@simonwills.bsky.social
Palaeontologist, dinosaurs, AI and geospatial, World Bank STC
Am no fan of JRM, but fair do’s to him for standing up to this idiot…. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’
Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser
theguardian.com
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
Just saw Roger Taylor at the Roundhouse. Fantastic gig. Brian May appearing at the end was special - as was a version of Bohemian Rhapsody by a South African choir … x.com/east_green_b...
ニードル (@east_green_blue) on X
We Will Rock You : Roger Taylor with Brian May (26.09.2026, London) いやもう涙でてきた…ロジャー、これ歌うのね
x.com
🇲🇦 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
At the end of our fieldwork in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social & @pimkaskes.bsky.social from @nhm-london.bsky.social & Driss Ouarhache, Khadija Boumir, Kawtar Ech-charay & @ahmedoussou.bsky.social from USMBA in Fès. What a team! 😍 (1/5)
#GenevaAirport combined with the shambolic EU entry exit system makes for a fun morning. Three hours to get through immigration. Another #brexit gift that just keeps giving.
Last day in Phnom Penh and time to say goodbye to my colleagues at the Ministry of Interior. Killing a few hours wandering around the Royal Palace and the riverfront. You can see where the sediment heavy waters of the Tonlé Sap in the foreground meet the clear Mekong water.
Early morning start at the Ministry of Environment here in Phnom Penh.
A rather depressing day in Phnom Penh. Toul Sleng museum. About 20000 are estimated to have been imprisoned here by the Khmer Rouge. Only 12 known survivors. The cherry tree is at the Killing Fields where prisoners from Toul Sleng were taken to be killed.
After lots of travel for work this year I think only country with roads in a worse state than the UK is Zimbabwe… here we have Bulawayo in Zim, Phnom Penh Cambodia , Bukhara Uzbekistan and finally Haywards Heath!
Insurrection in Haywards Heath! I think the date adds a nice touch.
Escaping #Tashkent today for a trip down to #Bhukara near the border with #Turkmenistan. Lunch at the Lyabi House Hotel before heading back to the airport.
Nice morning wandering around the State Geology Museum in #Tashkent. Great display of mineral specimens and some dinosaur bit and pieces.
The wonderful Kosmonavtlar #Tashkent metro station featuring Yuri Gagarin and many others. Found out today that until about 2018 I would have been arrested for taking these as the metro stations doubled as bomb shelters.
Last night in Bulawayo for Kimi …. recovering after a day scoring sauropodomorphs with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social
In Bulawayo with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and Kimi Chapelle for a visit to the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. There is no power but we have stocked up on the essentials.
Great piece on this morning's Today program on Radio 4 about the discovery of the weird and very spiky Jurassic ankylosaur Spicomellus from Morocco, featuring @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social, @ahmedoussou.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
How scientists discovered a 165m-year-old bizarre dinosaur - BBC Sounds
Our science editor Rebecca Morelle went behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
bbc.co.uk
If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...
New dinosaur is unlike anything we've ever found | Unique armoured dinosaur discovered in Morocco
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
youtu.be
