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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on "Reducing uncertainty in the impact of climate on biodiversity" 🔗 unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red... 🗓️ Deadline: 13th January 2027

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Reducing uncertainty in the impact of climate on biodiversity – Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grant agreement signed! Advertising 4 new jobs (3 year contracts w/potential to extend +2 years) on ERC #CROCOLOCOEVO grant next week-- stay tuned for details. 2 postdocs 1 technician 1 research administrator who can do science communication Start date flexible but could be as soon as 1 November!

Picture of right hindlimbs and pelvis of Terrestrisuchus (long skinny legs) and Crocodylus (modern croc; beefy and stubby), from 3D computer models

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's sorting job It may not look interesting at first, but inside these boxes upon boxes are a dozens of undescribed microvertebrate remains from the Late Triassic Klettgau Formation, Switzerland For some lucky specimens a trip to the Grenoble Sychrotron awaits next week!

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fully recommend. Very cool project and very cool mountain scenery

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

*Already waiting anxiously for delivery*

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This already fantastic field-guide just keeps getting better! Please share the @pterosaursfieldguide.com to anyone who might still be interested! Final push for more taxa!

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Live footage of me trying to get several pterosaur manuscripts submitted within the next couple of weeks Send coffee and encouragement (preferably the former)

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Kermit Typing Frantically

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 02/08/2026

$14,000. Skiphosoura bavarica is going into the book. Found in 2015, described in 2024, and it closes the gap between Darwinopterus-type monofenestratans and true pterodactyloids. It landed after we closed the manuscript, so it missed the book. Next: $16,000, Ceoptera. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $14,000 UNLOCKED above the species name Skiphosoura bavarica in italic, and the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🚨Our Kickstarter to fund the Pterosaur field guide is now live! 🚨 This book is a destilation of your Pteros web page but also gioes beyond that! As such you can expect more than 60 illustrations in this book from me! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pte...

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide

Your complete reference to every known pterosaur

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Palaeontology at Leicester saved! Thanks to everyone who signed the petition! However, the School has still taken losses with the shutdown of Human Geography While not as bad as it could have been, it's worrying that we will see more cuts like this across UK academia le.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

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Strategic Review: Outcomes for College of Science and Engineering | News | University of Leicester

The Strategic Review process of academic areas within the College of Science and Engineering has concluded, with decisions now ratified by University Council.

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very cool PhD project on offer at the University of Zurich Zurich is a fantastic place to do palaeo, plus Switzerland is an amazing place place to live. What's not to like?

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This #FossilFriday I am reaching out to possible attendees of Paleo4Alps in Bolzano, It, 19th-23rd July 2026 Myself and Andrea Villa are organisers of the “Paleoherpetology of the Alps and peri-alpine basins” symposium and we are on the lookout for contributors (1/2)

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Absolutely thrilled to announce that our @snsf.ch project grant to study the Late Triassic dinosaurs of the Klettgau Formation in Switzerland (pictured below) was approved! Several more fun-filled years ahead on taxonomy, diets and ecosystem disparity! #FossilFriday

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New paper alert! Something a little different for me, we investigated how plastic coffee stirrers degrade in fluvial-simulated environments by analysing their microscopic surface textures; the same techniques I use to reconstruct the diets of extinct animals! OA here 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm beyond thrilled to share the trailer for The Dinosaurs, which I got to work on as a researcher and consultant! Get ready to see prehistoric animals, including several pterosaurs, which have never been shown on TV before! #SilverbackFilms #FossilFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

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The Dinosaurs | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

*Excitedly tells the wife that I now know what I want for Christmas*

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

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Save Geology at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A great event and a fantastic start to #2025SVP Thanks to the presenters and organisers!

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Jurassic World Rebirth is truly a film of all time

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

News story on our sickly Plateosaurus paper here www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today is the 3 year anniversary of one my favourite papers; skull-body size ratios of archosauromorphs, including 🦕 🐊 🦖 and more, so I am shamelessly plugging it again Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Continuing looking into bird colouration and I cannot get enough of the colours of the resplendent quetzal Such a fantastic looking bird Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Researching bird colouring for palaeoart research and I google hoatzins This abomination was one of the top results #AIslop

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sharing a meme I made this week for my 🐢 loving partner Such a derpy face 😂

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Good start to the day with a 🦕 paper accepted! Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

R help needed! Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following: [1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label" What am I doing wrong?

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Such a cool study! Palaeontology meets Star Wars, what's not to love?

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Science collective; does anyone have a PDF of the following? Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11 Thanks in advance!

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Received an angry letter from the Student Loans Company today because I am a whole £0.01 (!) behind on my loan repayments... 😅

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Dennis Hansen @dennish.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A bit of impromptu 'fieldwork' on our dear Plateosaurus today - Ben Pabst & @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social enjoying the Monday quiet in our museum 💚🦕

A man sitting on the stony matrix surrounding a dinosaur skeleton, about to measure bones, another standing outside the glassy wall, ready to take notes

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This #FossilFriday I'm writing about #pterosaurs and birds, so here's a pic of Campylognathoides from the early Jurassic Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This #PterosaurPtuesday here's an adorable juvenile Scaphognathus from Solnhofen, Germany Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Currently juggling manuscripts (as lead or co-author) on: i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology ii) Dinosaur pathology iii) Dinosaur microwear iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For #FossilFriday here is one of my favourite pterosaurs, Istiodactylus, from the Cretaceous of the UK Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures! Specimen housed at the London NHM

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CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25

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| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Tiny, articulated and adorable skeleton of a young Pterodactylus for #FossilFriday Housed at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...

Example of Middle Jurassic mammal fossils from Skye, published by Elsa Panciroli et al. 2024.

Cuillin Hills, the view from our field site on the Isle of Skye.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Jurassic pirates. A pair of Rhamphorhynchus harassing a Pterodactylus so it releases a fish it just caught A scene from the Late Jurassic of what would become Europe #paleoart #sciart #pterosaurs

A pair of Rhamphorhynchus on the right flying and chasing a Pterodactylus also flying, in front of them. The Rhamphorhynchus are trying to make the Pterodactylus give up a fish it just caught

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

First #FossilFriday of 2025 so here's a fantastic preserved lower jaw of an Early Jurassic distant relative of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, Scelidosaurus Housed at the London NHM

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Last #FossilFriday before🎄Christmas 🎄and earlier this week we submitted our MS on an unusual 🦕 pathology Here's a cryptic sneak peek for now. Pray the reviewer gods are merciful...

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For #FossilFriday, here's an adorable replica of a baby Diplodocus🦕 at the Natural History Museum of Zurich Look at that cute li'l face! 🦕

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