I'll be presenting a poster at #2025SVP #SVP2025 about my recently published work on how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny. Come by at the poster session this Thursday if you want to chat about it! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Bon dia! Algunes postes i albades són rogenques perquè el Sol està a l'horitzó i la llum solar (blanca) travessa més atmosfera. L’aire dispersa les longituds d'ona curtes (blaves) i deixa passar les llargues (vermelles) 🤓. On dirieu que es va enregistrar aquesta posta de Sol? 🦘

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

Many of our student attendees will be giving their first talk or poster this meeting! What advice you give them to help make it the best experience possible? #2025SVP

Looking forward to seeing many of you at #2025SVP #SVP2025 next week @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social! If you’d like to learn more about Opisthocoelicaudia & its relevance to titanosaur palaeobiology, come to my talk on Saturday Nov 15 15:00 Hall 4 🦕🌋 @pdmannion.bsky.social @daniajinn.bsky.social

¡En directo desde el @institutocervantes.bsky.social en Berlín! Diálogo sobre Supercomputación: www.youtube.com/live/PPuVs-3... Y con Guillermo Pérez Hernández, miembro de CERFA, como moderador, y dentro del marco de la @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

And with this, I hope the hype with the T. rex and Nanotyrannus finally ends... In favour of the amazing sauropods!!! 🦕🦕🦕

So that's it. I am officially on the job hunt again with some new skills in my bag including the world of standards and norms, ecolabels, compliance/issue management, target group specific communication, project management, data management, teaching new colleages to name a few.

🏆Por un mundo en el que los premios IgNobel tengan más repercusión social y científica que los otros🥂

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!! 🧪🐡

Last week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Se ha publicado un estudio en la revista Science Avances liderado por mujeres que demuestra que, al contrario de lo que se creía, los óvulos no pierden calidad cuanto mayor es la madre. Al contrario, las mutaciones genéticas causantes de esos problemas, están en el esperma del hombre.

🦕 Help uncover the evolutionary story of Diplodocus, Apatosaurus & their kin! This open-science project will clarify the Diplodocoidea family tree & fund paleoart. Every contribution counts 👇

This new #RSOS study explores the biomechanical and behavioural significance of tails in sauropod #dinosaurs, focusing on the caudal series of the Late Jurassic species Giraffatitan brancai: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology @daniajinn.bsky.social @pashavanb.bsky.social

The #IsleofWight is a world famous dinosaur hotspot... and it's desperately in need of a new museum and Science Park. Help us by signing the petition (either via the QR or at chng.it/4CXPhKLQs2). Watch out for news in the coming weeks :) #dinosaurs

We just published a Giraffatitan tail wagging paper, led by @daniajinn.bsky.social! Interested in bone-on-bone range of motions? Have a look! Fun fact: the Jurassic Park's Brachiosaurus was at least partly based on Giraffatitan

📣Our last work on the ranges of motion of the tail of the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai is finally published!🦕 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

En algún momento se va a tener que tratar seriamente la endogamia y calentamiento de banquillo que existe en el sistema universitario español, que rechaza a investigadores con CV competitivos que llevan años trabajando fuera de España por miedo y desconocimiento. Esto no ayuda a la excelencia #RyC

Another day, another dinosaur auction. A world where dinosaur skeletons can fetch tens of millions of dollars within a few minutes at auctions is not a world where dinosaurs will long be accessible to educate and inspire everyone. My thoughts for @CNN www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/s...

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

Quite how this dorsal vertebra from #IsleofWight iguanodontian dinosaur Brighstoneus got like this is hard to say. Almost certainly trauma caused a fracture which perhaps was splinted unnaturally by attached tendons so that it healed in this peculiar circular fashion. #FossilFriday

Hace unos días pude hablar con Josep Cuní en "Las mañanas de RNE" @radionacional.bsky.social sobre la increíble investigación del primer cololito (materia no digerida fósil en el tracto digestivo) descubierto de un 🦕. Si tenéis 5 minutos este finde, echadle un ojo www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

Highlights of the week: - seeing my name as an academic consultant in the new #WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025 - seeing the latest research I contributed to applied in #JurassicWorldRebirth - having secured a Ramon y Cajal #RyC24 tenure-track contract 2025 is going great so far... 🦕🦕🦕

🦕🦖Let's watch Jurassic World: Rebirth in German! I'm eager to see Jonathan Bailey as a palaeontologist! Thanks @stevebrusatte.bsky.social for helping on this becoming true once again!

