@paleontologizing.bsky.social
Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Honestly, same
23.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 "If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy" 🚨
If they can gut paleo there, it can happen where you live, too
📣 SAVE PALEONTOLOGY AT LEICESTER 📣 SIGN THE PETITION! 📣
Hey folks! The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is now here on BlueSky!
15.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Is this a #twitch multiverse?
IT HAPPENED!!!
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#2025svp
My poster on #Twitch paleontology livestreams is now up at #2025SVP!
Come find me upstairs to talk about how YOU can live stream your fieldwork to audiences around the world (and supercharge your outreach and fundraising in the process). If I can do it, you can too 💪🏽
Scarcely have I arrived at the airport that I ran into two other paleontologists on their way to #SVP2025
At the risk of sounding goofy, this almost feels like a religious pilgrimmage. I'm stoked
It's only open through January 11 (which I find surprising for so stellar an exhibition). Make sure you visit before then if you're in the area!
www.nevadaart.org/art/exhibiti...
It's not often you see a paleontology exhibit in an art museum, but was thoroughly impressed with the clever presentation — especially the life-sized giant ichthyosaurs projected across the back wall. Mesmerizing.
youtu.be/2hkwK3Bu3YY?...
Photo of a HUGE ichthyosaur skull. It's sitting on some sand on the floor, with a particleboard barrier behind it — simple and low-cost display infrastructure, but it really works well in this exhibit
Happy #FossilFriday! Here's an *enormous* ichthyosaur skull from the Triassic of Nevada, USA. This one might be a new species?
I was lucky enough to see this at an awesome temporary ichthyosaur exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno a couple months ago. Highly recommended
THE CARD SAYS "MOOPS"!
07.11.2025 00:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I would have gotten it in like four fewer guesses, but Metazooa was ❌WRONG❌ about our animal being in a certain subfamily when it actually isn't 🤷🏽♂️
🦫 Animal #829 🐦
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2
metazooa.com
#metazooa
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a whole slew of British paleontological accoutrements on the wall behind me -- 3D-printed Megalosaurus dentary and Crystal Palace Iguanodon models, Scelidosaurus skull, Echioceras ammonite, and more
It's our LAST STREAM for two weeks, since I'm departing for the UK and #SVP2025 tomorrow! Tune in now for #Paleontology Q&A, a discussion of why scientific conferences are important, and then our usual Thursday BIRDSday festivities
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Seven books stacked up: Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan, Basin and Range by John McPhee, A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg, Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California by Alt & Hyndman, The Dinosaur Heresies by Bob Bakker, and Dinosaur Odyssey by Scott Sampson
More natural history for the Little Free Library
06.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Looks like we've got a very special interview on today's stream, so tune in now 👀
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Despite incomplete knowledge, the fossil record is amazing. It's a disturbingly easy thought experiment to imagine living in a world where there's no such thing and we would never know about the existence of trilobites or ichthyosaurs. We're so lucky
05.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Once again I am taking my special traditional role in a malacological conference of being the person who asks bewildered students if they're aware that molluscs have a fossil record 😂
05.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0It's SO nice to feel optimistic for once this year. It's been a great day.
05.11.2025 03:07 — 👍 62 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0Here's a link to Filippo's thread on the new paper, too 💪🏽
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Pretty good! I saw a *bunch* of these critters on Sunday, coincidentally enough 😇
🪲 Animal #827 🐲
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.1
metazooa.com
#metazooa
Twitch screenshot of me in my office -- mostly obscured by a fluffy black cat in front of the camera -- with various hadrosaur 3D printed elements and framed scientific figures on the wall behind me
Hopefully we won't have *too* many feline eclipses on today's #Twitch stream, especially since we'll be interviewing @fbertpaleo.bsky.social about his new hadrosaur mating evidence paper.
Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing for live Q&A, paleontological discussion and science camaraderie
The 'drunk Don Draper in pitch meeting' meme except he's gesticulating in front of my SVP conference poster
Just finished my poster for #SVP2025
03.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coulda done better, but four guesses ain't bad
🦫 Animal #822 🐇
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2
metazooa.com
#metazooa
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, gussied up in Halloween livery -- pumpkins, underwater lighting, a life-sized Archelon flipper 3D print, and a certain non-cheloniid marine turtle
It's a Paleontologizing #Halloween special today! We'll be applying a paleontological perspective to the 'Loch Ness Monster' legend — and talking about a *real life* aquatic monster reptile which plies the Earth's oceans even now 👀
Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing for paleo chat & camaraderie
Well, there go my plans for today's stream
30.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with the back wall featuring 3D-printed Diplodocus skulls (in honor of Cary's work) as well as an SVP logo, a framed photograph of Bob Harmon, and various other paleontological accoutrements
We're now starting our FIRST EPISODE of 'The Fossil Finders,' a new series with @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
and we're interviewing @doublebeam.bsky.social, sauropod & pachycephalosaur expert — and also an old friend of mine — about his fieldwork adventures!
Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Bringin' that average guess figure down 👇🏽👍🏽
🐡 Animal #821 🦉
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2
metazooa.com
#metazooa
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with the background featuring a 1/3-scale leatherback turtle 3D-printed model (as well as a full-scale leatherback skull 3D print) and various framed illustrations of Dermochelys
We're having a chill #TurtleTuesday stream on Twitch today, with additional discussion of Liaoningosaurus (they're juveniles!) and whatever else chat wants to talk about.
Join the discussion at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Of course, one of my favorite parts of TwitchCon was walking around with my Velociraptor
Velia is life-sized and paleontologically accurate in every way I could make her — and she made quite the impression on TwitchCon attendees.
How's that for some #SciComm?
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And then there's the panels! I was tapped to do some special Q&A events in front of an audience — and thanks to the @sciantsmedia.com team, you can watch one of them here
www.twitch.tv/videos/25952...
Me and Kasey and the vaquite porpoise model we put together
Me and Liz from iPaintBirbs
Me and Balint of Sciants_Streams and Velia the Velociraptor
I got to hag out with some fellow educational streamers (who happen to be my favorite people on Twitch), like @kaseysnow.bsky.social, @ipaintbirbs.bsky.social, and @sciantsmedia.com
28.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
