What a day!

What would Labour do differently? 🤔

Stegosaurus stenops - why it is NHM research scientist Susie Maidment's favourite dinosaur nature.com/articles/s4155…
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Dino diversity: the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in the USA is where many iconic dinosaurs have been found - Susie Maidment Dr Susie Maidment NHM looks at patterns of biodiversity over time tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our new paper looks into the strength and function of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur skulls using FEA 🦖🦃🖥️ 🚨Oviraptorid crania were much stronger than those of other beaked herbivorous theropods with distinct stress patterns doi.org/10.1038/s42003… Communications Biology #OpenAccess

📰NEW research from Palaeo Birmingham

3D mouth of an ancient jawless fish suggests they were filter-feeders, not scavengers or hunters birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/3d-m…

Almost certainly not a dinosaur skull (or even a fossil).

World renowned palaeobiologist Prof Paul Upchurch is our 2024 Linnean Medal winner! His research has transformed our understanding of the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Huge congrats to all of these amazing scientists, but in particular to my amazing PhD supervisor and friend Paul Upchurch, winning the Linnean Medal for services to science. Extraordinarily well deserved!

The Prehistoric Museum is excited to announce the opening of a new position - a #Paleontology Lab and Collections Manager in our Price, UT museum! Most of the details are listed in the link below. #FossilFriday

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The supplement includes a full list of occurrences and quarries correlated with the stratigraphy of Maidment&Muxworthy 2019, so if you want to explore it yourself, ho nuts. I hope it will be useful to the community ❤️

Morrison fans! My paper on tetrapod diversity through time and space in the Morrison Fm is out now in JVP! tandfonline.com/eprint/VYVPGWB…

Easter weekend reading.

This story and the arrest of the Bosseneckers has been the topic of several interesting text threads and convos with ~20 different colleagues today. While I have NO knowledge whatsoever on any specifics in this case, I can generalize about the reports. Yes, it’s bad practice but

I’ve been reading about the Barkley Marathons, not having heard much about the event before, and the more I read the more mind blowing Jasmin Paris’s achievement is:

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Stegosaurus stenops, a surprisingly rare, yet iconic taxon is Dr Susie Maidment's choice for our latest Species Spotlight column: rdcu.be/dB7Fk

How much was a 4* impact case study worth in REF2021? New analysis by Jon Collett suggests they could be worth between £480,000 (panels C&D) and £880,000 (A&B) over the REF cycle. Thanks Simon Kerridge for review feedback and Jon for insightful analysis! fasttrackimpact.com/post/how-much-…

The surest sign yet that Labour is going to win.

My view of Owen Jones's column this morning. Jones is free like all of us to leave or join any political party (or none) that he wishes. His view of Starmer is shared by many left of centre voters including me - a Green Party member.

However in advocating that people vote…