Fully recommend. Very cool project and very cool mountain scenery

Harriet B. Drage@harriedrage.bsky.social · 18h ago

Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...

*Already waiting anxiously for delivery*

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide@pterosaursfieldguide.com · last wk.

Funded. Thank you to everyone who backed Pterosaurs: The Field Guide. Closed at $61,525 from 965 backers, more than five times our goal. The book is going to print. Books ship in January.

This already fantastic field-guide just keeps getting better! Please share the @pterosaursfieldguide.com to anyone who might still be interested! Final push for more taxa!

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide@pterosaursfieldguide.com · 2w ago

$46,000 unlocked: a soft-touch matte cover on every printed copy of the book, hardcover and softcover. Next at $48,000: Infernodrakon, a new azhdarchid from the Hell Creek of Montana. Five days left. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

Live footage of me trying to get several pterosaur manuscripts submitted within the next couple of weeks Send coffee and encouragement (preferably the former)

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$14,000. Skiphosoura bavarica is going into the book. Found in 2015, described in 2024, and it closes the gap between Darwinopterus-type monofenestratans and true pterodactyloids. It landed after we closed the manuscript, so it missed the book. Next: $16,000, Ceoptera. https://fossi.ls/ks

🚨Our Kickstarter to fund the Pterosaur field guide is now live! 🚨 This book is a destilation of your Pteros web page but also gioes beyond that! As such you can expect more than 60 illustrations in this book from me! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pte...

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide

Your complete reference to every known pterosaur

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Palaeontology at Leicester saved! Thanks to everyone who signed the petition! However, the School has still taken losses with the shutdown of Human Geography While not as bad as it could have been, it's worrying that we will see more cuts like this across UK academia le.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

Strategic Review: Outcomes for College of Science and Engineering | News | University of Leicester

The Strategic Review process of academic areas within the College of Science and Engineering has concluded, with decisions now ratified by University Council.

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Very cool PhD project on offer at the University of Zurich Zurich is a fantastic place to do palaeo, plus Switzerland is an amazing place place to live. What's not to like?

Amin El Fassi El Fehri@aminff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢🎓Open PhD position on ammonoid evolution 🦑🧬 at the Dept. of Paleontology of the University of Zurich! Interested in building ammonoid phylogenies? Check out the link below for more info. Applications will be reviewed in late June! www.pim.uzh.ch/de/institut/...

This #FossilFriday I am reaching out to possible attendees of Paleo4Alps in Bolzano, It, 19th-23rd July 2026 Myself and Andrea Villa are organisers of the “Paleoherpetology of the Alps and peri-alpine basins” symposium and we are on the lookout for contributors (1/2)

Absolutely thrilled to announce that our @snsf.ch project grant to study the Late Triassic dinosaurs of the Klettgau Formation in Switzerland (pictured below) was approved! Several more fun-filled years ahead on taxonomy, diets and ecosystem disparity! #FossilFriday

New paper alert! Something a little different for me, we investigated how plastic coffee stirrers degrade in fluvial-simulated environments by analysing their microscopic surface textures; the same techniques I use to reconstruct the diets of extinct animals! OA here 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

I'm beyond thrilled to share the trailer for The Dinosaurs, which I got to work on as a researcher and consultant! Get ready to see prehistoric animals, including several pterosaurs, which have never been shown on TV before! #SilverbackFilms #FossilFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

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@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social

Historical Biology@historicalbiology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓 All submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission. See the link below for more information: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing...

*Excitedly tells the wife that I now know what I want for Christmas*

Mario Lanzas@mariolanzas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PTEROSAURIA, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncta... I dedicated to these flying reptiles of the mesozoic 🪁 This art is now also available for Prints and other items at Redbubble/people/mariolanzas 🪁 #pterosauria #quetzalcoatlus #paleoart #pteranodon #sizechart

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

Save Geology at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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A great event and a fantastic start to #2025SVP Thanks to the presenters and organisers!

Richard Butler@richardjbutler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Walking With Dinosaurs evening event with BBC producers and chief scientific advisor @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, expertly chaired by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #2025SVP

Multi-factor/two-step verification is absolute bane of my existence at the moment You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!

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I have recently reached B1 level German classes and I now have 16 ways of saying the word 'the' I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅

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Jurassic World Rebirth is truly a film of all time

News story on our sickly Plateosaurus paper here www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm! Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)

Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

The sauropodomorph Plateosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs from Europe due to the large numbers of articulated skeletons discovered from bonebed horizons in Switzerland and Germany. Plateosaur...

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Today is the 3 year anniversary of one my favourite papers; skull-body size ratios of archosauromorphs, including 🦕 🐊 🦖 and more, so I am shamelessly plugging it again Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Continuing looking into bird colouration and I cannot get enough of the colours of the resplendent quetzal Such a fantastic looking bird Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock

Researching bird colouring for palaeoart research and I google hoatzins This abomination was one of the top results #AIslop

Sharing a meme I made this week for my 🐢 loving partner Such a derpy face 😂

Good start to the day with a 🦕 paper accepted! Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!

Happy Easter everyone!

Our OA article on bite forces of Saurosuchus* with @palaeostephan.bsky.social and @richardjbutler.bsky.social (lead, Molly Fawcett) is apparently a #TopViewedArticle in The Anatomical Record *great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Functional morphology of the Triassic apex predator Saurosuchus galilei (Pseudosuchia: Loricata) and convergence with a post‐Triassic theropod dinosaur

Pseudosuchian archosaurs, reptiles more closely related to crocodylians than to birds, exhibited high morphological diversity during the Triassic and are thus associated with hypotheses of high ecolo...

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R help needed! Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following: [1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label" What am I doing wrong?

Such a cool study! Palaeontology meets Star Wars, what's not to love?

Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · last yr.

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...