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Prof Susie Maidment

@Tweetisaurus

6 years

Hey @RobinMcKie I really enjoyed chatting to you for this article. But how come my male colleagues are 'Prof' (even when they aren't) and I don't even get a 'Dr'? I know it does matter to the article but as a women in #stem it does to me?

How Jurassic Park ushered in a golden age of dinosaurs

A generation of scientists, inspired by the 1993 film Jurassic Park, are spearheading a revival in palaeontology

www.theguardian.com

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Introducing Spicomellus afer, the world's oldest ankylosaur and the first from Africa! The specimen comprises dermal armour fused to a rib, a totally weird morphology, unlike anything else living or extinct. Vid by @vinfernand

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

@EstOdek I wanted to be a dinosaur scientist. And now I'm a dinosaur scientist!

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@Tweetisaurus

6 years

My, what a lot of shit you are talking, Dave! I went to Cambridge and worked 8.30 til 5 everyday, took coffee AND lunch, and never worked a weekend during my PhD. And I submitted in 3 years and 2 months. Now, I have a kid AND a career! And I'm a girl! Can you imagine, Dave?

Dave Blake, PhD

@_stah

6 years

@roselynaguila @lisamdanish @schoppik It varies a lot by institution. At top tier places, you had better work MUCH more than 40 hrs/wk as a grad student or you will not be taken seriously. At lower tier places, grad students as a whole do not average 40 hr weeks.

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Say hello to Pendraig milnerae, the UK's oldest theropod. From south Wales, this dinosaur was about the size of a chicken and lived 200 million years ago. Paper led by @StephanSpiekman with @ButlerLabBham and me out in RSOS @RSocPublishing out later. Artwork by Jim Robbins

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

Patagotitan, one of the world's largest dinosaurs, is on display @NHM_London , opening Friday. I love the exhibition and the artwork, and can confirm it is flippin' MASSIVE. (Thanks to @MagpieTravels for another unflattering photo) #Titanosaur

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

How was your day, Twitter? We excavated an entire sauropod tibia... #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

I'm really thrilled to see @Sketchy_raptor 's first paper from his PhD published today in Proc B @RSocPublishing in which we show that ornithischian forelimbs evolved disparate ways to become quadrupedal. Read it here:

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

It's jolly nice to see our monograph on the anatomy of the Late Jurassic iguanodontian Cumnoria finally out! @NHMdinolab and I started this when I was 3 months pregnant.. my daughter was recently 10 🙄! Anyway, this one got finished thanks to lockdown

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

And here it is! Brighstoneus simmondsi is a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Isle of Wight - the first for 100 years! Many congrats to @valdosaurus !

New species of big-nosed dinosaur discovered by retired doctor

Nasal bone distinguishes herbivore Brighstoneus simmondsi, whose skull was found on the Isle of Wight

www.theguardian.com

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

National Geographic are celebrating women of impact this November in a series of articles online and in print. I'm very honoured to be considered one #nhmdino :

National Geographic

Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

These new spinosaurid fossils are housed in the Dinosaur Isle Museum, which has long been neglected by the Isle of Wight council, and now faces closure. It's not clear what will happen to the collection.

New species of dinosaur unearthed by Isle of Wight fossil hunters - BBC News

About 50 bones of the carnivorous dinosaurs are found on a beach in southern England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

Our new paper, on the postcrania of the Triassic erythrosuchid Garjainia prima, is out today in RSOS. Garjainia was an apex predator with a massive head and a body mass about the same as a lion. Pic by @MarkWitton available here:

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Our new paper: the early-diverging thyreophoran Scutellosaurus, out now in #RSOS @RSocPublishing . @ButlerLabBham & I started this in 2005. Finished thanks to a monumental effort by Benn Breedan and @travenn . Artwork by @SerpenIllus #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

That thing where your former supervisor publishes a monograph on a dinosaur and its locomotion and cites none of your 12 papers on that exact subject

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@Tweetisaurus

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The @NHM_London 's brand new evolution garden really is rather lovely. Here's Fern the Diplodocus glinting in the sunlight this morning, along with a little Hypsi. The garden opens to the public on Thursday!

