the tortured paleontology department

🐧 Imagine a world without African Penguins.

This #WorldPenguinDay , help turn the tide 🌊 for African Penguins.

👉 Visit birdlife.org.za/african-pengui….

#BirdLifeSouthAfrica #GivingConservationWings #WorldPenguinDay #Penguins SANCCOB Endangered Wildlife Trust WWF South Africa #BiodiversityLawCentre

Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not.

These steps can begin to counteract this inequity go.nature.com/3Jl5xx8

Exactly what we were discussing last night 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Big international conferences are not even playing fields. Some delegates just arrive to present their work.

Some delegates go through a long, arduous, expensive and dehumanising visa process just to be able to show up.

Keeping up with the locals Forest of Bowland National Landscape RSPB

Congratulations, Carla! Read here about how Hadeda ibises find their prey in soil using mechanoreceptors located in their beaks! #Biology #Birds #uct_news #Fitz

Neil Gaiman’s story about imposter syndrome rewired my brain.

We are glad to share our first circular for the IPC7!
We look forward to seeing you all in Cape Town in 2026!

Remember to fill the Preliminary registration form to receive more notices about the meeting ipc7.site/registration.h…

Happy (belated) International Women’s day ✨
Happy to be a part of an awesome community that supports women in STEM 💞 spent the afternoon yesterday with some of my fav female palaeontologists 🦅🦖👸

🐢 New research illuminates mysterious pig-nosed turtle! Rollot et al unveil cranial osteology, neuroanatomy & jaw muscles of Carettochelys insculpta w/µCT revealing unique arterial patterns & osteological variation, enriching knowledge of turtle evolution
doi.org/10.1002/ar.254…

Congrats to Neil Brocklehurst on his new paper exploring avian phylogenetic divergence times across the K–Pg mass extinction in Proc B. The timing is interesting in light of last week's controversial avian time tree published in PNAS. Take a look, open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Now that the paperwork has been signed, I am super excited to share that my image of a developing mouse embryo is going to be the cover of a developmental biology textbook soon!!
#devbio #sciart #microscopy

The humble Dunnock adult and juvenile. Sometimes confused with a Robin!

People who have twitter but never tweet anything

Gave my first plenary talk at the The Royal Society Meeting of Minds conference today, looking at the evolution of tactile structures in birds’ beaks 🐧🐦

Just less than a week to apply for this post-doc to work on African Raptors with myself and Megan Murgatroyd in Cape Town.

Please RT and share with anyone you think might be interested in applying.

Open to all - including international applicants!

Deepest sigh.

No visa appointments until April, conference is in March. These are the barriers that affect the participation of people from certain countries from fully participating in all aspects of academia, specifically attending conferences.