Dr Thomas Halliday @TJDHalliday Twitter profile

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

Apparently we're at the stage of governmental collapse when Wikipedia needs to disambiguate between our crises. Oh help...

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@j_mcconnachie We had a similar musical in the late 90s that I still hum songs from. It's seemingly ungoogleable because I've tried many times. It brought together lots of Perthshire primary schools, was about the Tay, and was called River of Dreams. I was a villainous invasive mink.

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And this, kids, is why teaching palaeontology and geology is important. A man who knows part of a fact but understands nothing is a very dangerous thing.

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Lee Anderson MP, former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party: "I'm pretty sure that coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants.. it was, well I would argue that's sustainable."

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2022: 200 years since: Mary Ann Mantell's discovery of the first teeth that would later be named Iguanodon, and her husband's presenting of them to the Royal Society. Parkinson first informally used 'Megalosaurus'. The coining of the word 'palaeontology' in a French journal.

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Whooooooa! The window display at Foyle's Charing Cross Road is HUGE!

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@robinince My favourite chant today was "What do we want?" "Climate change!" "When do we want it?" "Over geological timescales!"

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The inevitable has happened! Primary school have figured out that I'm a palaeontologist so I'm going to be virtually talking to 90 reception (age 4-5) children about fossils (in particular dinosaurs) on Thursday! Any and all tips welcome!

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Straight to #1 in the Waterstones list for a week in which it was only on sale for four days. I'll take that!

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@j_mcconnachie I've no idea if it was filmed! It would have been 1998/1999, and we went to what seemed like a pretty big venue, so I think it must have been staged in Perth. There must be some record somewhere...

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The earliest known bunny (or bunny-like animal) lived 53 million years ago in a tropical rainforest in what would become India. At this time, India was an island continent, not yet fully physically connected to Asia. (Ypresian map by Ron Blakey)

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This oughtn't to be remotely controversial or a new idea. I first learnt about conservation subsidies in Costa Rica way back as an undergraduate. They've been doing it since 1996, and have literally doubled the area of rainforest from the low point. It works, and quickly, too!

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@FishStuffinfo We have two choices: either give farmers the option of being paid to bring back nature, with watertight guarantees that won't change as so often in the past, or continue to watch it fade away. I know which I want.

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Fully illustrated, 100ish page Otherlands! Written to be understood by 7-11 year olds, but with enough scientific content for adults who like a lot of pictures. Can't share anything yet, but what's been done so far is very pretty!

BookBrunch

@BookBrunch

7 months

. @PuffinBooks has announced an adaptation of Otherlands for children - it's written and adapted by @TJDHalliday , with illustrations by @gavillustrator (£)

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Not sure how anybody is meant to get the answer to question 17 in this week's Times Saturday Quiz... So bizarre.

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Ooh! Aaaah! Exciting delivery today from @AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks . Thanks to the what seems like hundreds of people that have worked to make this a reality!

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Are you ready for the fern spike? Otherlands is out in paperback, and is a Waterstones BOOK OF THE MONTH! And what an affordable price!

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2 years

Huh. I just got an email saying that the advertised role of Senior Curator of Mammals was not progressing to interview. It said that an alternative post would be advertised soon. Then this advert appears, with the same job description, as far as I can tell, with much lower pay.

Tori Herridge

@ToriHerridge

2 years

Job alert at @NHM_London : Curator of Fossil Mammals Pay: £30,877 per annum Qualifications: post-grad degree or equivalent experience (ie you don’t *need* to have a PhD) Closing date: 0900 on 4th July

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Today marks the 165th anniversary of Eunice Foote's landmark paper describing the interaction of the suns rays and different gases. She found that carbon dioxide gave warmer temperatures, and speculated on the climatic warming effect of an atmosphere with more carbon dioxide.

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1 year

Terrifying head shot, but yes. This is news that is equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking. The Difficult Second Book is on the way.

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

1 year

. @AllenLaneBooks has acquired evolutionary biologist @TJDHalliday 's latest book All the World, "a dazzling, lyrical biography of the lost world of Pangaea, the Earth’s last great super-continent". Read here:

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Publication day Otherlands safari of bookshops! Lovely to see the displays in the wild! @WaterstonesPicc @gowerst_books @Hatchards @StanfordsTravel @Foyles

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@dwb_9 @paulcoxon Eunice Foote in 1856 was the first to identify carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and to suggest that a high-carbon atmosphere would give higher temperatures. But at that time, she was interested in explaining the climate of the Carboniferous, not possible futures.

