocco for more fun in the Middle Jurassic. There's been a lot of digging since we were last here: a lot of specimens lost to science and Morocco. But we are still optimistic about finding some amazing new dinos @richardjbutler.bsky.social

Thanks to @eageo.bsky.social to grant me an Early Career Science Ambassadorship 🙏. This allowed me to travel to the 2025 Annual Meeting of @geosociety.bsky.social in San Antonio, see my blogpost below in which I share my experiences, including a great fieldtrip to the K-Pg boundary in Texas ☄️🌊.

🇲🇦 Wrapping up a great fieldwork in Morocco including digging up Middle Jurassic dinosaurs 🦕 & attending a meeting on the protection of the regional geoheritage & a Middle Atlas Geoparc initiative @nhm-london.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @richardjbutler.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social

Amazing work by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and her team on Late Cretaceous ceratopsians from Europe, check it out in @nature.com! Glad and privileged to be part of her research group here @nhm-london.bsky.social 😊.

For those with enough energy left after a full #2025SVP meeting 😁: come check out my talk today at 16h00 in Hall 4! I will show a new geochemical method in studying #bonebeds, i.e. blasting #dinosaurs in Brussels 🦖🦕🔬. @amgc-vub.bsky.social @anneschulp.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

🚨 New job! Last week was my first week as a Marie Curie Postdoc @nhm-london.bsky.social 🇬🇧. Thanks to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social for the terrific start! I’m now diving into my #MSCA 'MORBID' project, where I’ll be using cutting-edge #geochemistry to explore how Mesozoic bonebeds formed, more soon 🦕😀!

📣 🦖Come check out our K-Pg boundary session T152 this afternoon (13h30-17h30 in room 304C) at @geosociety.bsky.social #GSAConnects2025 conference in San Antonio! Full schedule here: gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects25/s.... @paleosoc.bsky.social

🦕 Did you know that #dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers? When they were wiped out from Earth's surface by the #Chicxulub impact, the river landscapes of North America dramatically changed as well! Happy to see this paper out in which I played a small part, brilliantly led by Luke Weaver @umich.edu 👇

💥🦖66 million years ago, an #asteroid hit Earth, ending the age of #dinosaurs. ⏳But what happened in the minutes, hours, and years after impact? 🚨Our new @agu.org G-Cubed study uses ultra-high-res #geochemistry to find out. Check it out here: 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2024... @amgc-vub.bsky.social

🚨Last call for abstracts for #GSAConnects2025 in San Antonio; deadline August 5th! 🦖Check our @geosociety.bsky.social session T152 and our 408 pre-excursion on the K-Pg boundary. Submit here: connects.geosociety.org. 🙏Thanks to @paleosoc.bsky.social @PlanetaryGSA @GSAgeochron @GSA_SGD @GSA_Geobio

Thank you @eageo.bsky.social for travel funding to go to the @geosociety.bsky.social meeting in Anaheim last year 🙏! It was a pleasure being an Early Career Science Ambassador and convening a #K-Pg session to show the strength of geochemistry in unravelling mass extinctions. Read my blog below 😊👇.

Het is stupide dat de VU aardwetenschappen opheft. Kitty Jong in het Parool:

🎬🦖☄️🤠 Check out the interview by Cem Berk Senel and me with some more background on our @docville.bsky.social documentary 'de dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen', that will be released tonight! @vubrussel.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social ➡️ www.vub.be/en/news/docu...

🎬✨ Film Premiere! Our documentary "De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen”, will open #ScienceVille @docville.bsky.social this Thursday! This film is based on the Science Pitch by Cem Berk Senel and me on our @naturegeosci.bsky.social paper on the #dinosaur extinction: 🧵👇 @vubrussel.bsky.social

I am @unimainz.bsky.social this week for the 1st #PaleoIMAGING workshop. Great discussions on high-res techniques like micro-XRF, hyperspectral imaging & uCT on various paleo-archives. Kudos to Igor Obreht and his team for the organisation! Nice to also see familiar faces like @dadevlee.bsky.social

I'm really delighted and looking forward to hosting @pimkaskes.bsky.social - we're going to be using geocgemical techniques to address a range of taphonomic and palaeobiological problems

Very excited to announce that I have been granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (#MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work @nhm-london.bsky.social on the "MORBID" project on bonebeds 🦖🦕🦴🥼! Thank you to my supervisors Profs. @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Richard Herrington, and the NHM for the support 😄 (1).

First post on bluesky and a nice one 😁! Check out our new #Chicxulub paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Katerina Rodiouchkina, using detailed #sulfur isotope analyses from the dino-crater and beyond☄️🦖! @amgc-vub.bsky.social, @vubrussel.bsky.social, @ltuniv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s414...