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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

New dinosaur is unlike anything we've ever found | Unique armoured dinosaur discovered in Morocco

YouTube video by Natural History Museum

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Claudette Forrester on X: "The Band of the Coldstream Guards perform "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at Changing of the Guard today. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" #guard #kingsguard #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #paranoid #heavymetal #rockband #london #buckinghampalace 💂🤘🏽 https://t.co/tZM45WvCM6" / X

The Band of the Coldstream Guards perform "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at Changing of the Guard today. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" #guard #kingsguard #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #paranoid #heavymetal #rockband #london #buckinghampalace 💂🤘🏽 https://t.co/tZM45WvCM6

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.change.org/p/rename-bir...

Sign the Petition

Rename Birmingham Airport as Ozzy Osbourne International

www.change.org

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jul 16

Think I’ve found the updated Temple of Zeus ..

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jul 12

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So HSBC are joining the side of the idiots

HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance

Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election

www.theguardian.com

simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cause and effect ….

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jun 30

Driving from Kiel to Rotterdam today in an #EV. Maybe it’s just me, but the effort in planning to make sure I don’t run out of charge is a monumental pain in the ass. Same in reverse in my diesel truck - so much easier. Until infrastructure and range improve long distance EV trips are much harder.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Jun 26

We at NHM Fossil Reptiles got to dress up unprecedentedly smartly to go to the NHM's annual Trustees' dinner last night as we revealed Enigmacursor to the great and good. Featuring @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social, @marcehjones.bsky.social, @simonwills.bsky.social, Mike Day and Fern the Diplodocus

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · Jun 8

New paper just out online describing the first dino body fossils found in Serbia, led by our colleague Predrag Radovic with contributions from me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo

Diverse and abundant continental vertebrate assemblages are known from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of several European countries. T…

www.sciencedirect.com

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Jun 2

Yet more ways to kill off science in the US

www.science.org/content/arti...

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request

Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

www.science.org

simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 19

Last day in #Zanzibar spent in Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park. Examining the results of illegal logging in the forest with my good friend Miza from Zanzibar Forestry. And then the mangroves essential for coastal protection.

simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 19

The frothing #Brexit lovers are out in force today on X - it’s quite amusing to see them get worked up.

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · May 14

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in Planning and Infrastructure Bill rejected by Labour MPs.

Thank you @elliechowns.bsky.social for so passionately speaking up for this today. Very disappointed in the government.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs

Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape

www.theguardian.com

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 14

Race to the bottom unfortunately

simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 13

youtu.be/OSWszdSHkyE?...

NANOWAR OF STEEL - Uranus feat. Michael Starr (Steel Panther) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 13

Another awful day at work, assessing the rates of mangrove removal using high resolution satellite data ….

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 13

Yep!!!

simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 12

An unshaven previous iteration of me was once told I looked like Jeremy Corbyn. I shaved!

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · May 11

Sometimes I quite like my job … #zanzibar

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Apr 1

What writer hasn’t had this exact fear?
H/tRob Simbeckk, and Lee Dugatkin on Facebook

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Mar 31

With all the talk about a third term for #Trump

From @politicsjoe.bsky.social

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Mar 30

Says it all really.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 27

Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release.

www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Duckworth: Pete Hegseth Needs to Resign in Disgrace | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

www.duckworth.senate.gov

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Mar 27

Actually, quite flattering.

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simonwills.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social · Mar 25

#blackadder

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