Exciting news! I was interviewed by @currentbiology.bsky.social for their Q & A section, where I talk about the future of palaeontology, dangers of AI in education, social media and science communication. Featuring, my doodles! cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01552-0

Never has a President wagged a dog harder than Trump and MAGA now. To distract from Epstein, the explosion of health and homeowners insurance costs, and the tariffs that are decimating small businesses, Trump is plunging this country into a war and using our soldiers as pawns.

For my friends in Canada: check out this special pre-order deal for The Story of Birds, from my pals at Indigo! I’m thrilled the book is among Indigo’s most anticipated of 2026! Link to the 30% off sale below...👇

Ego and oil, and that’s it, that’s all we really stand for. 🇺🇸🇻🇪

The last day of 2025. An unsettling year, especially for science, medicine, universities, human rights, democracy... But in The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, I wrote this passage. Things can be bad, but things have always gotten better. Best wishes for a better 2026!

Only a few months until The Story of Birds is published! If you can't wait & want one of the first copies, check out this pre-order deal from @barnesandnoble.com Rewards & Premium Members get 25% off Dec 30-Jan 1! Premium Members get +10% off @marinerbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social

Merry Christmas from ICE! Here are a bunch of masked men dressed for war, breaking into a women's bathroom.

I'll suspend my usual moralizing about buying and selling fossils to say... ...it's pretty awesome that Joe Burrow, one of the world's best athletes, is such a dinosaur enthusiast!! 😉 www.espn.co.uk/nfl/story/_/...

If you got book tokens or gift certificates this Christmas, may I recommend these new-ish books, a selection for kids and adults! @jamie-woodward.bsky.social @lsmonster.bsky.social @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social

Lovely review by @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social of my book ‘The Tree of Life’ in the Wall Street Journal today. Free guest link if you’re interested. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Great to see our work at the Oxfordshire ‘Dinosaur Highway’ featuring on this list: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Genuinely heart-warming story.

Bed time for all the good boys and girls in Edinburgh. Merry Christmas everyone!

This thing is a...dinosaur hand??!!

Illinois 1, Trump 0

Remember when Elon Musk and Donald Trump ended almost all foreign aid, terminated cancer studies, gutted American scientific research, fired thousands of government workers? It saved no money. None. It only caused pain and cruelty. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Check out @robinince.bsky.social 's final Monkey Cage. Bittersweet but thanks Robin for all you've done, for scicomm and so much more. And I look forward to your next ventures!

What would it be like to go birding in The Age of Dinosaurs? I imagine, here in this fun field guide for @audubon.org www.audubon.org/magazine/get...

RIP Nenko Gantchev Immigrated to USA from Europe, lived in Chicago for 30 years, owned a business, married to an American Arrested by ICE at his green card interview, sent to private prison. They denied treatment for his diabetes. He died Monday, age 56 abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...

Nuno Loureiro was the best of America. Born abroad, moved to the USA, established a world-class physics lab, taught students, raised a family, became a pillar of his community. Like me and millions of others, not a 'heritage American.' But who cares? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

A review of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse. One of the best things I've read this year. Seriously! defector.com/two-nights-p...

Putting his name on the Kennedy Center, removing his name from the Epstein files. This one day pretty much sums up this wretched corrupt presidency. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Apparently Bill Simpson, longtime Collections Manager of fossil vertebrates at the ⁦‪@FieldMuseum‬⁩ in Chicago, is retiring—after 46 yrs! Bill has always been so helpful, including pulling out the skull of ⁦‪@SUEtheTrex‬⁩ for study multiple times! Happy Retirement, Bill! 🎥: Emily Rieff #FossilFriday

I'm laughing so hard that my dental bone hurts!

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...

Donald Trump is destroying the world's preeminent climate research center. A jewel of American science. Because 'climate change is a hoax' And because Colorado's governor won't pardon the insurrectionist lady who hacked voting machines for him in 2020 eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

1. How President Trump reacted to the brutal murder of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner vs How Rob Reiner reacted to the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk. First, President Trump’s reaction.

🚨Attention Brits and other foreign tourists: If you want to visit the USA to watch the World Cup, go to Disneyland, hit the beaches in Miami, see New York: Then Donald Trump wants a sample of your DNA.

Immigrants are the enemy. People brought to the USA as children should be deported to countries they’ve never lived in. Foreign students who write op-eds should be jailed. Afghan soldiers who fought terrorists with us should be banned. Nobody can claim asylum. But this is ok:

No more radical leftist woke...fonts. Calibri's reign of democrat marxist communist socialist terror is over! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

God bless the many pastors, churches, and people of faith speaking out against Trump's inhumane and anti-Christian immigration policies.

This so perfectly sums up the insane cruelty of the moment: A Trump supporter cheering the missile strikes on Caribbean boats and the killing of survivors, because she thinks this is what Jesus would have done. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...

Who’s that on British television at midnight on a random Saturday in 2025? Mark Norell, showing off the latest feathered dinosaur Filmed in 2004! A few years after this show was produced, I would start my PhD with Mark. And three months ago we lost him. RIP, coolest dude alive

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Giving babies hepatitis to Make America Healthy Again! #maha #maga www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Absurd, petty, totally unnecessary cruelty.

Proud of our president for winning this prestigious and totally real prize 🇺🇸

Celebrate #fossilfriday by checking out this profile of @valdosaurus.bsky.social on the BBC. The medical doctor who's now putting his anatomy knowledge to use studying dinosaurs!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RIP Steve Cropper. One of the all-time great guitarists... and to those of us Blues Brothers fanatics: The Colonel! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...

Score more evidence for Nanotyrannus being a legit species of small tyrannosaur and not a juvenile T. rex: Mature histology in, of all bones, the hyoid. Of the holotype Cleveland skull! Truly innovative work by @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social & team. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'(Somalis) are garbage...When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from' The President of the USA, speaking about a country of 20 million people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

'He once boasted that he would stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses. He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.' And now he's been pardoned by Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

An awesome yet vastly underrated book that never got the buzz it deserved. It's truly original, written in Mark's unique style, and has the most incredible photos by Mick Ellison.

Happy publication day to Alex and congrats!

Don't mess with the Chicago Pope

Special visitor to the lab: our pal @cmarksventers.bsky.social , brilliant Edinburgh artist and dinosaur enthusiast! Cordy has one of the most colourful, original & charming styles. And she wouldn’t even call herself a paleoartist, but she should! Give her a follow to see more of her work.

We're in the age of mammals, right @stevebrusatte.bsky.social? @ncse.bsky.social #Evolution #FossilFriday #Scopes100

As you're enjoying turkey with your family, think of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza. 19 years old, freshman in college, about to board a flight home to join her family for Thanksgiving. Detained by ICE, then deported in *direct violation* of a judge's order. abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...

To celebrate the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark JSP vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: 'The higher-level phylogeny of Archosauria (Tetrapoda: Diapsida)' by Brusatte et al. buff.ly/Gs8wKDO - a primary division of the vertebrate tree of life #PaleoSky

What's behind anti-immigrant rhetoric in the UK: 'About one in five Britons refused to acknowledge that migration had fallen, even when presented with the official data' 'People choose to disregard statistics that do not correlate with their beliefs' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...