We cover a lot of ground in this one: the ethics of publishing on Myanmar amber, article retraction, and whether Rob has any credibility. It's a good one. Give it a listen 👇

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

#Fossil Files podcast fans!! Today sees the release of Fossil Fails II: The tiny dinosaur with the massive flaw... Get our take on that whole Oculudentavis thing - available now on libsyn and wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/fossil-fails...

Sharing for @Rebecca Hunt-Foster; "Happy Establishment day Dinosaur National Monument! On this date in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the original 80-acre national monument to protect the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry." @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social

How do you select a name for a new dinosaur? Sneak peek on #FossilFriday of the next @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/5Cbz9...

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

There's still a long way to go, but the evidence is clear: our approach to tackling violent crime and its complex causes is working. Violent crime leading to injury is falling in every borough. I'm determined to build on this progress and deliver a safer London for everyone.

I had an amazing time on the University of Birmingham palaeo field course to Utah last week. God I love you America... please don't break...

Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Krzysztof Owocki, Martin Qvarnström & Gerard D. Gierliński (2025) An ornithischian-theropod ichnoassemblage from the Norian-Rhaetian transition of Poland Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113312 doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coming to the end of another University of Birmingham Palaeontology undergraduate fieldtrip to Utah & Colorado. Thanks to the incredible @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social & @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social team - we had an amazing time digging dinosaurs in the Cedar Mountain Formation.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

This episode was genuinely hilarious to make... listen in on all your favourite podcast platforms! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

#FossilFriday A succession (anagenetic?) of Two Medicine Formation centrosaurines from @museumoftherockies.bsky.social: Stellasaurus, Einiosaurus, Achelousaurus

What to see in Georgia🇬🇪? @thefossilfiles.bsky.social is on tour. The Dmanisi cave fossils, some of earliest humans (?) outside of Africa, ~1.8 million years old, here in Tbilisi

#2025SVP #SVP2025 Note: "Your poster should be formatted in portrait (vertical) orientation and not larger than 234 cm/92 inches in height x 95 cm/37 inches in width." vertpaleo.org/poster-prese... .

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

Prepare to meet thy Dome: a pachycephalosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Boum Glacier 2000 | 2023 ✝️ Pyrenean glaciers will be gone within 10 yrs! 🔥 Boum passed away in 2023 and a moving tribute was paid to him last Sunday! france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ha... 'Funny' to see headline from 2020 saying it will be gone by 2040! 😱 www.ladepeche.fr/2020/09/13/e...

Love how this rhynchosaur is so clearly coming in for a hug.

Check out the provisional programme for #SVP2025 #2025SVP - the Triassic symposium was so popular they are running it for the entire day! vertpaleo.org/wp-content/u...

This is one of those fossil specimens that when I saw it for the first time at SVP it literally made me gasp. A beautiful and very important specimen.

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Gould was absolutely right about this. For a sobering thought, how many people on the planet now are competent taxonomists for any group of organisms? Certainly fewer than 10,000. 🧪🌍🌿⚒️🐟 #TeamFish

Reform and Farage aren't the only ones who can set the media narrative. Let's push the facts: this country needs migration.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

I feel like this guy is talking a lot of sense...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

The news that 110,000 fascists are in London protesting against immigration led me to listen to Zack Polanski's new podcast episode with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social, because surely there must be a politician in the UK who can call this shit what it is. It's good: feeds.acast.com/public/shows...

Devon knows how they made it so teeny: the fossil of a very small rhynchocephalian from the Triassic of Devon, UK, is the oldest known lepidosaur and sheds light on the early history of this important and species-rich tetrapod group. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Did you catch me on 'stump the specialist' on Heart Breakfast this morning with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden? Jamie let himself down by asking if mammoths were dinosaurs. Sad times.

Have a listen to our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susie Maidment's podcast- This episode she talking about how her team found, excavated and studied the amazingly weird and spikey #Spicomellus specimen! 🦴 #Fossils #FossilFiles @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Dinosaur #Nature #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP

Get the inside scoop on dinosaur weirdo Spicomellus from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social: behind the scenes, how the pandemic nearly killed it, where to put all those spikes, & dodgy fossil dealers @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Xb...

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

This anonymous random Internet reply guy is accusing me of ignorance for not knowing who he is (for he is sure to be a 'he'). Can any dino people enlighten me about who is insulting me?

Attendees of #SVP2025 #2025SVP: registration now open for two special events: Friday night authors’ event & book signing with @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social @endofthepier.bsky.social & @tjdhalliday.bsky.social chaired by Tom Holland! Spaces limited - check your email for how to register! (2/2)

Attendees of #SVP2025 #2025SVP: registration now open for two special events: Tuesday night icebreaker panel discussion with the Walking With Dinosaurs production team, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social & @tweetisaurus.bsky.social Spaces limited - check your email for how to register! (1/2)

I'm sure he'll be forced to resign too. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last week in Nature: ooo look at my spiky dino. This week in Nature: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BIOLOGY IS WRONG www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

What's up? I'll tell you What's Up, Bluesky! A NEW EPISODE OF THE FOSSIL FILES, THAT'S WHAT! And it's on nothing less than the Triassic punk, Mirasaura. Listen here and on all your favourite podcast platforms: fossils.libsyn.com/mirasaura-tr...

A phylogeny for Heterostraci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Very pleased to see this out, and huge thanks to Emma Randle for leading the study and @fossilrob.bsky.social for pushing it through the finish line.

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We're hiring Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dis... Such a lovely piece about the the behind the scenes written by James Ashworth #spicomellus #fossil #fossilpreparation #dinosaur

Funny thing is, the fieldwork you were proposing wasn't remotely risky at all. With a taxon already named, and bones in the ground, it was basically guaranteed. So it's hard to understand how some reviewers (whoever they were) felt that way...

Once again, we are tremendously grateful to the British Institute for Libyan & North African Studies for their support of this work.