Oliver Weeks
@palaeo-olly.bsky.social
MSci Palaeontology and Evolution graduate | Co-Founder of Emanya Fossil Preparation and Conservation | Indoor Meetings Sec Yorkshire Geological Society | Studying Whale Jaw Function and Rhaetian Microvertebrates | He/Him
Huge thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social & @palaeo-olly.bsky.social at Emanya Fossil Prep for setting up the new UoB fossil preparation lab today! Looking forward to running our first student training soon! Thanks also to Kate & Mihai at Zoic for all the support & UoB Alumni Fund for funding.
Join us next month on the 19th March at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Professor Michael Benton. How has the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline? New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted...
Join us next Wednesday (4th Feb) at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Dr. Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social In this talk we’ll look at whether very large eruptions can be treated as scaled up versions of moderate volume historical eruptions or whether they should be treated as fundamentally...
Finished this awesome mid-devonian Pterichthyodes "Ptessa" recently. #achanarras #Scotland #fossilfish #notadinosaur #fossilfriday #Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation
Thanks to everyone who helped deliver a great #PalAss2025. And big congrats to lab member @harryberks.bsky.social for winning one of the poster prizes for his study of mammalian jaw function and constraint 👏 🏆
So privileged to have worked with the team on this amazing dinosaur.
Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · last yr.Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
For #fossilfriday my first paper just dropped, published by @geolassoc.bsky.social with @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social. We found a mixed terrestrial and marine fauna with complex ecological implications and a Rhaetian age for these Holwell fissures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures
Dating the Mesozoic-aged fissure deposits around Bristol and South Wales has been problematic, with ages of the older examples disputed as either Carn…
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Finished this ichthyosaur paddle a little while back. Really enjoyed working on this. #ichthyosaur #fossil #fossilprep #notadinosaur #marinereptile
Lunch at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with Mike Benton. Then new museum displays in Cirencester showcasing many of the finds from the Mammoth Graveyard site over the summer. A return dig has been confirmed for 2025. With @palaeo-olly.bsky.social @acsmillen.bsky.social #mammoth #tuskforce
This has been an amazing week working with a fantastic team.
Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's the end of an extremely successful week here in Morocco. We set up the prep lab at USMBA and prepped, catalogued and described a bunch of stuff. I even attempted to draw an ankylosaur. Now, the writing... @richardjbutler.bsky.social @afossilpreparator.bsky.social
Amazing successful day here in Morocco setting up a prep lab with our collaborators at USMBA. We even managed to start prepping some new Spicomellus material! Big, big thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social and Kate @Zoic Palaeotech! Impossible without their hard work! @richardjbutler.bsky.social
Pre-assembly for a new preparation lab, in Fes, Morocco on the hotel floor with Susie @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and Richard @richardjbutler.bsky.social #fossils #dinosaurs #fossilprep #zoicpalaeotech
Happy New Year! For the first post of the year here's an ichthyosaur found on the Jurassic coast, Uk by Ben Daly now completed and returned to them. Prep done using ZOIC PalaeoTech The Maia and The Balaur.
Late #fossilfriday - take a look at this...interesting museum display I found a few months ago 10/10 for effort
This lovely #Coccosteus was a placoderm, or armoured fish, which lived in the seas of the Devonian (~400 million years ago). This one was found in the Caithness Flagstones at Achanarras - Scotland. #fossilfriday 106 hours of prep time.
For #fossilfriday here's the most recent ammonite I've prepped - a Sigaloceras from Cerney Wick, found this summer next to a mammoth bone or two.
