Jordan Bestwick

🎉New paper alert! 🎉 Skull reconstruction and functional morphology of the bizarre 🐊cousin Effigia from the Triassic. New anatomy and feeding behaviours beautifully depicted by @MarkWitton @AnatRecord DM me for a copy! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… (1/8)

I've finally started to transition away from this hellsite, find me below on bsky Will keep this account active but will rarely check and will no longer post here Looking forward to seeing actual palaeo-related content again

@HoudzGeorge Make Palaeo Great Again!

@foradamifera Awesome news, well done Adam!🥳

PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, @NaturalEngland & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by @MarkWitton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through @CENTA_NERC - more info here centa.ac.uk/studentship/20…

Spotted some "dinosaur-themed" ring binders the other day in Zurich More and more AI-generated slop appearing on merch...

The ichthyosaur is now in its rightful position overlooking the Zurich collections! #FossilFriday

Special ichthyosaur delivery at the museum today So special it arrived under armed guard!

@paleoAldo I fully believe at this stage you've more than earned the right to adopt the "f*** it, that'll do" approach for the rest of your write-up 😅

At this stage I do not know where I am the most invested: is it the 5th? the 6th chapter? or is it the anger/happiness/gratefulness/critique-charged Epilogue?

@LewisAlanJones @NERCscience @ES_UCL Wow! Massive congrats Lewis!

Absolutely over the moon to share that I have been awarded a @NERCscience Independent Research Fellowship 😱 From September, I'll be joining @ES_UCL to work on elucidating diversity dynamics in Cenozoic marine tropical hotspots!🪸 ukri.org/news/early-car…

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming CPEG & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! Join us in person or virtually at the University of Zurich🇨🇭 in the summer of 2025. First circular here: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch

@HoudzGeorge In the '90s and early '00s there was The Lost World arcade game which more closely followed the book storyline I spent a lot of money as a kid in arcade booths shooting Velociraptors

Almost time for #Deadpool&Wolverine I'm so excited #LFG

@gsciencelady Fantastic work, Elsa! Congratulations!

New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... nature.com/articles/s4158…

I currently hold one of these fellowships and my time at UZH has been fantastic so far Anyone palaeo-related who is looking to join the palaeoteam at Zurich should definitely consider applying to this (feel free to message me any questions you may have)

Some fantastically cursed taxidermy in the Zurich collections 😂

@Sketchy_raptor I really like this level of jiggle 😀

This is *very* satisfying to set up.

Continuing practice - tweaking the walk and experimenting with a bit of character. He's kinda sleepy.

Update: Three hours in the palaeontology and geology sections, upstairs to zoology and this sight awaits me This place is unreal

Some of the many, many statues in the museum are...interesting...

Celebrating today's election results at the Vienna Natural History Museum What a building!

The final version of our osteoderm paper is now available at PYGS! Please email or DM me if you would like a copy :)