Great piece on this morning's Today program on Radio 4 about the discovery of the weird and very spiky Jurassic ankylosaur Spicomellus from Morocco, featuring @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social, @ahmedoussou.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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

🚨 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

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

I’m driving 12 hours through five countries this weekend & my daughter is insistent we must only listen to Christmas radio stations. Send help.

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...

Magnificent artwork from projects with which I was involved in 2025, by @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social @maijakarala.bsky.social

This year, @nhm-london.bsky.social scientists have described 262 new species. Josh talks us though these discoveries, including one by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and I.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfTx...

Last day in the office for 2025. It’s been an incredible year workwise, but as always the greatest pleasure and privilege is the people I get to work with. Thanks in particular to my main partners in crime @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @kirstymedgar.bsky.social for being absolutely inspirational.

Recommended, even if you’ve heard Susie talk about stegosaurs before. How could you ever have enough of Susie talking about stegosaurs?

Some of the best landscapes I visited in 2025, in the USA 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

Yes @plos.org, I’m sure I am an appropriate reviewer of a systematic review of caesarean section rates. This sort of thing is why I stopped publishing or reviewing with PLOS One over a decade ago. Disappointing to see issues haven’t gone away.

I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com about the top dinosaur discoveries of 2025, featuring Zavacephale, Istiorachis, Spicomellus, Nanotyrannus and Huayracursor. Research from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social, Lindsay Zanno and more: theconversation.com/the-best-din...

Would have quite liked to be at #PalAss25 but instead I’m taking my daughter tomorrow to the Gladiators live tour which will I’m sure have absolutely no parallels with the world of academia.

Interesting preprint suggesting that recently described fossils from Brazil described as a new ctenochasmatine pterosaur, Bakiribu, preserved within a regurgitalite, instead represent the gill arch apparatus of an actinopterygian fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Saw my hairdresser, buddy & #2025SVP DJ Tom this morning, who was saying again that the SVP crowd was one of the most up for it he’s ever seen.

Prof Erin Saupe (@eesaupe.bsky.social) has been awarded funding from the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants! The EXTINCT project will develop new ways of determining what causes marine invertebrates to die out. www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

Rob snuck out a @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast on Tues and I missed it! Herein, we discuss AI and whether it is about to replace us, and I express 'scepticism' about some previous AI studies... fossils.libsyn.com You can find us here or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

Jeremy is a wonderful person doing some great science.

A great article about @nhm-london.bsky.social Scientific Assiciate and generally fabulous human @valdosaurus.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will AI replace palaeontologists? Can we use AI to find, classify, and interpret fossils? 🤖🦖🐚 New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social looks at just that for #FossilFriday

Fascinating spotlight on the delights and rewards of a second career in palaeontology. www.bbc.com/news/article...

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Pretty difficult to engage the public with a dinosaur fossils likely to be sold into a private collection and lost to science.

Pretty disappointing to see a Professor of Science Engagement promoting the high-profile auction of a dinosaur skeleton that allegedly might be a new species. www.christies.com/en/stories/s...

Cuts to geology programmes, departmental mergers and shrinking university support threaten the long-term health of the discipline. Now, Jan Zalasiewicz examines the developing situation at the University of Leicester: geoscientist.online/sections/vie... #Geology #Geoscience #HigherEducation

SVP 2025 www.palaeocast.com/svp-2025/ We attended this year's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham. There we spoke to the organisers, delegates and merchants to give you a sense of what it's like to attend one of the world's largest palaeontological conferences. #paleo #dinosaurs

Spicomellus, the Dinosaur Highway and the Lapworth Museum projected onto the University of Birmingham’s Aston Webb building as part of our 125th Anniversary celebrations ❤️❤️. I might never get over this. Excuse me, I just have something in my eye.

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums. www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

Great to see my #2025SVP talk on our team’s Jurassic fossil discoveries on Skye covered as a meeting highlight by Jennifer Harmon in this blog post: communities.springernature.com/posts/highli...

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

'The fall of a prolific science journal [Science of the Total Environment] exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing' english.elpais.com/science-tech... '(It) has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin in 2024'

Regular reminder that the standard of editorial & peer review is likely higher & more consistent at the “traditional” society-run journals than the big clearing-house OA options.

🎉 Children's Book of the Year! 🎉 Gavin and I will be signing copies at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, tonight! And there's mulled wine and mince pies for free, and lots of other exciting authors too. www.foyles.co.uk/highlights/f...

Great article about excellent palaeontologist and my good friend @valdosaurus.bsky.social. www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

Please @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social is there a chance you could schedule the annual business meeting when people outside the Americas could attend at a reasonable time? Scheduling at 1 pm ET would allow west coasters to attend in business hours & allow more easterly & westerly members to attend

Leicester has long been one of the leading universities nationally for palaeontology & geology - this would be a terrible loss, as would the loss of other subjects such as modern languages: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Here's my #2025SVP photo album. It starts with @fossilrob.bsky.social giving his talk, and an amazing photo of him and @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social from c. 2009 when he first started the work (1/n)

We asked @dremmanicholls.bsky.social what exactly needs to happen for dinosaur footprints to be preserved like those found in Oxfordshire. The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...

Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

The end of the final event of #2025SVP - it's been an amazing experience hosting it, thanks so much to everyone involved in helping make it happen. Back to the day job tomorrow.

It's the end of the #2025SVP UK dinos field trip. We finished with a visit to Dewars Farm dinosaur track site (muddy), and the Oxford Uni Museum, where we were lucky enough to get a tour of the Buckland archives and collections. Home for sleep...

What a great time at this year’s @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham! Presenting a talk on mammals, doing the conference-opening Walking With Dinosaurs and the schools events, helming the scicomm table, beaming with pride as my students presented their work, honoring Mark & Dugie.

Gorgeous day on the Isle of Wight looking at footprints, prospecting, and examining some previously discovered fossils on our post- #2025SVP UK dinos fieldtrip. I told you it was sunnier down south... Big thanks @valdosaurus.bsky.social

Check out this #CORDIScovery podcast on how we study extinct animals, ecosystem and evolution in deep time. I greatly enjoyed learning and discussing our EU funded projects: #ECODIV, #DINODAWN, #MAPAS with @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social and Sara Varela!

Have learnt from Andrea Cau that French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet died yesterday, aged 85. Taquet published a substantial amount on north African and French #dinosaurs, including Ouranosaurus, spinosaurids, the dromaeosaurid Pyroraptor and much more.

#2025SVP might be over for most delegates, but Ben Igielman led a large group today to Triassic fossil localities in South Wales and Gloucestershire.

Starting the journey home from #2025SVP. I didn't leave the conference empty handed...

The DJ for last night’s #2025SVP after party was my barber and friend, Tom (who is a terrific professional DJ). He found it quite the experience.