Dr Liam Herringshaw

If you're in need of family-friendly fossil-finding activities in York and on the Yorkshire Coast this summer, look no further: eventbrite.com/cc/fossiliam-t…! #FossilFriday

We need to drop proxy benefits as a reason for justifying these degrees. It's fucking literature. The fundamental human innovation that keeps us from resetting to the Stone Age every generation. It's the scaffold of civilisation as we know it. Inherently moronic to cut it.

OR are you wasting money on middle management, white elephant buildings whilst the department works itself into the ground as, ooh, almost every literature and language department this has happened to?

@Nemiwall @Volcanologist @DrNatashaDowey @OrbitalPete @bedform @AnnaBirdian Congratulations Nemi!

Running a family fossil hunt in York on Halloween allows me to ask the big question: 🐚 Are fossils ghosts?👻 Tickets are still available here - eventbrite.co.uk/e/york-family-… - for what I've hurriedly rebranded a Fossil Haunt... @yorkshiddenhist @VisitYork #HauntedYork

@Seadragonseeker That's a very interesting-looking nodular block!

Thought of that croc you found ( am at runswick ) and did a double triple take @fossiliam

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…

Rare opportunity for a geoconservation PhD, with the fab palaeo team at Birmingham and Natural England.

This #TrilobiteTuesday, a juvenile Paradoxides (?) #trilobite from the Middle #Cambrian of Manuels River, #Newfoundland. This wee beastie measures approx. 2 mm in length, and could be the smallest trilobite I’ve ever seen!

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

#Acritober2024 day 12. Top is a sketch of a rock sample, the different shades of grey are different materials. The green spaghetti traces organic filaments exposed on the surface. The bottom image is a map of only the organic filaments. #Paleoart #Sciart #geology #paleontology

Spotting fossils in the limestone of the Yorkshire Dales can be tricky due to all the lichens. A great place to look, however, is in stream beds! Check out these lovely little corals and crinoid stems we saw near Grassington #FossilFriday

#FossilFriday For bibliophiles, unicorn lovers and fossil enthusiasts alike, a Chinese bookend in the form of a unicorn manufactured from shelly limestone of unknown provenance and age.

It’s so satisfying to see the fruits of our labour come together And if comments from the Private View are anything to go by, I think it’ll be popular 😃 Come & see our FAB (she says humbly 😆) new exhibition Breaking Ground, featuring Megalosaurus! 🦖 #FossilFriday #Dinosaur

Rishabh Pant has never been out in the 60s, 70s, or 80s. He's now been out 7 times in the 90s, out of 13 90+ scores.

I also like that India and New Zealand have recent history for this sort of thing. In 1999, at Mohali, India were 83ao and then 505/3: espncricinfo.com/series/new-zea…. Then in 2014, at Wellington, New Zealand were 192ao and 680/8: espncricinfo.com/series/india-t… #INDvNZ #INDvsNZ

India will want to score 598, not only to replicate South Africa's 13x improvement in Test innings totals, but also to achieve the biggest runs difference between innings: espncricinfo.com/records/bigges… @stevieessence @ZaltzCricket @norcrosscricket

Following #INDvNZ and wondering if a Test team had ever scored >10x its first innings total in its second innings. Looks like it only happened once, in 1924 at Edgbaston, when South Africa were bowled out for 30 in the first innings and 390 in the second: espncricinfo.com/series/south-a…

@Tweetisaurus @ButlerLabBham Will anyone be talking about thagomizers?

we're looking for an enthusiastic collections assistant, to help us look after and share our amazing rock and fossil collections. just a few days left to apply

Good news everyone! Spicomellus comes back home!