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the value of museum collections - this project rapidly snowballed from Ryan Tokeley emailing me while surveying the Carnian collections in the Warwick Museum stores to say there is a specimen labelled as 'fossil shark' which led to a very fruitful fishing expedition #fossilfriday

Richard Dearden@euphanerops.bsky.social

Fan of weird end-Permian-surviving fossil sharks? Check out our preprint describing the first endoskeletal fossils of Carnian jalodontiform Keuperodus brodiei. #FossilFriday doi.org/10.64898/202... Led by Ryan Tokeley (no bsky), based on his great masters project work @nitroshutter.bsky.social

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as @palaeostephan.bsky.social has noted below, latest on Athenaegis @lisaschnetz.bsky.social did a lot of the work, funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk "feeding without jaws" @dragonsofwales.bsky.social produced a stunning reconstruction for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social temporary exhibition #fossilfriday

Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social

Second new paper this week: Reconstructing the oral apparatus of the Silurian heterostracan Athenaegis. Led by @lisaschnetz.bsky.social and in collaboration with many colleagues, including @euphanerops.bsky.social (who rendered the animation) and @nitroshutter.bsky.social

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Tim Morton
@timmorton2.bsky.social

Replying to @paulbernal.bsky.social

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Lapworth Museum of Geology
@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Did you know tiny #fossils once helped solve one of geology's biggest debates? Charles Lapworth used graptolites to establish the Ordovician and end a long-standing dispute. Learn more at the #Museum! Content: Jin Yu. Image: Andy Jones. #LapworthRocks #ThrowbackThursday #geology #geologyrocks

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Armando Iannucci
@aiannucci.bsky.social

I don’t mind people saying they can’t believe I finished 2nd, but I do mind the multi-billion dollar Industrial Unreliability Complex that is AI trying that one. I had to take them on, for the sake of Truth and Journalism. #Taskmaster.

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Ben Williamson
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Raptor Persecution UK@raptorpersuk.bsky.social

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three. New blog ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

raptorpersecutionuk.orgFourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a convictionFollowing the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…

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Carl Zimmer
@carlzimmer.com

Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.

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Raptor Persecution UK
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off. Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

raptorpersecutionuk.orgThree satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland – two tags had been cut offPress release from Forestry England (17 December 2025) THREE WHITE-TAILED EAGLES DISAPPEAR IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES The public are being asked to help the police investigate the suspicious disap…
nitroshutter.bsky.social
@nitroshutter.bsky.social

it was a lot of fun putting these together - would recommend commissioning Andy without hesitation

Dragons of Wales@dragonsofwales.bsky.social

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

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@worcswt.bsky.social most of these are from samples Russell collected from Upton Warren (in part to justify days spent birdwatching there)

Lapworth Museum of Geology@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Did you know the #Museum has a collection of Quaternary beetles from Worcestershire? Did you also know that these were analysed by G. Russell Coope, internationally famous for his work reconstructing ancient climates using these very #fossils? Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #FossilFriday

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Alexander Lees@alexanderlees.bsky.social

This hits hard: "It was, notably, published six months before ChatGPT was released—the demarcation line after which you could no longer assume a sentence had been produced by a human." thelocal.to/investigatin...

thelocal.toInvestigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The LocalA suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

The weather held up for our Warwick field trip today! The group spent the morning at "Guy's Cliff" examining the Helsby Formation sandstone features. Thanks to the trip organizers Ivan Sansom, Stuart Burley, and Richard Dearden for putting on a great trip for our meeting attendees! #2025SVP

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Lapworth Museum of Geology
@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Our new temporary exhibition Feeding Without Jaws is open TODAY! Come and immerse yourself in the fascinating world of ancient fish. We are open 10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 12pm-5pm Sat-Sun and are free to visit 🐟 #LapworthRocks #FeedingWithoutJaws #NewExhibition #SVP2025 #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
@palaeostephan.bsky.social

If you are attending #SVP2025 #2025SVP make sure to visit the stall of the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social for some exclusive merchandise featuring some jawless fish designs!

Lapworth Museum of Geology@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Our new temporary exhibition Feeding Without Jaws is open TODAY! Come and immerse yourself in the fascinating world of ancient fish. We are open 10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 12pm-5pm Sat-Sun and are free to visit 🐟 #LapworthRocks #FeedingWithoutJaws #NewExhibition #SVP2025 #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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Geography at Bangor University
@bugeography.bsky.social

Today marks the #Centenary of the #Dolgarrog Dam #Disaster The village never forgot and UK #Reservoir Saftey Laws were changed because of it Read what our colleague Dr Lynda Yorke wrote about this event & how it shaped the community theconversation.com/when-the-dam...

theconversation.comWhen the dam broke: the 1925 disaster that reshaped a Welsh community and a country’s safety lawsA century after a dam burst in Dolgarrog, killing 16 people, the Welsh village still lives with the legacy that reshaped UK safety laws and its own identity.

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Dragons of Wales
@dragonsofwales.bsky.social

In case you wondered what a palaeoartist’s kitchen table looks like on a Friday night… These 20 portraits will be available as a set of prints in my shop on Sunday. £20 for the set, in case you’re wondering. I’ll post a link once it’s all up and running.