Now that is wonderful! With all the pessimism about AI stealing our jobs as writers, and people no longer reading books, this is super uplifting to hear! Say hi to your students! Tell them to get in touch with me if they want to chat dinos!
If you're watching the stunning new @netflix.com series The Dinosaurs, which is 'charting the rise and fall of the dinosaurs'...
Maybe you'd be interested in reading the book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs!
Could it have maybe helped inspire the series? 🤷😉
For #FossilFriday we welcomed lab alum Kim Kean back to @GeosciencesEd!
Kim did the palaeontology Masters here, described the first fossil thalattosuchian croc from Skye, and now is wrapping up her PhD on skull evolution in Germany!
Why did mammals beat out the dinosaurs?
We recount one of evolution's great underdog stories, in this fun video with my pals @animalogic.bsky.social !
youtu.be/v0PtFnOTdAk?...
Fantastic new book, coming in June! From @rowhoop.bsky.social of @newscientist.com podcast fame.
A clarion call for cooperation, at a time when competition, chaos, and cruelty seem to rule the day. A joyful book, of hope and wonder, which celebrates community as the true key to success in nature.
A little US 'book tour' for The Story of Birds is shaping up!
And first confirmed on the agenda: St. Louis, Missouri. April 29. At the wonderful @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social ! Join us!
www.slcl.org/events/steve...
Happy publication day to John Reilly! The Ascent of Mammals is a wonderfully engaging book, exploring how DNA has totally revamped our understanding of the mammal family tree, and our own mammal origin story.
Let’s take a moment to consider the true victims of decades of Middle East violence, dictatorship, and war:
Western social media influencers!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One day soon I’ll be preordering YOUR book…
The 90+ million people of Iran deserve real true freedom. To my friends there, we’re thinking about you tonight.
Hope the new one lives up to it!
Coming in two months…
All this noise about AI and the Pentagon is about this:
Trump wants to spy on Americans—you, me, all of us.
Oh, and also wants AI to control military weapons. Cool!
You’re publicly acknowledging the existence of T. rex!
Published by our friends at the Edinburgh Geological Society. And charmingly illustrated by Maikki Haapalainen (another Edinburgh Uni GeoSciences spouse...)
Order here, direct from the EGS:
edinburghgeolsoc.org/publications...
Hot off the presses! It's the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's birth. The guy who first truly grasped that the Earth was old, the founder of modern geology, one of Scotland's heroes.
And @annebrusatte.bsky.social has written a children's book about him!
Order details below⤵️
Gearing up for March Mammal Madness with my friends back home in northern Illinois!
www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/...
This week we cover Fossil Files' own papers,
1st by @fossilyarns.bsky.social & @fossilrob.bsky.social,
2nd by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and others, out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriR...
too kind! honestly I was quite kitchy with that barnyard quote I think...
T. rex might have looked something like an eight-ton chicken clucking about in the barnyard.
Or put more soberly: T. rex may have walked in a kinda bird-like way.
My thoughts on an intriguing new study for @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social article in @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...
Terrible news that Hans-Dieter Sues has died. Way too young.
Hans (on the right) & Sasha Averianov (left) invited me to study Timurlengia with them. I'll always appreciate it.
Hans was eminent, always nice and cheerful to me, a man of ethics and faith. RIP.
Double hockey gold!! USA!
Hell of a game, best talent level I’ve ever seen. Cheers to Canada but we’ll enjoy this, first men’s hockey gold in my lifetime, first since Miracle on Ice!
Gotta love the MAGA mindset: we’re so patriotic we’re rooting against America at the Olympics.
Anyway: among us normal people: Go USA! Let’s win that second hockey gold!
This 65-year-old British grandma was visiting Yellowstone. She entered the US legally, had a valid tourist visa. Never had a run-in with the law in her life.
ICE detained her, shackled her, locked her in a windowless prison for six weeks.
Pure evil.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Absolutely brilliant from fellow Marshall Scholar alum Justice Gorsuch. This is what true principled conservatism looks like. And respect for the Constitution.
Canada should be pretty heavy favorites tomorrow as that is the scariest lineup of hockey pros I've ever seen
Bring it on Canada! Let’s make this 2 for 2 in hockey gold medals!
One day in February 2026.
A tale of two countries.
And two very different views of law and justice.
This #fossilfriday in Edinburgh, we’re out with our Univ of Edinburgh students, collecting 325 million year old fossils at Wardie.
World’s most famous coprolite latrine. And loads of fossil leaves and roots and logs from Coal Swamp trees. All within the city limits!
