All things corals and reefs! Don't miss out on this fantastic Early Career Researcher event hosted by the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social #coral #reef #palaeontology

🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸 📆 13th November 2025 ⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC 🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

"It is by love alone that we understand anything" -The birth of Bran, James Stephens A new study comes from the questions you love to ask. My question "How do vertebral building blocks come together to make different anatomies?" inspired this project ❤️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.

If you missed my public lecture on stegosaurs last night at the @geolsoc.bsky.social, you can watch it here: youtube.com/live/MqSROKj...

Applications are now open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Futures Award! See screenshot as well as application link below: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...

Goldsmith, E.R. et al. (2024) Osteohistological signal from the smallest known phytosaur femur reveals slow growth and new insights into the evolution of growth in Archosauria. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–20. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...