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

Longlisted for the biggest prize in UK non-fiction! 🤯

Baillie Gifford Prize

@BGPrize

2 years

Well done to @TJDHalliday for being longlisted for the #BGPrize2022 with Otherlands: A World in the Making @PenguinUKBooks @AllenLaneBooks @penguinpress #earth #humanity

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He blocked me a long time ago on all platforms, so he won't see this, but good heavens, Nick Longrich is a problem for palaeontology. He's gone from someone publishing perfectly reasonable papers to a largely unpunished bully to a reactionary spouting anti-scientific nonsense.

Patrick Randolph-Quinney PhD

@KabwePRQ

3 years

Oh dear God. He's at it again. I just don't know where to begin. Current favourite "If people were culturally segregated – marrying based on religion, class, caste, or even politics – distinct populations, even species, might evolve". GOP as a new species?

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6 years

!!! Baby stem-mammals !!! One of those finds that is just offensively good.

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2 years

What a lovely collection of books together in @heffersbookshop in Cambridge! Couldn't ask for nicer shelfmates @Laelaps @gsciencelady @Dave_Hone

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London. The first time I see the aurora is in *London*. Despite the light pollution, it got through. That was incredible. Transcendent.

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3 years

Mind-blowing review in the Sunday Times. Wow.

Times Books

@TheTimesBooks

3 years

‘It could well be the best book I read in 2022’, says @j_mcconnachie , reviewing Otherlands by @TJDHalliday

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Highly Commended in the Wainwright Prize! Very proud, and congratulations to Goshawk Summer for winning!

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

The judging panel also wanted to highly commend 2 titles from the #WainwrightPrize22 , 'Otherlands' by @TJDHalliday Thomas Halliday & 'On Gallows Down' by Nicola Chester @nicolawriting !! Congratulations! #WainwrightPrize22 #JCWP22

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It's really happening!

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

6 years

. @penguinpress snaps up palaeontologist @TJDHalliday 's world history:

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

In the Jungle Book, there are Australian kookaburras, an Indonesian orangutan, South American monkeys, and North American plants. When you pick a pawpaw or a prickly pear you aren't in India.

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3 years

I'm watching The Emperor's New Groove and all the background bird sounds are European. Until I noticed I was thoroughly buying all the technical details.

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Thanks so much to the 424 people who borrowed Otherlands from UK libraries from February to June last year! Every time you borrow a book for free, a few pence wings its way towards the author.

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One of the most important papers in palaeontology you'll read this year from @emmadnn and @mauritiantales . Only 2 of 222 Myanmar amber papers since 2020 provided evidence that their specimen was legally and ethically acquired.

Ethics, law, and politics in palaeontological research: The case of Myanmar amber

Communications Biology - Myanmar amber collection and study in palaeontology is clouded with ethical and legal issues. Here, the history and legality of Myanmar amber use in the literature is...

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

During a chat in advance of a PhD interview about fossil squid, I was told quite seriously that my MSc project being on crocodilians was worrying, and I needed to "pick a side".

Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬

@Davey_F_Wright

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it's illegal for vertebrate & invertebrate paleontology papers to cite one another's relevant studies. paleobotany gets a wildcard. i don't make the rules

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Unboxing #2 ! For all you lovely 🇨🇦 Canadians 🇨🇦, this is the cover you'll see in the shops. Inside, the words are just the same! Available here:

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I said some words to the Observer. They condensed them and wrote them down. This is what they wrote.

Otherlands author Thomas Halliday: ‘Some people have insisted on reading the book backwards’

The paleobiologist and author of Foyles’ nonfiction book of 2022 on Earth’s deep past, the joys of the British Library, and how early four-limbed vertebrates helped him find his feet

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2 years

Otherlands is the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year! 🦖🦕🪴🐚🎉🎉

Foyles Bookshop

@Foyles

2 years

Our Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022: A thrilling natural history of lost worlds—Otherlands by @TJDHalliday @AllenLaneBooks . #fboty22

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Palaeontologist reacts to palaeontological films (Part 1). This was so much fun to watch some clips and record reactions in real time. Of these, I'd only actually seen Ice Age before, though I knew of the existence of all of them...

Palaeontologist Thomas Halliday breaks down prehistoric films

Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist Thomas Halliday looks at how the Prehistoric era has been depicted in movies, including Ice Age, Studio Ghibli's P...

