Bulls now joint holders of the NBA record for most wins a four-game span. #SeeRed

Bulls now joint holders of the NBA record for most wins in a two-game span. #SeeRed

Please credit @mooseallain.bsky.social if you share his work.

TIL

A lovely first sentence in the abstract of this perspective piece which I think Douglas Adams would have appreciated: "Understanding the relationships between long-dead organisms is tricky." It's all in the understatement.

This is super cool.

Joining the ranks of the Kem Kem lobe-finned fish is the giant 3m-long lungfish, Neoceratodus! This genus is still represented today by a single species, the Queensland lungfish, which gets to a substantial 1.5m long. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.

A 125 Ma old log provides a seat. Compton Bay #Isleofwight. Probably Pseudofrenelopsis, an extinct genus of conifer. #FossilFriday

A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution! It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I don’t normally share petitions, but good friends and colleagues are going to lose their jobs as part of the planned cuts to the geology dept at Leicester. Consider adding your signature here: www.change.org/p/save-geolo... An excellent dept that doesn’t deserve to be decimated. 🧪⚒️🌍

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

Shazam but for smells.

The #MrRobot rewatch has commenced. #JustInTimeForTheHolidays

Okay I am getting creative. Snails are everywhere 🐌 2350m up in the Alps, under da sea, and in between. Heliciniae indet, Doriprismatica atromarginata, Aplysia californica

Some snails from work: Cross-sectioned pleurotomarioid, cross-sectioned Campanile, truly behemoth cowry, and ( just casually) the type of Ecphora quadricostata (Say)

I reviewed The Tree of Life by @maxjtelford.bsky.social for @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳 You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY

Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28

Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.

Applications are open for the free NERC short course "Integrative biodiversity discovery" at the Natural History Museum, London from 2-6 March 2026. Deadline: 1 December 2025. More info: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/study/training/integrative-biodiversity-discovery.html #course

‘This is not just about using tools like ChatGPT. It’s about the broader influence of the tech industry on how we teach, how we think, and how we define knowledge.’ Boom! I hear people saying "it's inevitable." but I'm not convinced.

Amorim and Slot both rewarded for resting players midweek. #YNWA

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

🦕We’re delighted to announce that DinoCon 2026 will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Sat 25th & Sun 26th July, 2026!🦖 Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW! More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk

Anyway, Liverpool have a player on their bench tonight called Wellity Lucky.

It was a pleasure to review this work. I highly recommend it for everyone interested in phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data. It is available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke at #LivingData2025 today about the critical role BHL plays in making the publications of small organizations freely accessible. This is a title BHL Australia digitized and uploaded this week, which before now was available nowhere else online. #OpenAccess 🧪📖

Absolutely amazing thread on fossil walruses 🦭 which are a surpisingly large group considering there is only one walrus species alive today!

‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️ For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST! It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The release of the BBC story on this year’s dinosaur track excavation at Dewars Farm means I can finally post these team photos. Thanks so much to quarry manager Mark Stanway & all his team at Smiths Bletchington for being utterly amazing & supporting our work at the site.

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth. (Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com #SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

That's right, folk! THREE TENURE TRACK JOBS IN BIOLOGY AT UMASS BOSTON! You might even be a good fit for more than one! Check 'em out! We'd love to have you!

These scammers need to get their shit together.

There’s no ALD Live in London this year, but you can still organise your own! Over the years we’ve had all sorts of events, from cream teas to Wikipedia edit-a-thons to maker days, so it’s time to get imaginative. Let us know: findingada.com/world... #ALD25 Tues 14 Oct

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture) www.popsci.com/environment/...

Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

I’m writing an essay on death & resurrection (of species, for obvious reasons), I want to include myths of resurrected dead people/animals; this easy for the Western Canon, elsewhere’s is more challenging. Anyone know of non-western examples where the dead are resurrected? 💀🪦🧪 🐋🍃 1/n

[patreon news] The 6-month quarterly physical reward system will be discontinued (due to New US customs policy.) Whole post link : www.patreon.com/posts/139860...

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Something is FISHY 🐟 around here...and it's our latest episode with Dr. Kerin Claeson! Learn how Disney World inspired her to become a paleontologist, what causes salmon to change so drastically during spawning, and so much MORE. 🔊 Listen to Episode #90 now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/keri...

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology: apply.interfolio.com/172502 apply.interfolio.com/172517

Don't make me tap the sign Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔 Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

Well that was excellent. Highly recommend.

Coelacanths on the telly alert: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...