#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!

It's all so tiresome

#2025SVP attendees! We’re looking for photos from the annual meeting to include in our upcoming newsletter! If you have pictures you’d like to let us use, please drop them as a reply or send us a message! We hope you have a fabulous day 2 of the conference!

Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my latest research at #2025SVP on eco-environmental drivers of crocodyliform 🐊 #macroevolution in South America! Stop by to see some of the current work at @openuniversity.bsky.social on Amazonian biodiversity, supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk ⬇️ #Paleontology #Science

Thank you to everyone who visited my poster yesterday. Looking forward to a great rest of the conference! :) #2025SVP

Hi #2025SVP! I’ll be presenting on the crania of the enigmatic Cretaceous marine turtle from Japan, Mesodermochelys, at B302 in tomorrow’s poster session! Looking forward to seeing you there🐢

I love that so much of the online chatter tonight is about the #Aurora. It’s nice there is still something that can bring us together!

U-Pb calcite age dating of fossil eggshell as an accurate deep time geochronometer 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

My advice for #2025SVP would be aimed not to students, who are excellent in our society and I am sure will do great but on senior academics. During Q&A, please resist the urge to grandstand or grill. Be polite, constructive, and supportive. That’s how we build a stronger, kinder community. #SVP2025

The #2025SVP #SVP2025 field trip to the Jurassic Coast is apparently going well despite some vintage British weather. Photos from @kirstymedgar.bsky.social

ICE is paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to get you to turn on your neighbors

Agree. Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them." This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future. Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!! Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

For those attending #2025SVP #SVP2025: if you have requests of tracks you would like to hear/dance to at the Saturday after party reply to this post & let me know & I will pass them on to the DJ.

Happy #FossilFriday and #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! Join us to explore fossils whose names honor Indigenous territories and peoples, highlighting the importance of place, language, and respect in scientific discovery. 🕘 9 – 10 a.m. MST, 11 a.m. EST 🔗 Zoom: museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir...

Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.

I'll be at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Birmingham (UK) next week. 🦖 We have an exciting itinerary planned including several Meet the Editor sessions. Come say hi and bring your questions to any of our editors at our booth! 🤝 #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleontology

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If you see job openings in the science communication direction and the like please send it my way! That would be greatly appreciated.

Are you not following the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social page yet? Time to fix that!

Its 24% for the National Park Service. And yes, they love the pain they are causing federal workers, which is sadism.

Microbiology lecturer JOB: Dickinson State Uni. MSc required. $55-60k pa. If you're a paleontologist who can teach microbio, you can do the job! Badlands Dinosaur Museum (my institution) works with DSU paleontologists & students on a variety of projects. Join us! prd.hcm.ndus.edu/psc/recruit/...

An early dyrosaurid (Wadisuchus kassabi gen. et sp. nov.) from the Campanian of #Egypt ... Sara Saber @belals.bsky.social Khaled Ouda @gohar.bsky.social @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social Patrick M O’Connor @hesham-sallam.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

New fossil marine croc from Egypt! Wadisuchus kassabi is the earliest known dyrosaurid 🐊 It pushes back the evolutionary origins of the group and highlights North Africa as their cradle. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf134 #Wadisuchus #MUVP #Sallam_Lab #ZoolJLinnSoc

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

Four weeks into the federal shutdown, rent is about to be due and next month’s SNAP benefits are at risk. We previously made this list of ways to give and receive help locally — but need your help: Where else can our neighbors find food? Share any meal or grocery distributions you know of ⬇️

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

But those assholes are still getting paid

As the federal government shutdown drags on, Americans are feeling disruptions in their day-to-day lives. Many federal workers are not allowed to work, so government services have stopped or slowed, and funding for some programs has run dry or threatens to run dry soon. https://cnn.it/3JihRSz

Glad I never bothered to use #Spotify

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Scientists are under attack by an out-of-control, virulently anti-science administration - but they are NOT alone in the fight. @csldf.org will be at the @geosociety.bsky.social #GSAConnects on 10/20 & 10/21. Schedule a free, confidential legal consultation: calendly.com/cmarchesano/...

NPS and USGS booths at #GSAConnects

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

Luthen Rael appreciation post #FriendsEverywhere

So glad we caught the tail end of the #NoKings protest in San Antonio tonight. Wish we had made it in time to participate, but we happily cheered them on. Thanks to everyone to turned out today and stood up for our rights!!

While I obviously find the large urban protests impressive, it's the smaller ones in towns with small populations that make me tear up. That takes a lot of courage and it's a good reminder that people object to this everywhere & geography doesn't define someone's humanity.

If you are going to a #NoKings rally this weekend, I implore you to put some USA iconography on your sign. Bring a big US flag. Dress as the Statue of Liberty 🗽 WE are the USA!

Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities? If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.

Great - now I have days and days to dread and worry about being fired on Monday www.eenews.net/articles/uni...

GeoWorkforce Associate II position (Remote) workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time. doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

This administration wants to punish federal workers. These threats are illegal point blank. We could be working together to end this Republican government shutdown but Russ Vought and POTUS would rather threaten and harass the federal workforce.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

31 USC 1341 is clear. Each employee of the United States Government... furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations. "covered lapse in appropriations” means any lapse in appropriations that begins on or after Dec. 22, 2018.

I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess. Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.

Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/bones-...

Trying to figure out what to do about @geosociety.bsky.social meeting. Without a paycheck I don’t know how to cover the meals and hotel, but can’t get a refund of my registration now and would loose $735. 🙇🏻‍♀️ #furloughsucks