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Unboxing #3 ! The US version of Otherlands is here, complete with brontornithine and the ubiquitous ferns. Available for pre-order now, and will ship and be on shelves on Tuesday.

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6 years

Paper accepted to Proceedings B! Relative rates of morphological and molecular evolution in placental mammal diversification coming soon...

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1 year

Great news that @Waterstones have picked Otherlands as one of the best paperbacks of 2023! Snapshots of wonderful extinct worlds that show us how our planet used to and continues to work - a perfect Christmas present for anyone interested in the world.

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"Hey, you're a palaeontologist? Like Ross from Friends?" Nah, there's a much better fictional palaeontologist in town these days. (sure, the short is called 'Archaeology', but he's lecturing about 2-million-year-old canid fossils...)

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2 years

Amazed and honoured to have #Otherlands on the longlist for the Wainwright Prize! Fingers crossed, and best wishes to all the other longlisted authors!

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

View the FULL 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize longlists below!! #WainwrightPrize22 #JCWP22 @jamescropper 👇🥳

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@ravenscimaven Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin spring to mind as important palaeobiologists/evolutionary biologists who also directly opposed scientific racism. Alfred Russel Wallace, too, who wrote "It is a crime against humanity for a nation to govern another against its will".

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My 5yo has come back from school with a poem he wrote, and a book token because it *won a competition* in the school! Very very proud.

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3 years

Say what now?

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550 million years down, one to go. Otherlands is published by @PenguinUKBooks , @randomhouse , and @PenguinCanada on the 13th of January 2022. Explore some of the most amazing places the fossil record has revealed, with a beautiful set of illustrations by the incredible @BZaiken .

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

#OTHERLANDS countdown - 1/16 More than two full rotations of our galaxy ago, the land is bare, the moon is large, and in the shallow seas of Ediacara, one of the earliest communities of multicellular life emerges from the mud. A long, uncertain road lies ahead. Art by @BZaiken

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6 years

New paper out today in Proc B with @mariodosreis , @asiftamuri , Henry Ferguson-Gow, @zihengyang and @anjgoswami - the disconnect between rates of morphological and molecular evolution in early placental history.

Rapid morphological evolution in placental mammals post-dates the origin of the crown group |...

Resolving the timing and pattern of early placental mammal evolution has been confounded by conflict among divergence date estimates from interpretation of the fossil record and from molecular-clock...

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Of all the three year old's pictures so far, "Daddy being excited and seeing a wren" is my favourite. Look at the little tail!

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

My hand aches for the best reason. More than 200 books signed today...

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@FelicityBryan

3 years

A busy day for @TJDHalliday signing copies of OTHERLANDS at @WaterstonesPicc , @Hatchards and @Foyles ✒️ This wonderful book will be hitting shelves next week!

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Blackwell's newsletter with incredible praise there. "Plausibly, one of the great non-fiction narratives of all time". Right then. Cup of tea and a sit down, I think.

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In the Saturday Times review section - #Otherlands 🪴 is at #3 in the chart! 🍾

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@TJDHalliday

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@LSmonster That's lovely... Have you seen the similarly old (1655) and also rather sad engraving that Ole Worm did/had done of his pet great auk, the *only* known picture of the species from life?

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@TJDHalliday

4 years

🔔New paper alert🔔 We use a network method to look at patterns of faunal similarity among global vertebrate fossil sites from the Cretaceous to the Eocene, focusing on the changing position of India in the global network. It is Chapter 9 here...

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2 years

I'm not sure exactly how significant or temporary it is, but #Otherlands is for now an "Editor's Pick" on Amazon!

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

I've arrived at @morethanadodo for their 'Dinosaurs and Dragonlore' Tolkien lecture tonight. A beautiful space, held up by pillars carved from different examples of British rock, and flanked by scientists like Newton, who looks very confused about Deinotherium.

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@RoyalTyrrell Honestly, one of my favourite single species displays in existence is at the Royal Tyrrell, and is this pantodont mount. It shows a sense of the animal, addresses incompleteness, and is really artistic. Just *lovely*.

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Another 5⭐ review, this time from the Telegraph. Interesting to see one from someone with a *very* different emotional response to past life from me, and yet who still loved the book.

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@TJDHalliday

5 years

Tomorrow at 8pm, BBC Two. I and my fellow @thechoir members @_mariannecj and @IvanBrett take on some cricketers on @OnlyConnectQuiz . What could possibly go wrong?

