#FossilFriday and #OpenDay at The University of Edinburgh
Great lecture on Scotland's dinosaurs and palaeo fieldwork by Steve Brusatte

🏆 Our report, introducing Dearc to the world 'A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs' has won the Palaeontographical Society Edward Forbes Prize for an outstanding early career contribution to taxonomic palaeontology 🎊

Pedri Gonzalez. You are a genius of this game!

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Great mapping. Location abandoned. 1 casualty. Great fun!

I moved to Scotland in 2013, having only ever visited a few times.
The support I've gotten since from everyone The University of Edinburgh & School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh has been tremendous.
And now, truly I feel it the greatest honour of my career to join the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Thank you all!!!

I can strongly relate to this.

200 years ago the first dinosaur was named, in England.
We're still finding new ones...in Scotland!
A pleasure for tom challands & me to join Victoria Gill 💙💛 on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science, talking about an exciting sauropod bone from Skye, found by Tone Blakesley
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Won the pub quiz league

HT: Man City (0.52) 0-0 (0.54) Arsenal

Lamine Yamal is the 2nd best RW on the planet.

Only missing Salah's small space manipulation qualities in the final 3rd.

Salah
Yamal
Saka

Real Madrid need to find some football god and appease him. I also got my 1st projection wrong—he is not a silver talent, the boy's gold.

Officially became a Doctor of Pterosaurs (with minor revisions) 🎓 Finally, a gender neutral title!

Enormous congrats to Dr Natalia Jagielska, the famous ⁦Natalia Jagielska⁩ and now the newest paleontology PhD!
And thanks ⁦Dr Dave Hone⁩ for coming up and doing examiner duties.

Hearty congrats to the newest paleontology doctor, Sofia Holpin PhD!
World expert on phenacodontids, primeval forbears of horses.
Congrats ⁦Sofia Holpin⁩! And thanks Thierry Smith for coming over for the viva!

My first Children's Book just hit the shelves of a bookstore! Follow the story of a lost Blue Magpie searching for the way home, and making unlikely (prehistoric) friends along the way. Distributed by Bookazine in Hong Kong.

Happy Birthday to William Buckland!!

Nah that’s just the clitellum

I got my first job! For the upcoming months I will be acting as an Engagement & Collections Curator 🦴 at the Lyme Regis Museum ⚒️ (the very one Mary Anning called her home) 🐟🐬 Starting today!

Greetings to the newest Scottish fossil: Ceoptera, the 'misty-winged' pterosaur from Skye.
In the Jurassic, ~170 million years ago, it and its pterodactyl compatriot Dearc soared over the heads of dinosaurs.
Congrats Liz Martin-Silverstone NHMdinolab & team:
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

The Guardian feels my pain…

(And could I just take this opportunity to thank the 4.3 billion people who very kindly alerted me to the Tom Holland/Tom Hollander story - and particularly those who said they wished the Spider Man bonus had gone to me instead. Much appreciated!)