Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
@palaeostephan.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Palaeobiology @ University of Birmingham,
Research Lead @ Lapworth Museum of Geology,
vertebrate palaeontologist, dinosaurs, digital visualisation, biomechanics & functional morphology
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Research Lead @ Lapworth Museum of Geology,
vertebrate palaeontologist, dinosaurs, digital visualisation, biomechanics & functional morphology
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Thinking about #dinosaurs? Didn't get a chance to celebrate their 200th birthday last year? Well, our Temporary #Exhibition curated by @palaeostephan.bsky.social has now gone virtual!
Find 'Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research' on our Virtual #Museum: ow.ly/Ryt550XvLCA
Find 'Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research' on our Virtual #Museum: ow.ly/Ryt550XvLCA
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thinking about #dinosaurs? Didn't get a chance to celebrate their 200th birthday last year? Well, our Temporary #Exhibition curated by @palaeostephan.bsky.social has now gone virtual!
Find 'Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research' on our Virtual #Museum: ow.ly/Ryt550XvLCA
Find 'Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research' on our Virtual #Museum: ow.ly/Ryt550XvLCA
#SVP2025 was finally an opportunity to show the excellent reconstructions of Dysalotosaurus created by @dragonsofwales.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#SVP2025 was finally an opportunity to show the excellent reconstructions of Dysalotosaurus created by @dragonsofwales.bsky.social
If you are attending #SVP2025 #2025SVP make sure to visit the stall of the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social for some exclusive merchandise featuring some jawless fish designs!
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you are attending #SVP2025 #2025SVP make sure to visit the stall of the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social for some exclusive merchandise featuring some jawless fish designs!
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Feeding Without Jaws opens this Wednesday!
Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them.
www.birmingham.ac.uk...
#LapworthRocks
Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them.
www.birmingham.ac.uk...
#LapworthRocks
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Feeding Without Jaws opens this Wednesday!
Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them.
www.birmingham.ac.uk...
#LapworthRocks
Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them.
www.birmingham.ac.uk...
#LapworthRocks
Attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in Palaeozoic fish and temnospondyls, dinosaurs old and new, sabre-tooth cats, biomechanics, biogeography, museum ethics, etc? Don't look any further, the Lautenschlager Lab got you covered - thanks to a lot of hard work by students, post-docs and colleagues!
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:
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As we see so often in research, bullies and abusers do terrible things while everyone who could stop them wrings their hands and gives free speech platitudes just so they don't have to act with unity and strength.
This is just another example of academic inequalities and harms writ large. Appalling
This is just another example of academic inequalities and harms writ large. Appalling
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As we see so often in research, bullies and abusers do terrible things while everyone who could stop them wrings their hands and gives free speech platitudes just so they don't have to act with unity and strength.
This is just another example of academic inequalities and harms writ large. Appalling
This is just another example of academic inequalities and harms writ large. Appalling
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He should have been expelled. This is way more than policing opinions.
- Inciting violence at far right rallies
- Interfering in government affairs
- Destroying health and science infrastructures
- Ensuring thousands will die
Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.
- Inciting violence at far right rallies
- Interfering in government affairs
- Destroying health and science infrastructures
- Ensuring thousands will die
Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.
"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
royalsociety.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
He should have been expelled. This is way more than policing opinions.
- Inciting violence at far right rallies
- Interfering in government affairs
- Destroying health and science infrastructures
- Ensuring thousands will die
Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.
- Inciting violence at far right rallies
- Interfering in government affairs
- Destroying health and science infrastructures
- Ensuring thousands will die
Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.
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Until a few weeks ago I knew next to nothing about early Devonian jawless fish. To be honest, I still know shamefully little about them. But I’m currently illustrating a bunch of them, and have become utterly fascinated by these extraordinary little freaks.
Anyway, just saying 🤷♂️
Anyway, just saying 🤷♂️
September 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Until a few weeks ago I knew next to nothing about early Devonian jawless fish. To be honest, I still know shamefully little about them. But I’m currently illustrating a bunch of them, and have become utterly fascinated by these extraordinary little freaks.
Anyway, just saying 🤷♂️
Anyway, just saying 🤷♂️
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Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
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That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists...
And nothing.
Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility.
As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
And nothing.
Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility.
As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists...
And nothing.
Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility.
As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
And nothing.
Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility.