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@TJDHalliday

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Small personal good news for this weekend has been hitting new heights in the Times ( #1 ) and Sunday Times ( #7 ) bestseller lists. Otherlands is still available wherever you buy or borrow your books.

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@TJDHalliday

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@TomHoltzPaleo Actually, scratch what I said before. I've just remembered Scyphocrinites, the Silurian crinoid with a built-in gas-filled buoy. Mad. Image from Hess (1999)

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

Thanks, everyone, for an amazing evening. Covering everything from the nature of the hero's quest to environmentalism, the prophetic powers of dragons (and dinosaurs?), the power of names, and much more, this was a truly once-in-a-lifetime event.

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George Gordon Byron - poet, supporter of industrial action, father of Ada Lovelace. But also one of the earliest writers to be inspired by palaeontology. In 1821, Byron wrote a short dramatic work, 'Cain', in which Lucifer takes Cain on a tour through scientific knowledge. A🧵

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First sighting today of an Otherlands reader in the wild - not just someone who came to an event! And actually, he spotted me, stopped, and pointed to the back of the book, questioningly.

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One year since I appeared on YouTube for book publicity and instead got marked as a Sid the Sloth lookalike.

Palaeontologist Thomas Halliday breaks down prehistoric films

Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist Thomas Halliday looks at how the Prehistoric era has been depicted in movies, including Ice Age, Studio Ghibli's P...

www.youtube.com

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Sunday Times Bestseller in the first week of release! Thanks so much to all who promoted and otherwise enthused about it. I'm delighted that a book about palaeontology (and one without a dinosaur on the cover to boot) can make a bestseller list at all, let alone that it's mine...

Times Books

@TheTimesBooks

3 years

Dare we hope that @j_mcconnachie ’s rave review of Otherlands by @TJDHalliday , in which he placed a very early bet on it as his book of the year, might be behind its entrance into the Sunday Times bestsellers list? See the full list here:

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Enjoy competitions but are boycotting the football? Well, the #FossilWorldCup kicks off on Sunday as well, just five days away. If you like the @MineralCup , #MarchMammalMadness or #Dinovember , this is for you. The draw has been completed, and the contenders are...

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Amazing to think I've been in the Sunday Times Bestseller list for four weeks solid! Thanks so much to @Waterstones and all the independents that have driven this with amazing displays and enthusiastic sellers. I've loved seeing pictures everywhere from Skye to Cornwall.

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Aha! The first full-length review of Otherlands is out - at Sci Am, from @SteveBrusatte - and it's pretty nice!

A Reverse Journey through Geologic Time, a Tale of Wild Horses and Interspecies Kinship, and More

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

www.scientificamerican.com

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@TJDHalliday

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As a Christmas present, it comes recommended... Foyles Non-fiction Book of the Year (Winner) Wainwright Prize (Highly Commended) Waterstones Book of the Year (Shortlisted) Books are My Bag Readers Awards (Shortlisted) Baillie Gifford Prize (Longlisted)

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Happy #WorldBookDay2024 ! I'm still astounded that somehow I've been able to make this work as a career for the past three years, and am hard at work on the next (two) books. Thanks, everyone, for making this possible.

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6 years

I am still struggling to believe this, but I am officially writing an adult popular science book. Expected to be released in early 2021. Watch this space...

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7 years

Where better to read @RobGMacfarlane 's 'Landmarks' than 3000 metres up in the Andes, driving, strangely, next to the clouds.

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9 months

Thanks to the 96 Irish people that borrowed Otherlands from your local library in 2022 - every time you borrow it a few cents get thrown my way. I'll spend my €7 well.

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This is a lovely bit of evocative geology - a paper that reconstructs the archipelago of the Bristol-Mendip area as it was in the Late Triassic, a little over 200 million years ago, and how it changed over time.

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Several years ago, some scientists who thought that sci-comm was useless presented the 'Kardashian Index', using citations and Twitter followers to decide who was overly followed. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds. Anyway, as of today, they would consider me a 'Science Kardashian'.

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We have entered the karst world. High plateaus, forested valleys with alpine farms, and streams that just... vanish.

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@TJDHalliday

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Jenny Clack's work speaks for itself, and many others have spoken about her generosity and dedication. Personally, I'd like to point to her inspiring teaching - there must be scores of former undergrads who owe their continued work in science, particularly palaeontology, to her.

