Prof Susie Maidment

After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!

Congrats on the paper @doublebeam.bsky.social !

The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution Abstract. During the latest Cretaceous, western North America experienced several regressive and transgressive cycles of the Western Interior Seaway (WIS).

first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

#ThunderDome

New candidate for hardest to pronounce dinosaur species name:

Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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.

The Fossil Files: Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw Discovery of the smallest ever dinosaur acheived quite a splash when it was publised on the front cover of Nature in 2020. The new critter, Oculodentavis, was the size of a hummingbird and reconstruct...

#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

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast How do you choose a name for a new #dinosaur ? #thefossilfiles #taxonomy

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...

World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...

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...

London mayor Sadiq Khan hits out at 'misinformation' as new figures show fall in crimes Sir Sadiq Khan's comments come after renewed attacks from US President Donald Trump - who recently claimed "crime in London is through the roof".

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.

This is so cool!!

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

A series of skulls from earlier to later of Two Medicine formation horned dinosaurs

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

😱😱 Were you in Knightsbridge??

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."
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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

A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia - Nature The pachycephalosaurian Zavacephale rinpoche, from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia, provides crucial insights into the early evolution of dome-headed dinosaurs, including the development of the front...

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

😁 no no no don't change it!

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.

I also enjoyed "Technical session XIV: Reptile O'rama"

You'd have to ask the programme committee... @gondwannabe.bsky.social