Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social 🐊🦕 (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising!

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New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ‪in which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out!

We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social!

📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June!

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For a while, crocodile: crocodylomorph resilience to mass extinctions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @datadryad.bsky.social

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨

We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our new paper out today describes a sebecoidean crocodylomorph from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia, and provides support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg.

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Our new paper @royalsociety.org describing a new notosuchian crocodyliform from the early Paleocene of Argentina that we interpret as evidence for survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K–Pg mass extinction (w/@piginatutu.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @es-ucl.bsky.social

sunflower + alligator

prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

🚨Croc paper alert!

Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!

Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology

I really couldn’t have done this without the support of all of my friends and family who have been right by my side over the past few years, and to all of my Palaeo and PhD pals who I’ve met along the way - I feel incredibly lucky to have existed in the same time and place as you all 🦴🌎📑🐊🦕

Thank you also to my examiners, Paul Upchurch and Pat O’ Connor, for a really great viva discussion - this was the first exam I’ve ever sat that I actually ended up enjoying!

…a BIG BIG thank you to my supervisors @pdmannion.bsky.social, Diego Pol, and @bridgetwade.bsky.social for all of your help over the last few years. All of your knowledge, expertise, support, and kindness have gotten me to this point and I’m very grateful for that.

In all the excitement/stress of the day I failed to get any photos with those who have supported me through the last few years. Fortunately, I excel at writing nice things, as evidenced by this comment on my thesis acknowledgements 😬. So, with that said…

My first post on here, so I’d like to share some cool things that have happened recently:

1) Last week I successfully defended my PhD thesis, and am a (pending) croc doc 🐊

2) I now share my name with a caterpillar cake

3) I learnt the importance of never being photographed with a whiteboard