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Glad I spent 8 years at university so I can answer questions about what dinosaur meat might have tasted like.

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

Hey Morrison Formation fans! Ever wondered what the most abundant dinosaurs in the formation were, based on PBDB data? I did, and I plotted it, so here you go (don't shout at me about taxonomy).

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

The holotype of the monster thalattosuchian crocodylomoph Lemmysuchus in the @NHM_London reptile collections. All the others look tiny alongside this beast!

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Yesterday was Gideon Mantell's birthday. He discovered the first dinosaur fossils recognised as such, and the iguanodontian Mantellisaurus is named after him. Here's the holotype @NHM_London #FossilFriday #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

I am *absolutely delighted* to see this paper out! Please welcome Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaur from the Wessex Fm of Isle of Wight. It is named after @NHMdinolab to say thank you for being such an important mentor, colleague, supervisor &friend

Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the...

The Wealden Group of southern England was deposited by rivers, on floodplains and in lagoons during the Early Cretaceous. Two historically significant ankylosaurs, Polacanthus and Hylaeosaurus, are...

www.tandfonline.com

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Spicomellus is just one of three (3!) new dinosaurs my group will be publishing in the next few weeks.. stay tuned for more excitement!

Prof Susie Maidment

@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Introducing Spicomellus afer, the world's oldest ankylosaur and the first from Africa! The specimen comprises dermal armour fused to a rib, a totally weird morphology, unlike anything else living or extinct. Vid by @vinfernand

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

This rather lovely book from @BloomsburyBooks just landed on my desk... featuring all your favorite #palaeoart with a little bit about each artist and some beautiful, beautiful art. Edited by @TetZoo .. who else?

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@Tweetisaurus

2 months

I'm really honoured and delighted to have received an honorary professorship from the University of Birmingham @LES_UniBham @Palaeo_Bham 💜

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@Tweetisaurus

7 years

So what do y'all think about the view out of my new office window? #firstday

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

I'm excited to see this paper out. Jakapil is described here as a *Late Cretaceous* basal thyreophoran. I reviewed this and I don't think it is. I think it's an armoured ceratopsian, or perhaps a new, entirely unknown clade. Fascinating.

A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs

Scientific Reports - A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs

www.nature.com

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

Hands up if you've run out of steam for 2020 ✋✋✋

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

We are literally descending into fascism.

Government buildings to fly union jack continuously under new rules

Flag currently flown about 20 times a year will act as ‘proud reminder of our history’, culture secretary says

www.theguardian.com

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

So pleased that my 2 degrees, 15 years in academia, 2 awards for research, expertise in my subject and 50 papers on dinosaurs are appreciated by the viewers 🤢🤢🤢

JP

@kinnaird76

4 years

@Tweetisaurus Just a big thankyou you ass in those jeans has made the natural history museum program that much better. Keep it up.

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

I took the femur of Cetiosauriscus for a trip out of the collection today. Moving the leg of one of the largest terrestrial vertebrates of the Middle Jurassic isn't trivial, but if the BBC ask... #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

6 years

There are not many good things about getting up early, but this view has to be the best of them @NHM_London

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@Tweetisaurus

8 months

I use Dr because my marital status is none of your fucking business. When you're Mr, you're just Mr. But when someone says "and is that Miss or Mrs? You can bet your life the answer is Dr"

Anon Opin

@anon_opin

8 months

People who have a doctorate and advertise the 'PhD' after their name are twats. Yes they've worked hard, yes they've earned it but they're still twats. I've got a PhD and I don't go about advertising it. Well, apart from here but this is anonymous.