As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
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Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
September 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
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@palaeostephan.bsky.social - you might enjoy this one. 😉
Erlikosaurus andrewsi.
A portrait of the Asian therizinosaurid.
A portrait of the Asian therizinosaurid.
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@palaeostephan.bsky.social - you might enjoy this one. 😉
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Should All Earth Scientists Be Vegan?
Watch our full discussion with Earth Scientist & Geophysicist Chris MacAskill from Viva Longevity on the PBN YouTube channel 📺🌱
Watch our full discussion with Earth Scientist & Geophysicist Chris MacAskill from Viva Longevity on the PBN YouTube channel 📺🌱
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Should All Earth Scientists Be Vegan?
Watch our full discussion with Earth Scientist & Geophysicist Chris MacAskill from Viva Longevity on the PBN YouTube channel 📺🌱
Watch our full discussion with Earth Scientist & Geophysicist Chris MacAskill from Viva Longevity on the PBN YouTube channel 📺🌱
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Megalosaurus: an illustration for an exhibition last year at Lapworth Museum to mark 200 years since it was officially described.
May 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Megalosaurus: an illustration for an exhibition last year at Lapworth Museum to mark 200 years since it was officially described.
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
May 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
Nice write-up of our Rancor study: www.iflscience.com/is-a-bone-a-...
Bite Force Of Star Wars’ Rancor Is Not Science Fiction, Says New Study Published In The Journal Of Geek Studies
We know you’ve been wondering.
www.iflscience.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Nice write-up of our Rancor study: www.iflscience.com/is-a-bone-a-...
This is horrendous but far from just a problem in German academia (albeit exacerbated by its civil servant system)! One of the problems outlined in the article is the lack of consequences and the precarity for those who have experienced abuse and bullying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is horrendous but far from just a problem in German academia (albeit exacerbated by its civil servant system)! One of the problems outlined in the article is the lack of consequences and the precarity for those who have experienced abuse and bullying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We have a new social media feature starting: #WhatsNewWednesdays!
For our first post we want to tell you about Ben Miller's #comedy show at the Museum in September! Have you ever watched a #comedian perform under a #dinosaur?
Book earlybird tickets now: lapworth-comedy.even...
#LapworthRocks
For our first post we want to tell you about Ben Miller's #comedy show at the Museum in September! Have you ever watched a #comedian perform under a #dinosaur?
Book earlybird tickets now: lapworth-comedy.even...
#LapworthRocks
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We have a new social media feature starting: #WhatsNewWednesdays!
For our first post we want to tell you about Ben Miller's #comedy show at the Museum in September! Have you ever watched a #comedian perform under a #dinosaur?
Book earlybird tickets now: lapworth-comedy.even...
#LapworthRocks
For our first post we want to tell you about Ben Miller's #comedy show at the Museum in September! Have you ever watched a #comedian perform under a #dinosaur?
Book earlybird tickets now: lapworth-comedy.even...
#LapworthRocks
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I'm disappointed to resign from the editorial board of @royalsocietypublishing.org @royalsociety.org journal Biology Letters. I won't give my time and labour away to an organisation that - through inaction - condones the destruction of US science by one of its own, Elon Musk FRS.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I'm disappointed to resign from the editorial board of @royalsocietypublishing.org @royalsociety.org journal Biology Letters. I won't give my time and labour away to an organisation that - through inaction - condones the destruction of US science by one of its own, Elon Musk FRS.
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The bite force is strong with this one!
Reposting our recent study by @taphonomist.bsky.social and myself investigating the biomechanics and bite of the Rancor. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... in @jgeekstudies.bsky.social
Happy May the 4th!!!!
#StarWarsDay #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Reposting our recent study by @taphonomist.bsky.social and myself investigating the biomechanics and bite of the Rancor. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... in @jgeekstudies.bsky.social
Happy May the 4th!!!!
#StarWarsDay #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The bite force is strong with this one!
Reposting our recent study by @taphonomist.bsky.social and myself investigating the biomechanics and bite of the Rancor. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... in @jgeekstudies.bsky.social
Happy May the 4th!!!!
#StarWarsDay #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Reposting our recent study by @taphonomist.bsky.social and myself investigating the biomechanics and bite of the Rancor. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... in @jgeekstudies.bsky.social
Happy May the 4th!!!!
#StarWarsDay #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology