If you are looking for a mentor or would like to be a mentor for junior colleagues please see the details of the PalAss Mentor Scheme here: palass.org/careers #FossilFriday

Sorry Andrew Church I forgot to tag you 👇

just over two weeks left to apply for this post-doc with me: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/resear… #Biomechanics, #XROMM, #DEM, #opensim, #dinosaurs #birds #evolution #palaeontology, #paleontology etc...

#Ambizione: the SNSF is awarding 75.7 million francs to 92 early-career researchers. They will receive an average of 820,000 francs to lead their first independent research project at a higher education institution in Switzerland. sohub.io/6gqj

Is there anyone credible out there can explain in simple terms why this isn’t a truly terrifying image? Like, why isn’t this headline news almost every day?

📢 #Call for SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 This highly competitive call is aimed at researchers who wish to obtain a position in a non-profit research institution in Switzerland for a period of 12 to 24 months. 🗓️Deadline: 2 December 2024 sohub.io/6afa

There's nothing like doing fieldwork in the desert.... and this is nothing like doing fieldwork in the desert.

As school begins in England, periodic reminder that schools which choose to reward 100% attendance without equally rewarding disabled children who cannot achieve this for disability related reasons may well be breaching the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act

Please remember the rule, folks: Some summers are hotter than others, but every summer is now warmer than if the same weather patterns happened decades ago. The summer of 2024 was still warmer than the vast majority of the summers of Julia's childhood.

Our new paper on the endocranial anatomy of the gavialoid crocodylian Eosuchus lerichei is now officially published online! Led by myself with Sophie Boerman, Gwendal Perrichon, Jeremy Martin, Thierry Smith, Johan Vellekoop and Phil Mannion doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

Come work with us here in Aberdeen! Now seeking a zooarchaeologist or palaeontologist specialising in Late Pleistocene fauna for a 2 year full time fellowship role (with potential for further extension) on our ERC-selected/UKRI-funded project.

Postdoc opportunity in Switzerland 🇨🇭 to work on growth, development and adaptations in response to bipedalism! 🦴💀 #HumanEvolution #PaleoAnth #BioAnth jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/…

Worrying about this is taking up quite a lot of my time. A small % of the UK population voted to prevent my kid and millions like her from being able to move to southern Europe. They created climate refugees and they don't even know it. 👇

As Robert Jenrick emerges as the frontrunner in the contest to become the next leader of the Conservative party, here's a quick reminder of some of his greatest hits

The Beaty Centre for Species Discovery at #MuseumOfNature invites applications for the Visiting Student Awards, a #TravelGrant program for graduate student doing research on plant, animal, mineral and fossil systematics. Learn more and apply today 🔗 nature.ca/en/our-science…

Me tweeting from a sand dune in the Gobi desert.

Hey look Lewis Haller J. D. Dixon .. your words are immortalised at the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia by the Fighting Dinos statue...

Comedy award of the day to Daniel, whose reaction upon seeing this statue of the fighting dinos "it's not usually the one on top that's surprised...."