Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇

Having to state my delight in finding out that this book exists. (and yes, this is hardcore theoretical physics, but with really cool concepts a Sci Fi #writer might want to make use of. First time I've learned of the Krasnikov Tube, for example) #SciFiScience link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

How did dinosaurs do it? We plumb new depths for the next episode 🦕❤️🦕

📖Published! Location–scale models in ecology and evolution: Heteroscedasticity in continuous, count and proportion data 🌍 🖥️ 🧪 Read more:https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210x.70203

Grad students! Three more weeks to submit your Paleobiology Summer School application. Don’t forget! We need your application & the letter of support by your supervisor. Questions or do you need assistance? Get in contact and we are happy to help. More info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/apw-apply/

Spent this snowy week in the Canary Islands on a cheap winter sun holiday. The boomers have this 100% correct, it’s an amazing antidote to gloomy Northern European winters.

🚨 New paper! The waves we see at the beach only go so deep, so what shapes reefs in deeper waters? Using the cutting-edge in seafloor imaging, trying to answer that, we found a complex suite of interactions between bottom currents and internal waves. 🧪⚒️🌊 Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Early sponges lacked [mineralised] skeletons. New paper led by M. Eleonora Rossi. Great to have contributed alongside colleagues from @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social , @nhm-london.bsky.social and @mncn-csic.bsky.social. Read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new years treat for all the crab fans out there!

On this cold cold January morning, warm your cockles by listening to the second part of our chat with the one-and-only @stevebrusatte.bsky.social here: fossils.libsyn.com/19-dinosaurs... or wherever you get your podcasts #FossilFiles @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥 Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me! Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

Do you hold an EU or Swiss passport and speak English fluently? Your help will be needed at #EGU26! Our conference provider and partner Copernicus is looking for conference assistants. 👉 Apply here by 5 January 2026: egu.eu/4DNZDO 📸 Florian Heine on #imaggeo

Things I wish I knew before I went to Japan!

Honestly, it’s a slam dunk gift 😂

🎄 What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoilt milk! 🎄

✨ Dear all ✨ We wish you a calm, joyful, and  wonderful Christmas season. May it be filled with warmth, rest, and special moments🎄 🎁 #christmas #season #wishes #vacation

It’s the Christmas gift that keeps on giving 💕

It's that time again! Merry Christmas everybody!

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

I concede it’s a bit late but if you have anyone even vaguely in to astronomy I can’t recommend the “Yearbook of Astronomy” series enough. It used edited by Patrick Moore but Brian Jones has taken over. Full of maps, diary events and detailed articles. My space-obsessed Mum approved.

4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo

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

End of year science thread: a few memorable papers that came out this year. Last year I didn't include any paleontology, but this time I'll start with a paper about early animal evolution that I absolutely adore, although I'm biased as a friend of the authors @egmitchell.bsky.social 🧪 1/7

We have all collectively lost our minds.

🥳 Huge congratulations to the winners of our Best Paper awards! 🎉🏆 👏 Best Paper in Palaeontology:  Congratulations to Giovanni Mussini and his co-authors for their outstanding work! 👏 Best Paper in Papers in Palaeontology: Well done to Raul O. Gomez and his co-authors on this fantastic achievement!

Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

🙏 I grew up in an area where hunting is a thing and it’s literally been no secret that trail hunting has been used an an excuse to go fox hunting since the ban “Oh no the dogs caught a scent and we didn’t realise” 🤢 You CAN gallop around the country side without having to kill a fox

Nitin Kumar has 100% won the darts fashion show this year 🤞 for a long run in the comp.

New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

If you can endure the bad jokes and childish banter, check out my chat with Susie & Rob on the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast! What were dinosaurs up to right before the asteroid hit? @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @fossilrob.bsky.social #fossilfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Q6...

Festive update on chondrichthyan jaw evolution: Evolution of chondrichthyan jaw morphology, from ecological generalists to specialists, led by Ben Griffin, with help from @evopalaeo.bsky.social @euphanerops.bsky.social @emilyrayfield.bsky.social Pablo Milla Carmona and Zerina Johanson

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

We got a new tv because our old one broke During an ad for Amazon a pop up appeared asking if we’d like to add the product to our basket. SO, I’m now desperately hunting through menus to turn that reminder that we’re living in a late stage capitalism hellscape the fuck off.

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Nice summary of our team's recent paper on the osteohistology of the tiny ankylosaur Liaoningosaurus, with words by @emmacaton.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...

Blood donation day - it’s nice to give a little Christmas present. If you can, please consider giving blood. It’s super easy to do, not particularly painful and you get a free biscuit! www.blood.co.uk

This is super cool.

Found a paper with a great explanation and r code for a method I’ve been fumbling at for ages

For reasons that are too complicated to explain, I am reminded of Adam Stuart Smith’s 2005 paper “Are Jaffa Cakes Really Biscuits?”. Here’s his cladogram (it says they aren’t): Full paper here: plesiosauria.com/pdf/smith_20...

We'll be hosting a joint Crossing the Palaeontological–Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium @ucl.ac.uk in London in August 2027, which aims to bridge spatial and temporal gradients between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

I bought my mum one little panettone one year, and now I’m in the trap of shopping for boutique versions at an Italian deli because she deserves a treat and I can’t bring myself back to just regular shop bought for her. I got pistachio this year, it sounds amazing (and I’ll defo get a slice)👌

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow