So excited for the paper describing my and Dr Michelle Lawing's ppgm R package to come out in time for the end of #2025SVP ! If you're interested in using the PPGM method, this is the paper to read, and please come find me at the conference if you want to chat #R

New snake just dropped! 🐍

Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini. 🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

Standing near the fossil statues at Crystal Palace park, shaking my head so everyone knows I know they're inaccurate. In all seriousness, was super cool to see these icons of Victorian palaeontology. Featuring an iguanodon, plesiosaur, ichthyosaur, and a mosasaur (possibly...)

So incredibly disappointed by Texas A&M. So much for academic freedom.

The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉 We kicked things off with two fantastic workshop sessions: 📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology and ecology 🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses Big thanks to all our speakers and participants - spot yourself below! #CPEGCPB25

Happy Pride! 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 I hope everyone has a great Pride month! Here is a lively pair of Deinonychus! #paleoart #dinosaurs #pride2025 #pride

ABC news online piece about how our snake-handling course and education efforts are debunking persistent snake myths and combating snake misinformation. #SnakesOfOz #VenomousSnakes #Snakes #SnakeEducation #HumanSnakeConflict www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

To celebrate UK Pride Month 2025, we are relaunching our Rainbow Research series to promote the work of LGBTQIA+ researchers around the world🌈 Find out here how to contribute!👇 buff.ly/SF9l8vW 🧪🌍

NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.

Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough. Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A pair of Diplocaulus magnicornis swimming in a flooded Early Permian forest alongside a bunch of other animals like a small Eryops larvae Diplocaulus magnicornis was a lepospondyl (which is a weird, likely polyphyletic group) that is famous for its weird boomerang shaped head.

Happy Earth Day! 🌍🐍 Snakes are vital for our planet, controlling pests, balancing food webs, & indicating healthy ecosystems. Protecting them helps us all! Learn 10 ways to #SaveTheSnakes: savethesnakes.org/earthday #WildlifeConservation #EarthDay

In addition to what others have posted there are some folks (who I can vouch for) tracking the terminated NSF grants to facilitate coordinated responses, media coverage, etc: Form to add a terminated grant: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... Current grants on the list: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Spontaneous walk in the park after work and was rewarded with a sighting of this beautiful copperhead! The first wild copperhead I've ever seen 🐍😍 Luckily I spotted this beauty before a person and their dog passed by and scared it into the bushes...

Colossal Biosciences’s "de-extinction" news is just the latest in a slew of eyebrow-raising claims by privately funded researchers. Is the bar for belief lower when those making the claims have a lot of money, wonders Jonathan R. Goodman

The lack of diversity in Geosciences is a long-standing issue. #Womeninstem 🧪⚒️ paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/f...

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

Spending the next how many months telling people this...

So cool. Saw a Rough Green Snake at St. Marks Wildlife Refuge devour a caterpillar. These are rare snakes to see on the ground and a lifer for me. 1/3

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

Libraries and museums are so important for science outreach and public education, and they were already severely underfunded. This is heartbreaking.

Trans rights are human rights!

Some beautiful snakes of East Texas, everyone but the Nerodia was very polite. 🐍 Buttermilk racer - Coluber constrictor anthicus Slowinski's corn snake - Pantherophis emoryi slowinskii Coachwhip - Masticophis flagellum Broadbanded water snake - Nerodia fasciata

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪

Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month

Happy Lunar New Year, year of the snake! Hopefully this means good things for this year 🐍🎆🐍 Ada has her own opinions already