Big Al in Lapworth Geological Museum

.Susanna Reid asks Boris Johnson what he would do to help pensioner Elsie who can’t afford to stay at home because keeping heating on is too expensive and travels round London on bus all day. Johnson says that as London mayor he introduced the 24 hour freedom bus pass.

🍆🍆🏋️‍♀️🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆 👀 #PenistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanet

People like this exist, to my chagrin! This is why shows like Prehistoric Planet are SO important. Dinosaurs were REAL animals and not monsters. Also, it seems to me that comments like this one below are severely tinged with shades of toxic masculinity, homophobia, misogyny, etc

I use twitter to talk science, fossils, and scream about bones. So why am I terrified to share this? This too is an unfortunate part of science... Two years ago Bryan Gee and I reported our advisor, Robert Reisz, for bullying and harassment. tinyurl.com/4hm42zr8

The label on this stunning sculpture in London's Victoria and Albert Museum notes it was "collected by the Ex Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1904." A short 🧵 about the horrors this polite wording conceals.

I myself have wondered why refugees didn't stay in European countries and have travelled on. So I asked them.

This evening the Tories’ summer fundraising party is being held at the V&A museum. We have some questions…

HELP! Important fossils stolen. These are from the Wiltshire UK fossil site (bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…). If you are offered fossil crinoids similar to these (particularly feather stars) then please contact Wiltshire Police quoting crime# 54220065628 or me directly. PLEASE SHARE!

We are proud to announce the Yorkshire Natural History Museum will be opening Saturday 13th August! 🎉 We are a small public #museum with a #geology, #palaeontology, and #botany collection, including a significant research collection of #fossils from the #Yorkshire Lias. 🐚

I’ve seen this ridiculous comparison a lot on social media during the last few days I created the Met Office temperature colour scale with help from a colleague That’s why I know: - The image on the right is doctored - Met Office graphics are not designed to cause fear 🧵 1/8

Don't worry, we can just pretend we didn't publish the first one

What do the diets of ice age mammals tell us about the biodiversity crisis? Our new research in Science Magazine asks how extinction and range loss have affected land mammal food webs globally over the last 130,000 years 🧵 #ScienceResearch science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred. 🧵

My first dinosaur paper! 🥳And the first of a set of future works from Palaeo Birmingham on the conservation & management of palaeontological heritage. Big thanks to the wonderful team Richard Butler Luke Meade Harry Jones Lewis Haller Jurassic Coast Trust. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Apart from when Charles' grandson invaded & fought his uncle for the crown or when Charles' other grandson invaded & deposed that same uncle ushering in the, um, Glorious Revolution, or when Charles' great grandson invaded, triggering several battles & a savage counter insurgency

Check out our new review on the distribution of UK dinosaur tracks in time and space with Richard Butler Lewis Haller Dr Emma Dunne Daniel Cashmore including fabulous new palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from Mark Witton (1/4)