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

I'm very happy to finally get into the field today with @NHMdinolab and @peterfalkingham to record a dinosaur track in the Triassic of south Wales

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

I shared a tweet recently where a guy made a comment about my bum. A couple of my close male friends told me to ignore it, to not rise to it. And they had the best of intentions. But the thing is, by not calling it out, we let them get away with it, and it becomes normalised.

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

Who likes dinosaur footprints? We studied some really cool ones today in the High Atlas Mountains, found by @AhmedOUSSOU

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

Tonight @SteveBrusatte and I hung out with @ProfBrianCox and @robinince at Broadcasting House. Listen in on 16th Sept #infinitemonkeycage

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

We're currently in Wyoming looking for (among other things) soft bodied insect fossils, and here's one I found today which I was pretty pleased with!

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

It's time for the UK to legislate to protect its palaeontological heritage. We need a law like the archaeology treasure law in place for palaeontological artifacts such as these:

UK experts fear losing access to ice age mammoths Cotswolds site to UAE

Archeologists and palaeontologists say legislation needed to protect major finds championed by David Attenborough

www.theguardian.com

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

@justinevansje @ShelaghFogarty @asifkapadia I know this is meant with good intentions but it is victim-blaming. Have you talked to "your girls"? I bet they've been wolf-whistled. We take it because it's normalised. Or just told to ignore it. But that isnt good enough. It's not on us not to take it. It's on men not to do it

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@Tweetisaurus

6 years

I'm very privileged to get a look at these original Mary Anning letters from the Anning archive @NHM_Library this morning, including a transcribed Conybere manuscript #NHMdino

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

Me and my field assistant in training are off to Utah for some half term dino hunting #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

6 years

Alfred Russell Wallace co-invented the theory of natural selection with Darwin. His statue @NHM_London is under much less demand for selfies than that of his collaborator

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

PhD position on the evolution of ceratopsian dinosaurs with me, @WillsProf and @NHMdinolab , based @NHM_London and funded by @GW4plusDTP available. Open to UK residents/nationals. DM if you want more details!

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

Out of my house before dawn this morning for a very special fossil... I took the holotype of Archaeopteryx, the first bird, off display this morning for @PalaeoPittman to study. It'll be going back on Thursday #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

8 months

Huge congratulations to my best buddy @ButlerLabBham for winning the @ThePalAss President's Medal 🍾🥂🍾

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@Tweetisaurus

7 years

Delighted that as of February I will be joining @NHM_London @NHMdinolab as a researcher in Mesozoic reptiles! Wahoo! So excited!

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

JOB CLAXON!! We in Fossil Reptiles @NHM_London are hiring a new permanent fossil reptile curator. Come and work with me, @NHMdinolab and Mike Day researching and looking after one of the world's most important fossil reptile collections.

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@Tweetisaurus

8 months

That's a wrap on 200 years of the dinosaurs... what an excellent set of talks we have heard over the last three days! Thanks to everyone who came and made it so thoroughly enjoyable!

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

There's nothing like spending two years organising an international conference for this to happen the day before it starts #svpca2022

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

Tonight we are dismounting the holotype of Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis so that we can 3D scan it over the next few days and share the scans with researchers around the world. First up, opening the case. Not trivial. #MantelliScan #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

2 months

Paper titles I can only aspire to:

Filip Piekniewski🌻 🐘:@[email protected]

@filippie509

3 months

Something to read for the weekend:

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@Tweetisaurus

10 months

Look! I'm doing science! In a lab! This is so exciting

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

I'm on @BBCRadio4 's The Life Scientific next Tuesday chatting to @jimalkhalili about dinosaurs. Catch it here:

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific - Episode guide

All episodes of The Life Scientific

www.bbc.co.uk

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

Morning message [paraphrased very slightly]: "I've been looking for a top palaeontologist to talk to but I haven't found one so I was wondering if I could talk to you instead". Cheers buddy.

