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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How many litres of water I have wasted to do this

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe Reddit isn’t quite a dumpster fire

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just taking myself to bed after staying up late to watch Weapons 👀

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Introducing Platyrhakis, Saigheadaspis, Ymersaspis, and Rochtarge, 4 new genera of British cephalaspids named after @aminff.bsky.social spent ages cleaning up centuries of messy taxonomy. ENJOY FOSSIL FISH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Update from the zone of totality in Spain. It was over in what felt like a flash. Shit picture, amazing moment

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Final result: a pinhole camera to safely view the eclipse!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poolside science☀️🌚part 1

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Did a lack of sex hold back the evolution of the first animals? To answer this question, you need some lovely Ediacaran fossils and lots of interesting maths. An x-rated double hitter for @thefossilfiles.bsky.social this week with @egmitchell.bsky.social and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So it’s masks on and windows closed at 30C 🙃

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Manchester is trapped in a foul smelling blanket of smoke blowing off the wildfires on the moor 😥

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Absolute scenes at Asda. It’s too hot for cold food!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We have been fanboying over Myotragus both here and in Manchester. Here is some of Dorothea Bates material:

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Tortoises! Live cuttlefish! Pleistocene fossils! Sea grass! Vultures! Our first ecology and palaeontology undergrad field course to Mallorca is off to a strong start

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Lovely stuff. What do you make of this abomination?

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Who’s that at our departmental seminar today? It’s the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

On second thoughts, I'm not hungry

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We also found evidence of bony skeletal type tissues in these otherwise squishy vertebrates. nice.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The specific chemistry and distribution shows evidence of a complex eye and a retinal pigmented epithelium, early in our evolution. COOL.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Let's look closer at the eye. The Copper shows a really nice Camera-type eye structure, not seen before with normal light.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Zinc picks out nicely the eyes, the 'gills', and some mystery unknown structures, but NOT the 'mouth'

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here is that same face, that only a mother could love, visualised in high powered X-rays at the Stamford Synchrotron to show Zinc

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here is Jamoytius's gormless face in fossils from the Early Silurian of Scotland

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New paper story time. 👁️🐟🦴🩻 Here is your gormless jawless relative Jamoytius: [1/8]

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This student feedback has me dead. Does it mean they want more or less worms?🐛 🪱

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Anomalocaris is my spirit animal

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🪨💥🌎🦖🦕 What were dinosaurs up to before the asteroid hit? In the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and I sit down with @stevebrusatte.bsky.social to talk about new insights from New Mexico, out now on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts youtu.be/l4Q6ifORvVY?...

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Will AI replace palaeontologists? Can we use AI to find, classify, and interpret fossils? 🤖🦖🐚 New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social looks at just that for #FossilFriday

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

👀 one of these “Landmarks Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology” looks familiar! #SVP2025 @systbiol.bsky.social

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The tension is building at #SVP2025 in hall 1 as the crowd builds for Nanotyrannus

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Here’s a sneak peak where I feebly try to justify the 18 year gap between the genesis and completion of this project with @Emma. Can you beat this gap?

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you can’t beat them join them. My demon hunters inspired pumpkin for this year

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Well that is an alarming email to start one’s day. 🐿️ Half?!?!?!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

How big are fossil whales? Convex hull mass estimation in cetaceans with @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New Dinosaur trackways happening at #MorphUpNorth at Man Met with @peterfalkingham.com with lots of fancy rotating models

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The story of Oculudentavis is wild. It was named "eye-teeth-bird" but had neither the eyes nor teeth of a bird, and indeed it wasn't even a bird. And the fossil may have come from a war zone 1/2

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey palaeontologists - what (if anything) has this guy on Reddit found in Kootenay national park BC?

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