Some proper coastal fieldwork on the UK Dinosaur Isle this week studying the fossil rich sediments of the Wessex formation! Thanks to Gary Nichols, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social and the lovely staff at the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown for the collaboration and hospitality 🦖!

Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A windy and wild couple of days on the Isle of Wight for @pimkaskes.bsky.social and me, catching up with friends and collecting some sediment samples. Thanks for the hospitality @valdosaurus.bsky.social!

As always there were a lot of cultural experiences along the way, including couscous Friday, unique approaches to transporting livestock, our first meal of sheep brains & liver, and the inevitable speeding fines. Morocco is an amazing country. If you haven't visited you really should.

A successful final day of the Morocco fieldwork full of documenting and prepping the finds, thanks to the wonderful collaboration with USMBA in Fes!

Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last day in Morocco for Team 2026. I was presented with this commemorative plaque by the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at USMBA to celebrate our ongoing collaboration, and we had a nice dinner together in Fes. We will be back next year!

How it started.... how it's going

Did a spot of plastering today @richardjbutler.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social @pimkaskes.bsky.social

An enforced break for us today because heavy rain is preventing us from getting into the quarry. We've got some nice material out over the past few days

Our team this year includes Kawtar Ech-charay, Khadija Boumir, Driss Ouarhache, @simonwills.bsky.social and @pimkaskes.bsky.social

We're back in Morocco for more fun in the Middle Jurassic. There's been a lot of digging since we were last here: a lot of specimens lost to science and Morocco. But we are still optimistic about finding some amazing new dinos @richardjbutler.bsky.social

Thanks to @eageo.bsky.social to grant me an Early Career Science Ambassadorship 🙏. This allowed me to travel to the 2025 Annual Meeting of @geosociety.bsky.social in San Antonio, see my blogpost below in which I share my experiences, including a great fieldtrip to the K-Pg boundary in Texas ☄️🌊.

EAG@eageo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New on the EAG Blog: researcher Pim Kaskes describes his experiences at the GSA Connects 2025 conference in Texas, where he served as an EAG Early Career Science Ambassador. buff.ly/VxObiDE @pimkaskes.bsky.social

🇲🇦 Wrapping up a great fieldwork in Morocco including digging up Middle Jurassic dinosaurs 🦕 & attending a meeting on the protection of the regional geoheritage & a Middle Atlas Geoparc initiative @nhm-london.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @richardjbutler.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social

Amazing work by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and her team on Late Cretaceous ceratopsians from Europe, check it out in @nature.com! Glad and privileged to be part of her research group here @nhm-london.bsky.social 😊.

Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For those with enough energy left after a full #2025SVP meeting 😁: come check out my talk today at 16h00 in Hall 4! I will show a new geochemical method in studying #bonebeds, i.e. blasting #dinosaurs in Brussels 🦖🦕🔬. @amgc-vub.bsky.social @anneschulp.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

🚨 New job! Last week was my first week as a Marie Curie Postdoc @nhm-london.bsky.social 🇬🇧. Thanks to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social for the terrific start! I’m now diving into my #MSCA 'MORBID' project, where I’ll be using cutting-edge #geochemistry to explore how Mesozoic bonebeds formed, more soon 🦕😀!

📣 🦖Come check out our K-Pg boundary session T152 this afternoon (13h30-17h30 in room 304C) at @geosociety.bsky.social #GSAConnects2025 conference in San Antonio! Full schedule here: gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects25/s.... @paleosoc.bsky.social

🦕 Did you know that #dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers? When they were wiped out from Earth's surface by the #Chicxulub impact, the river landscapes of North America dramatically changed as well! Happy to see this paper out in which I played a small part, brilliantly led by Luke Weaver @umich.edu 👇

Communications Earth & Environment@commsearth.nature.com · 12mo ago

🦖Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene. @umich.edu 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

💥🦖66 million years ago, an #asteroid hit Earth, ending the age of #dinosaurs. ⏳But what happened in the minutes, hours, and years after impact? 🚨Our new @agu.org G-Cubed study uses ultra-high-res #geochemistry to find out. Check it out here: 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2024... @amgc-vub.bsky.social

🚨Last call for abstracts for #GSAConnects2025 in San Antonio; deadline August 5th! 🦖Check our @geosociety.bsky.social session T152 and our 408 pre-excursion on the K-Pg boundary. Submit here: connects.geosociety.org. 🙏Thanks to @paleosoc.bsky.social @PlanetaryGSA @GSAgeochron @GSA_SGD @GSA_Geobio

Thank you @eageo.bsky.social for travel funding to go to the @geosociety.bsky.social meeting in Anaheim last year 🙏! It was a pleasure being an Early Career Science Ambassador and convening a #K-Pg session to show the strength of geochemistry in unravelling mass extinctions. Read my blog below 😊👇.

EAG@eageo.bsky.social · last yr.

New on the EAG Blog "EAG Early Career Science Ambassador Pim Kaskes travels to GSA Connects 2024". Read more here: buff.ly/XH0YJhV ‪ @pimkaskes.bsky.social‬

Het is stupide dat de VU aardwetenschappen opheft. Kitty Jong in het Parool:

🎬🦖☄️🤠 Check out the interview by Cem Berk Senel and me with some more background on our @docville.bsky.social documentary 'de dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen', that will be released tonight! @vubrussel.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social ➡️ www.vub.be/en/news/docu...

Docu showcases adventurous and high-tech vub research into the demise of the dinosaurs

Exact scientist and Indiana Jones in one

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🎬✨ Film Premiere! Our documentary "De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen”, will open #ScienceVille @docville.bsky.social this Thursday! This film is based on the Science Pitch by Cem Berk Senel and me on our @naturegeosci.bsky.social paper on the #dinosaur extinction: 🧵👇 @vubrussel.bsky.social

I am @unimainz.bsky.social this week for the 1st #PaleoIMAGING workshop. Great discussions on high-res techniques like micro-XRF, hyperspectral imaging & uCT on various paleo-archives. Kudos to Igor Obreht and his team for the organisation! Nice to also see familiar faces like @dadevlee.bsky.social

I'm really delighted and looking forward to hosting @pimkaskes.bsky.social - we're going to be using geocgemical techniques to address a range of taphonomic and palaeobiological problems

Pim Kaskes@pimkaskes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to announce that I have been granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (#MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work @nhm-london.bsky.social on the "MORBID" project on bonebeds 🦖🦕🦴🥼! Thank you to my supervisors Profs. @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Richard Herrington, and the NHM for the support 😄 (1).

Very excited to announce that I have been granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (#MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work @nhm-london.bsky.social on the "MORBID" project on bonebeds 🦖🦕🦴🥼! Thank you to my supervisors Profs. @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Richard Herrington, and the NHM for the support 😄 (1).

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First post on bluesky and a nice one 😁! Check out our new #Chicxulub paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Katerina Rodiouchkina, using detailed #sulfur isotope analyses from the dino-crater and beyond☄️🦖! @amgc-vub.bsky.social, @vubrussel.bsky.social, @ltuniv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event - Nature Communications

The amount of S released by the Chicxulub impact event is empirically determined to be 5 times lower than previously estimated, with important consequences for our understanding of the climate cooling...

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