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

My office is better than your office

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

I flippin' love this amazing article by @michaelgreshko in @NatGeo , which details the incredible advances in dinosaur palaeontology over the past 25 years, and features so many of my amazing and inspiring colleagues from all over the world

See how we’re reimagining dinosaurs in today’s ‘golden age’ of paleontology

Scientists have learned more about the ancient animals in the last 25 years than in the previous 250—from the color of their skin and feathers to how they lived and evolved.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

These eggs are a totally normal size. I'm just really, really small #FossilFriday #nhmdino

Andrew Christopher Knapp

@KnappRew

2 years

This #FossilFriday I thought I'd feature a palaeontologist rather than a fossil, so here is the @NHM_London 's dinosaur curator @Tweetisaurus , pictured with a cupboard full of elephant bird eggs for scale.

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

Want to know how to become a palaeontologist? Check out this handy article new on the @NHM_London dinohub, featuring me!!

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@Tweetisaurus

6 years

All great dino folk. I'm the only woman on that list though. There are a tonne of great female dino researchers out there too. Try @jemilyr @LauraBPorro @ExpeditionLive @VictoriaArbour for a start

Jason Gilchrist

@jgilchrist13

6 years

It's International Dinosaur Month. Check out: @kenlacovara @SteveBrusatte @NHMdinolab @Dave_Hone @JohnRHutchinson @Dean_R_Lomax @BensonLabOxford @ButlerLabBham @TomHoltzPaleo @DavidEvans_ROM @Tweetisaurus @dustydino @jonahchoiniere @TetZoo #dinosaurs #InternationalDinosaurMonth

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

Exciting morning working in the Treasures Gallery @NHM_London . Archaeopteryx and Gideon Mantell's Iguanodon teeth - I got to examine both with cases open #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

11 months

New paper day! We document three new track sites in the Middle Jurassic of the Central High Atlas, including some very large bird tracks... The paper is led by @AhmedOUSSOU , who also found the tracks. Thanks @NHM_Science for funding our trip last October

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@Tweetisaurus

7 years

Skull of the stegosaur Huayangosaurus taibaii from the Zigong dinosaur museum. What a beauty #FossilFriday

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@Tweetisaurus

4 months

Pretty sad to see that the bones we found last April at one of our sites have been excavated and taken illegally, probably by commercial dealers. It's difficult to see how we could have a long-term excavation programme here without more protection for the geohritage of this area

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@Tweetisaurus

5 months

Morrison fans! My paper on tetrapod diversity through time and space in the Morrison Fm is out now in JVP!

Diversity through time and space in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.

Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time and space is a central aim of paleobiology. To elucidate accurate biodiversity patterns in deep time, regional case studies, where sampling b...

www.tandfonline.com

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

There's no better place to understand ornithischian skull evolution than the @NHM_London dino collections: Lesothosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Stegosaurus, Psittacosaurus and Chasmosaurus #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

News today that the MCC has adopted the term 'batter' rather than 'batsman'. Apparently some old white dudes are a bit upset because the term reminds them of fish & chips. So: here follows a short thread on why this matters. 🧵

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

I just submitted the paper from my second longest-running project: @nhmdinolab and I started it when I was three months pregnant. My daughter will shortly be 9.. still, the subject of study has been dead for 150 million years so there wasn't much hurry 🍾🍾🍾

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6 years

Segment of hadrosaur tail with skin impressions from the Campanian of Alberta, Canada. My body parts for scale. #FossilFriday #NHMdino

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

For the enthusiasts out there, here are extracts from my review that explain why I don't think Jakapil is a thyreophoran:

Prof Susie Maidment

@Tweetisaurus

2 years

I'm excited to see this paper out. Jakapil is described here as a *Late Cretaceous* basal thyreophoran. I reviewed this and I don't think it is. I think it's an armoured ceratopsian, or perhaps a new, entirely unknown clade. Fascinating.

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

Here we come Kyrgyzstan! Fingers crossed from some dinosaurs!