"Female-led teams generate more novel and disruptive ideas" Yang et al. (2024) Quantitative Science Studies, 5(4), 861-881. youtube.com/watch?v=Lh4k...

Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, was elected to the Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Division of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina @leopoldina.org. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Un equipo de investigadores del País Vasco ha identificado en Soria los restos de un espinosaurio, que medía entre 10 y 12 m. www.desdesoria.es/articulo/not...

Just picture what Polacanthids would really look like.....They could care less about big dromaeosaurs.

The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

He tenido el inmenso honor de acudir a Estocolmo como presidenta de CERFA a la entrega del premio ACES-Margarita Salas a la excepcional Prof. Dra. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, directora del Instituto Fritz Haber de la Sociedad Max Planck en Berlín (1/2) fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...

It's been 12 years since I received my PhD, and I still don't have a permanent position and my professional situation hangs more than ever by a thread, even though I have a more than competent CV. I'm tired of collecting achievements that seem to be worthless. The current academic system is rubbish.

And here's a second infographic on Iberian sauropods, this time focusing on clade and size. These visualizations are fun to make, but they also have their challenges. It's not easy to find a format that combines information and art, so of course, all feedback is welcome! #Paleoart

Check out our March issue: nature.com/nrbd/volumes... Review and opinion topics this month include: 🦴 Digitizing natural history collections 🌊 Seagrass ecosystems 💻 AI as a way to fill biodiversity gaps 🍃 Biodiversity offsets 🔁 Conservation translocations 🌎🧪

Recreating these body-positive champions in life isn't the only way to make them known; I'm also preparing a ton of visualizations. Here's a little sneak peek! #paleoart

Just the cutest little swamp puppy. Alligator prenasalis, an Eocene friend from more than 33 million years ago. In those warmer times, alligators were much more widespread. This particular reptile lived in what’s now South Dakota. 🐊 🧪

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Hello everyone! On this tread we will show you all of the Thematic Sessions of the #5thPVC If you are interested in some, come, join us and even better, participate!! 🧪⚒️ #paleontology (No particualr order will be followed) www.palaeovc.org/thematicsess...

This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

Veranstaltung in Spanisch mit deutscher Übersetzung* No te pierdas este evento en el que Ana, una de nuestras organizadoras, y @daniajinn.bsky.social, una de nuestras previas presentadoras, hablarán sobre los retos a los que nos enfrentamos las mujeres en la ciencia. Más info 👀👇🏼 🧵1/

Con motivo del #8M vamos a participar en la Embajada de España en Berlín en una mesa rendonda sobre el papel de las mujeres en Ciencia y las vicisitudes que nos encontramos. Si queréis asistir aquí está el link para el registro, pero también se retransmitirá online: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢We have been invited to write a comment article in @nature.com reviews biodiversity on the potential of digitisation as a research tool, especially in museum collections with a colonial past. Enjoy, and contact us if you have questions or comments! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

EEVEE tests 🦖

We're excited about a new undergrad research project analysing 19 year old data from elephants in Thailand. We'd measured 3D ground reaction forces (16 forceplates!) and 3D motion capture of 16 markers around each fore/hind foot. We're using this to test ideas about how foot (pad) stiffness works.

Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉 We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

An enormous and magnificent thread🦕🦕🦕

New sauropod species from #Romania rewrite Europe's dinosaur history! Led by @daniajinn.bsky.social, the discovery of 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 and 𝘜𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪 challenges "island dwarfism" and reveals links to Africa, Asia and South America. 🦕 🔗 Learn more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

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New OA paper just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org in which Xu Xing and review the current state-of-play with respect to feather origins, highlighting areas of conflict and consensus and suggesting some (hopefully) constructive ways forward 🪶🪶🪶 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper led by @daniajinn.bsky.social (+Zoltan Csiki & Paul Upchurch) in which we revise the latest Cretaceous Romanian titanosaur sauropods, including the largest phylogeny of the group, and revised view of their palaeobiogeography: doi.org/10.1080/1477... (@es-ucl.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org)