The foot of the #IsleofWight iguanodontian dinosaur Comptonatus chasei and a 125 million year old foot cast also from the island. The island provided Richard Owen with the first good evidence for the dinosaur origins of the tracks. #FossilFriday.

This is a delightful article about an event we all are familiar with. The world needs more philosophical mirth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see salmon back in the Mersey, Goyt and Bollin. Here at the foot of the Cheshire Peak District close to the Bollin‘s source, we see dippers, kingfishers, wagtails, trout, egrets etc. The river is not treated kindly as it winds its way join the Mersey. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great piece on this morning's Today program on Radio 4 about the discovery of the weird and very spiky Jurassic ankylosaur Spicomellus from Morocco, featuring @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social, @ahmedoussou.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

For #FossilFriday & in celebration of all teachers ("K to gray") finishing grades this time of the year, here's me performing a similar task, trying to keep a Late Jurassic sandstone bed with its natural cast of a sauropod track from falling off the outcrop; near Morrison CO (west of Denver). 🧪🦕🐾🪨⚒️

A dinosaur perk was that worn teeth got replaced. A section of the lower jaw of a big iguanodontian from the #IsleofWight shows the process. Tooth replacement was organised in waves known as Zahnreihen, so that large sections of the jaw weren’t left toothless (enlarge to see numbers). #FossilFriday

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

For #FossilFriday a sacrum from a medium sized iguanodontian in the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social. Found at Sudmoor Point on the #IsleofWight by Reginald Hooley a wine merchant from Southampton who also discovered the fabulous Mantellisaurus in 1914. Iggy sacra are so aesthetic.

I’m a week late but it would be remiss of me not to mark the @nhm-london.bsky.social birthday of Sophie the Stegosaurus #FossilFriday 🎂🎂🎂

Dorsal view of the skull of Pinacosaurus, the specimen is still in its field jacket. Seen at the Dinosaurs of China exhibition in 2017. #FossilFriday

What fresh hell is this illustrae.co?fbclid=IwY2x...

Watched S5 E1 ("The Crawl") of #StrangerThings last night & was thrilled to see gorgeous examples of drill holes made by a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) in the trunk of what's likely a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda); Will Byers (Noah Schnapps) for scale. 🧪🌲🪵🐦🕳️

OK then, I WILL promote my book! 'Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast' was first published in hardback May 2020 (gee, was anything else happening then?). But a PAPERBACK edition is coming out in March 2026! Preorder here: www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚

Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾 www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...

Snow on the tops this morning here on the edge of the Peak District in Cheshire. #snow

It's the end of the #2025SVP UK dinos field trip. We finished with a visit to Dewars Farm dinosaur track site (muddy), and the Oxford Uni Museum, where we were lucky enough to get a tour of the Buckland archives and collections. Home for sleep...

incredible! a gorgeously preserved skull from tupandactylus imperator has been described, offering new insights into its dietary ecology and soft tissues 😻 www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/6Hv... (art by maurilio oliveira)

Nothing on the news, but the storm that blew through last night was the worst I’ve ever seen. Trees down all across the village, structural damage (lost a soffit), roofs blown off buildings. I collected conkers from this beautiful horse chestnut a few weeks ago. The pool is new too.

For the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia). Raven 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2023) buff.ly/aEn5huc @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

Sadly I can't be at #2025SVP, and thanks to all the tweeters for keeping us informed. Here are some 3D meshes of dinosaur skeletons I have created for research and outreach, based on 3D data from photogrammetry, lidar & first-hand observation. I hope to have prints of this available soon! #SciArt

Great article about excellent palaeontologist and my good friend @valdosaurus.bsky.social. www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!

A subject close to my heart! If you're at #2025SVP this looks great.

Ready for our #SVP2025 workshop! 🥳

Although #2025SVP officially starts tomorrow, today we have a Triassic field trip to Warwickshire, tours of @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, workshops run by @markwitton.bsky.social & @graphicssci.bsky.social & our evening Walking With Dinosaurs event chaired by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social!

This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course c.org/VPhzVVrHPS Please consider signing

Remember, our official hashtag structure is *year* then "SVP". You can also find our full social media guidelines here: vertpaleo.org/social-media... #2025SVP

Travelling to #2025SVP? Weather looks like a mixed bag, typical for November in England. Unlikely to be particularly cold, but some rain guaranteed. Bring an umbrella 🙂.

Scientific visualisation is a speciality of mine. Illustrations, graphic design, motion graphics. Got lots of capacity. Get in touch via DM or my website (link below👇). #SciArt

Just one week until Birmingham welcomes #SVP2025 #2025SVP: first field trip leaves next Sunday!

Very sad to hear of the passing of Dougie Ross. I had the pleasure of spending an hour or so chatting about dinosaur footprints and thyreophorans when we visited the museum at Staffin on Skye a couple of years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The piece I wrote for The Microbiologist just got published! www.the-microbiologist.com/features/mic...

Blast from the past: Old digital flyer from the early 2010s showcasing some off the palaeo and sci vis work I'd done over the years as a freelancer. Much water passed under the bridge since then, but I'm still available for hire! #scivis #sciart

New paper just out on the histology of Liaoningosaurus where we demonstrate that these tiny animals are all one year old or less www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I can remember the first time I saw a thin section under a microscope. I was fascinated by the science and struck by the beauty of the sections. I couldn't wait to see thin sections of dinosaur bone, so had my own slides made from rolled fragments picked up on IOW beaches. #palaeontology

Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇

From the day job: The monitoring of Prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels is a vital tool in screening for prostate cancer. In this shot PSA is about to leave a cell in the prostate gland and head into the bloodstream. Cinema 4D, After Effects, zBrush, Logic X. #SciVis #SciArt

Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...

Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇

PaleoStu's Movie Reviews: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. When does a movie become art? This Thai film moves at a gentle pace and invites the viewer to drift along with the narrative. Superb sound design. Sensitive, thoughtful filmaking that lingers in the mind. Recommended. 8/10

I create scientific illustrations and animations. Hire me. Here's my reel 👇 #SciArt stuartponddesign.com/reel-1

On this day in 2012 we were at the SVP icebreaker at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. A terrific museum and a great meeting. The field trip to NC and Virginia was superb. We also visited the Great Smoky Mountains after the meeting. Great trip! #FossilFriday

DAY III of the Creation was Carboniferous coal swamps, according to James Bateman, who by 1862 had built an elaborate geological gallery at his home Biddulph Grange. Cast of a 300 million year old Ulodendron fossil, a stem of a giant clubmoss tree bearing large round scars. #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Great article on the Oxfordshire sauropod trackway, with contributions from @dremmanicholls.bsky.social, Prof. Kirsty Edgar and @peterfalkingham.com, who also made the excellent animation. Check out the overhead shot too - very cool 🦕 www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...