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6 years

Doing some filming this morning with this little beauty: Mantellisaurus holotype, one of the most complete dinosaurs ever found in the UK.

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4 years

Doing some photography with @NatGeo today. I love opening up the collections and showing off these beautiful Wealden iguanodontids #nhmdino

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1 year

In Jan 2024, @NHMdinolab and I are hosting an international conference celebrating 200 years of the dinosaurs. Details here: (1/2)

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@Tweetisaurus

7 years

Today I have been informed that @uniofbrighton have upheld a complaint against me for telling other people that I was being sexually harassed. Friends: don't complain about bullying and harassment - you may face disciplinary action.

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@Tweetisaurus

5 years

Wow what an amazing afternoon showing off British dinosaurs on Blue Peter. Live TV is way scarier than talking in front of 200 people. I have incredible respect for the amazing @Linds_bluepeter and Ritchie who do it every week!! I'm off to sleep for 12 hours.... #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

8 years

It's #FossilFriday ! So here is a beautiful little skull from the basal thyreophoran dinosaur Scelidosaurus, in the Bristol City Museum

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

When we are reviewing grants, I think we all should be as enthusiastic as we possibly can be, and only highlight issues if they are absolutely profound. Grants allow work in our discipline to move forward. If we are overly critical of each other, we all lose.

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@Tweetisaurus

2 years

This is good news, but how about extending the Treasure Law to cover the UK's fossil heritage too?

Change to treasure law ‘will keep more artefacts in UK museums’

Revised legislation for England, Wales and Northern Ireland will broaden the definition of treasure

www.theguardian.com

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

This is wrong for all the reasons that people have said in the comments. But I also use Dr because when people say "and is that Miss or Mrs" I can say "Dr" because my marital status is none of your goddam business.

Meghan Daum

@meghan_daum

4 years

Seeing "Dr. Ford" trending reminds me anew of how much I hate when PhDs who are not medical doctors want to be addressed as "Dr." It undermines authority rather than underscores it. That goes for you, too, Dr. Jill Biden.

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@Tweetisaurus

3 years

We @NHM_London are hiring a fossil preparator! Please RT and spread the word:

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@Tweetisaurus

8 months

In the Middle Atlas Mountains, where these fossils are from, most people are subsistence farmers. Because of climate change, droughts are becoming more common and their crops are failing more often (1/n)

Brontops

@Brontops_

8 months

As much as I like to see new specimens of Spicomellus, the thought of losing so much data... 😭

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Excellent first day in the field here in Morocco. We found loads of bone, drank a good deal of tea, and even found a field assistant better at lifting stuff than @palaeojoe .. he even carried my rucksack..

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@Tweetisaurus

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Mark and Georgia @markwitton and @gizz47 are visiting the collections today and obviously I had to show them some highlights...including the giant claw of the spinosaur Baryonyx #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

4 years

Such a shame that someone decided to sell this at Sotheby's rather than to donate this important archive either to the Museum in Lyme or us @NHM_London where the fossils spoken of in the letter are held.

Lyme Regis Museum

@LymeRegisMuseum

4 years

Need your help! We have 24hrs to raise £18k for an 1829 letter from fossilist Mary Anning to W. Buckland. Regards a box of coprolite & details a new Plesiosaur Mary found at Lyme Regis -unique bit of history. Sotheby’s sell it tomorrw 2pm.Pls share/donate:

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There's a new paper describing the Morrison in Montana and hypothesizing the presence of a distributive fluvial system there. I agree - indeed I described and figured one in a paper in 2019. Am I cited? NO I AM NOT. Am I cross? YES I AM

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Our new paper on total group phylogeny of armoured dinosaurs, the culmination of @travenn 's PhD research, is out now in TJSP!! Here's a link and here are the highlights (1/n)

The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia:...

The armoured dinosaurs (Thyreophora) were a significant component of Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, appearing in the earliest Jurassic and surviving until the latest Cretaceous, and fossils of th...

