For people outside of paleontology: This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.

I recently got the chance to join a research project with the promise of an author credit. After learning the project is being run through SVP, I'm minded to withdraw my participation given the current climate around the society. Gotta lead by example. Specifics removed for the usual safety reasons

This is incredibly exciting!!! What do you mean there were dinosaurs with hedgehog like spikes?! So cool!!!

Geology project proposal submitted, dissertation research is all but approved 😁

Let‘s open this question up: who are the kindest, most wholesome paleontologists you know (Current/retired/historical/whatever)? Who SHOULD be featured in documentaries? I’m tired of doomering, let’s focus on the bright lights among us.

Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.

Been over a year since this study was published & I feel like it didn't make as big of a splash as it should have. Is there something not kosher about it I'm missing?

Anyone else feel like handing out free training & certifications is another sign of the growing desperation of the AI sector to get normal people to use AI for literally anything?

So WeTransfer, which has been my go-to large file sharing service for over a decade, has decided they now own what you upload & can use it to train AI. Anyone know of any good alternatives?

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

They better have cast a great villain actor as Skeletor in this new Masters of the Universe movie. *One quick IMDB search later*

#DINOCONUK 2026 TICKETS LIVE WITHIN ABOUT 1.5 HOURS... and reminder that venue accommodation is open AND that vendor applications are open too www.dinocon.co.uk

Imagine your house falls down one day and it's because a load of parakeets have been systematically eating your mortar

A few hours learning how to code a morphometric analysis in R, & now my eyes feel like the sun. Lots of work still to do, but promising results so far 🤞🦖

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Buzzing to have scored another distinction-level grade on my latest assignment; two for two in my current Earth Sciences module. Fingers, toes, arms & eyes crossed I can keep it going

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

2025 was a riot! 2026 is the year I have to make it all count. Museum rennovations, events, research & of course the final year of my degree. No pressure

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences Ben Lamm has a history of hyping up “world-changing” ventures that ultimately lead nowhere. Cheerleading false techno-fixes like de-extinction in the media distracts from real attempts to address biodiversity loss and climate change.

Confession time; I've always struggled with the idea that Alvarezsaurs used their arms to dig up insect nests. I don't have a data-based argument to back it up & I know I'm going against the consensus, but it intuitively feels off to me. Their arms are SO short compared to other digging insectivores

I actually had a dream about this critter last night, & I'm now fully convinced Alvarezsaurs weren't nest-cracking insectivores, but travelling trouble-makers. More corvid than pangolin

I think my new years resolution has to be no more new projects. So far for 2026 I have; 3 uni modules including my dissertation; at least 2 research projects; the museum reopening; designing a school workshop; organising a science fair; field work & (potentially) volunteering at a big convention

For #FossilFriday , here's my new animated scicomm video exploring one of my favourite sites of geological interest; The Pisco Basin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oG3...

The live premier of my new video begins in half an hour! Thats 4pm UK time, 8am Pacific time, 11am Eastern time #FossilFriday youtu.be/1oG3i1dKg6M?...

Job alert! I would absolutely apply for this if it wasn't several hours outside if my catchment area www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...

New video this Friday!

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

Life is just one big sensory ick and I think that's horrible 🖤

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Must admit I'd never expected myself to be a fan of Birthday Massacre, but this track is FUUUUN

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

Been contacted by an AI startup offering me a trial of software that automates video editing. They really don't know me at all, do they?

I still can't believe lobbyists made responses to climate change seem political or adverse. What do you mean, you don't want to have an insulated house or nicer work commute?

One of the benefits of science shitposting is that its a way to be playful and strange about concepts that can otherwise be dulled through repetition. A good shitpost can unlock a totally new way of grasping a fundamental idea

I've been given 2 Steam codes by the developers of the FPS dinosaur game Ferocious, no strings attached. I'm no gamer & my PC is nowhere near gaming spec, so I know I wouldn't do it justice. If anyone fancies the codes, send me a DM. First come first serve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wie5...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

YouTube has started rolling out AI text summaries of videos underneath the videos themselves. What purpose does this serve? Who asked for this? Just more evidence that the AI hype machine is a solution looking for a problem

Almost done with Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age and while there have been so many stunning sequences, I do gotta say this may take the cake Showcases how incredible the models are but also I'm always gonna love the whole "extinct animal in modern setting to really show the scale"

I feel the meme potential of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge has yet to peak. Seriously though, those Scimitar Cats are perfection 😍

Anyone else feel like those heavy brass flourishes in the soundtrack of the Megalania scene were deliberately Godzilla-coded? #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge ##PrehistoricPlanet youtu.be/AhKMMo5caRY?...

Thoroughly enjoyed #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge . Here are some spoiler free highlights #prehistoricplanet

Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!

The thing that really took me by surprise in this clip is what a strange-looking animal Homotherium actually was. I don't think previous documentaries have done justice to its odd proportions

Counting down the hours, here's my final predicitions / wishlist for as-yet unseen species in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge . Almost guaranteed there are critters featured that didn't even cross my mind #PrehistoricPlanet

This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks

I decided that if I was going to encourage my soon-to-be-born child to follow their dreams, I had to lead by example & do it myself

I love that the Smilodon doesn't just look like a lion with big teeth. It's got a wierd, thick face which is totally true to the skull structure