NHMdinolab

@NHMdinolab

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Very sad news: I've just heard that Jenny Clack, leading expert on early tetrapod evolution and a stalwart of the UK palaeo community, has lost her long, brave battle with cancer. She'll be missed by all of her friends and colleagues, but her influence will extend long and far

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Amazing to be on the shortlist! Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

We are so thrilled to share The COMPLETE 2022 #WainwrightPrize22 SHORTLISTS! @jamescropper 🤩🥳👇 Congratulations to ALL authors, illustrators & publishers! #JCWP22

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Anybody virtually at #PalAss21 ? Fancy something a little different from the usual fare? Then tune in tomorrow morning for an exploration of scientific names and colonial legacy in palaeontology!

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3 years

So this was last night on the palaeontology e-book rankings. Still three months to go until it actually appears, but thanks to all of you who pre-ordered over the weekend!

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4 years

Paper acceptance! I've missed that feeling. It's a little different from my usual fare, so stay tuned for something on ... invertebrate trace fossils?

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@TJDHalliday

4 years

1 - Upload SVP poster. 2 - Check how the pdf will be read aloud by screen readers. 3 - Recoil in horror as it reaches a character-taxon matrix and goes full Flight of the Conchords binary solo. Back to the drawing board...

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The Paleocene - overshadowed by its flashy predecessor, but more relaxed and with the crazy relatives more or less gone. Very much the Boxing Day of Earth History.

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@TJDHalliday

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Visiting the @HornimanMuseum Permian exhibition - a combination of fossils and lovely reconstructions. Dozens of schoolkids raving about dinocephalians!

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2 years

Nice delivery today! The bookshelf is growing...

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

Many of us feel a strong sense of place in the landscapes we know. By getting to know the past, the landscapes around us can let us feel a sense of time.

Waterstones

@Waterstones

3 years

In his lyrical and eye-opening Otherlands, paleobiologist @TJDHalliday invites the reader on a tour of deep time through a series of ancient environments. Here, he reflects on the ways we connect to the places and layers of time within a landscape:

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

Chuffed to see that the Telegraph thinks that Otherlands is the 5th best book of 2022. But will it translate into their columnists advocating substantial and immediate climate action on the basis of the palaeontological perspective? WHO CAN SAY?

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

Come one come all to Foyles tonight, where there are literally hundreds of signed copies of Otherlands, and if that isn't enough, a Thomas with wine to sign some more.

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

Off to Spain for the #OtrosMundos press tour and what do I see in the airport? Good start to the trip!

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

#Otherlands clinging onto the #10 spot in the Sunday Times Bestseller list for the week up to the 12th!

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@TJDHalliday

3 years

@JohnRHutchinson Well, I'm certainly stumped.

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

6 years

Visiting midwife to two-and-a-half year old: "Oh, that's a nice toy. Is it a dinosaur?" Two-and-a-half year old: "No, 's a Pteranodon" You tell 'em.

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

Oh look, another 'palaeontologist reacts' video! This time, dinosaurs!

Palaeontologist Thomas Halliday breaks down dinosaur films

Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist Thomas Halliday looks at how the dinosaurs have been depicted in movies, including Jurassic Park, Fantasia, and Di...

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

3 years

As much of #Otherlands was written in @enfieldlibrary and @britishlibrary , it's so lovely to see pictures of library displays from all over. @BlackheathLibry in Greenwich, @NSCGNewcastle in Staffordshire, the @westonHLC library in Somerset, and @WiganLibraries all look fab.

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

No they aren't (and shouldn't). And no we shouldn't.

The Independent

@Independent

2 years

Woolly mammoths are making a comeback. Should we eat them?

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

I'm not sure what the full story is here, but it seems a bit weird. And I guess there would be less responsibility, and they don't require the same qualifications, but still, it's not really an "alternative post" for those applying if the pay is radically different...

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

7 years

Delighted to be moving to @geology_bham this November as a @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellow. Mammals, extinction, recovery, and biases.

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Dr Thomas Halliday

@TJDHalliday

2 years

Everyone in Slovenia keeps asking if we're going on to Italy or Austria, and being adorably surprised when we say we're staying here for the whole holiday. "But ... why did you come *here*?" Well, it's been pretty lovely so far!

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@TJDHalliday

2 years

Exciting news! Thank you!

Richard Jefferies Society

@RJefferiesSoc

2 years

Delighted to announce that WILD FELL by @leeinthelakes and OTHERLANDS by @TJDHalliday have been nominated for the Richard Jefferies Award for best nature writing published in 2022.

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