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@Tweetisaurus

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Previously known as the Spearpoint ankylosaur, the specimen has been in a private collection since the 80s, but was acquired by Dinosaur Isle in 2021 and will be going on display there!

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@Tweetisaurus

1 year

I am *absolutely delighted* to see this paper out! Please welcome Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaur from the Wessex Fm of Isle of Wight. It is named after @NHMdinolab to say thank you for being such an important mentor, colleague, supervisor &friend

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Oh wow, what a fabulous article on my #Morrison research from @LauraPoppick in Knowable Mag, also featuring the best field assistant ever @palaeojoe

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@Tweetisaurus

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I'm on #Dinosaur with Stephen Fry in 10 minutes on Channel 5 👇

Channel 5

@channel5_tv

2 years

Travel back in time with @StephenFry and discover a world where Dinosaurs ruled. Dinosaur with Stephen Fry - The new four-part series starts Sunday at 7pm on Channel 5 & My5. Beginning with Dawn of the Dinosaurs 🦖 📺

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Taxi Driver: "what do you do?" Me: *considers lying" "I study dinosaurs" *instantly regrets decision to tell the truth* Taxi Driver: "what, mythical creatures?" Me: *wearily* "no, actual fossil dinosaurs" Taxi Driver: "what, you think dinosaurs were real?"...

James Wright

@jpwarchaeology

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Taxi Driver: "What do you do?" Me: *considers lying* "I'm an archaeologist" *instantly regrets decision to tell truth* Taxi Driver: "Is that like dinosaur bones?" Me: *world weary*"It's the study of past human material culture" Taxi Driver:"I thought they only had that in Egypt"

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We should do ceratopsid taxonomy and systematics using other parts of the skeleton, not just epiossofications that change shape with ontogeny.

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@Tweetisaurus

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We're kicking off our celebrations of 200 years since the naming of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, with a public talk tonight by the one and only @SteveBrusatte . You can come in person or watch online!

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@Tweetisaurus

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Being in the field in Morocco is so amazing. Everyone is incredibly hospitable. Today we got lunch brought to us by someone who lives close by. And he leant us another field assistant (bit rubbish at digging due to lack of opposable thumbs but good at carrying)

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@Tweetisaurus

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Pro tip: of you're thinking about coining a new term in your discipline, run it past a Brit first, just to check it doesn't mean something in Brit slang. There's a lot of Brit slang #megaflaps

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A couple of cool specimens just landed on my desk for #FossilFriday . The iconic claw of Baryonyx walkeri, and a distal tibia of a dinosaur, collected by William Smith (him of the map) and purchased by the museum in 1816 #nhmdino

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@Tweetisaurus

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Dippy is a cast of five specimens of Diplodocus, but is primarily based on a specimen found at Sheep Creek, Wyoming, in 1898. The @NHM_London cast went on display in 1905 and was the first sauropod on display anywhere in the world #DippyOnTour #NHMdino

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@Tweetisaurus

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It's not exactly the Rolling Stone, but it's probably the closest I'm ever gonna get. The front cover of Geoscientist Mag @geolsoc

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"Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?" @guardian : It's in a private collection. We don't work on specimens in private collections. It's never gonna be in a public collection with that ridiculous price tag.

Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?

A Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat – the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?

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Small child large bone. The femur of an undescribed sauropod, maybe referable Jobaria, in the @NHM_London dinosaur collections. Collected by a museum expedition to Niger in the early 1980s. Offspring for scale. #FossilFriday #nhmdino

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I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist. Skills people think I have: - knowing who would win in a fight between Ankylosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Skills I actually have: - explaining why I don't give a shit if your purple plush velociraptor is scientifically accurate

Dr Lizzy Lowe

@LizyLowe

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I'm an entomologist Skills people think I have: - identify any insect or spider from a blurry photo - identify what bit them Skills I actually have: - Googling the right words to get an image search close to the bug you photographed - finding weird bugs that no-one else notices

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