Jordan Bestwick
@jordanbestwick1.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist at Universität Zurich (UZH) researching functional morphology and disparity of extinct reptiles (SNSF-funded)
Mostly palaeo- and nature-related content, may post Doctor Who stuff on occasion
Mostly palaeo- and nature-related content, may post Doctor Who stuff on occasion
A great event and a fantastic start to #2025SVP
Thanks to the presenters and organisers!
Thanks to the presenters and organisers!
Walking With Dinosaurs evening event with BBC producers and chief scientific advisor @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, expertly chaired by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #2025SVP
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A great event and a fantastic start to #2025SVP
Thanks to the presenters and organisers!
Thanks to the presenters and organisers!
Multi-factor/two-step verification is absolute bane of my existence at the moment
You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!
You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!
stitch from the movie lilo and stitch is crying while covering his eyes with his hands .
ALT: stitch from the movie lilo and stitch is crying while covering his eyes with his hands .
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November 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Multi-factor/two-step verification is absolute bane of my existence at the moment
You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!
You know who I am, I logged in just 10 minutes ago!
I have recently reached B1 level German classes and I now have 16 ways of saying the word 'the'
I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅
I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅
a man in a blue shirt and tie is standing in front of a wall with a lot of papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is standing in front of a wall with a lot of papers on it .
media.tenor.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I have recently reached B1 level German classes and I now have 16 ways of saying the word 'the'
I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅
I'm struggling to have enough colours to code everything 😅
Jurassic World Rebirth is truly a film of all time
July 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Jurassic World Rebirth is truly a film of all time
June 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🚨New paper alert! 🚨
We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm!
Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)
We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm!
Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)
Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The sauropodomorph Plateosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs from Europe due to the large numbers of articulated skeletons discovered from bonebed horizons in Switzerland and Germany. Plateosaur...
sjpp.springeropen.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🚨New paper alert! 🚨
We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm!
Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)
We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm!
Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)
Today is the 3 year anniversary of one my favourite papers; skull-body size ratios of archosauromorphs, including 🦕 🐊 🦖 and more, so I am shamelessly plugging it again
Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Today is the 3 year anniversary of one my favourite papers; skull-body size ratios of archosauromorphs, including 🦕 🐊 🦖 and more, so I am shamelessly plugging it again
Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full OA access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Continuing looking into bird colouration and I cannot get enough of the colours of the resplendent quetzal
Such a fantastic looking bird
Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
Such a fantastic looking bird
Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Continuing looking into bird colouration and I cannot get enough of the colours of the resplendent quetzal
Such a fantastic looking bird
Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
Such a fantastic looking bird
Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
Sharing a meme I made this week for my 🐢 loving partner
Such a derpy face 😂
Such a derpy face 😂
May 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sharing a meme I made this week for my 🐢 loving partner
Such a derpy face 😂
Such a derpy face 😂
Good start to the day with a 🦕 paper accepted!
Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!
Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!
April 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good start to the day with a 🦕 paper accepted!
Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!
Below is a cryptic sneak peek, stay tuned for more!
Happy Easter everyone!
April 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Happy Easter everyone!
Our OA article on bite forces of Saurosuchus* with @palaeostephan.bsky.social and @richardjbutler.bsky.social (lead, Molly Fawcett) is apparently a #TopViewedArticle in The Anatomical Record
*great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
*great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Functional morphology of the Triassic apex predator Saurosuchus galilei (Pseudosuchia: Loricata) and convergence with a post‐Triassic theropod dinosaur
Pseudosuchian archosaurs, reptiles more closely related to crocodylians than to birds, exhibited high morphological diversity during the Triassic and are thus associated with hypotheses of high ecolo...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our OA article on bite forces of Saurosuchus* with @palaeostephan.bsky.social and @richardjbutler.bsky.social (lead, Molly Fawcett) is apparently a #TopViewedArticle in The Anatomical Record
*great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
*great-uncle (x20) of🐊, twice-removed
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
R help needed!
Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv
I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message
However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following:
[1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label"
What am I doing wrong?
Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv
I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message
However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following:
[1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label"
What am I doing wrong?
March 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
R help needed!
Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv
I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message
However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following:
[1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label"
What am I doing wrong?
Failing to timescale my tree.tre using an FAD and LAD .csv
I get the classic "Taxon names for tree and ages do not match" error message
However, using "setdiff(names(tree),rownames(Ages))" gives the following:
[1] "edge" "Nnode" "tip.label"
What am I doing wrong?
Such a cool study! Palaeontology meets Star Wars, what's not to love?
This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...
Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? Estimating the bite force of an intergalactic mega-predator
Stephan Lautenschlager1,2 & Thomas Clements3 1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2The Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, UK. 3…
jgeekstudies.org
March 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Such a cool study! Palaeontology meets Star Wars, what's not to love?
Science collective; does anyone have a PDF of the following?
Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11
Thanks in advance!
Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11
Thanks in advance!
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Science collective; does anyone have a PDF of the following?
Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11
Thanks in advance!
Haughton, S.H. (1924) On reptilian remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 80, 1-11
Thanks in advance!
Received an angry letter from the Student Loans Company today because I am a whole £0.01 (!) behind on my loan repayments... 😅
February 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Received an angry letter from the Student Loans Company today because I am a whole £0.01 (!) behind on my loan repayments... 😅
Reposted by Jordan Bestwick
A bit of impromptu 'fieldwork' on our dear Plateosaurus today - Ben Pabst & @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social enjoying the Monday quiet in our museum 💚🦕
February 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A bit of impromptu 'fieldwork' on our dear Plateosaurus today - Ben Pabst & @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social enjoying the Monday quiet in our museum 💚🦕
This #FossilFriday I'm writing about #pterosaurs and birds, so here's a pic of Campylognathoides from the early Jurassic
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
February 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This #FossilFriday I'm writing about #pterosaurs and birds, so here's a pic of Campylognathoides from the early Jurassic
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We describe the earliest-known specimen of a chimaerid egg capsule from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland
Yes, I know it's weird for me to be publishing on non-reptiles 😅
Paper fully OA here: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
We describe the earliest-known specimen of a chimaerid egg capsule from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland
Yes, I know it's weird for me to be publishing on non-reptiles 😅
Paper fully OA here: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
The first record of a shortnose chimaera-like egg capsule from the Mesozoic (Late Jurassic, Switzerland) - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Chondrichthyan egg capsules, fossil and recent, have a taxonomical significance that can provide important insights into the occurrence and reproductive strategy of their producers. However, the rare ...
sjpp.springeropen.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We describe the earliest-known specimen of a chimaerid egg capsule from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland
Yes, I know it's weird for me to be publishing on non-reptiles 😅
Paper fully OA here: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
We describe the earliest-known specimen of a chimaerid egg capsule from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland
Yes, I know it's weird for me to be publishing on non-reptiles 😅
Paper fully OA here: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Signed!
Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.
Please keep signing & sharing.
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Please keep signing & sharing.
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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February 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Signed!
This #PterosaurPtuesday here's an adorable juvenile Scaphognathus from Solnhofen, Germany
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
February 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This #PterosaurPtuesday here's an adorable juvenile Scaphognathus from Solnhofen, Germany
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Specimen housed at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Currently juggling manuscripts (as lead or co-author) on:
i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology
ii) Dinosaur pathology
iii) Dinosaur microwear
iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)
i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology
ii) Dinosaur pathology
iii) Dinosaur microwear
iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)
a man in a purple tuxedo is juggling plates on sticks on a stage
ALT: a man in a purple tuxedo is juggling plates on sticks on a stage
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January 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Currently juggling manuscripts (as lead or co-author) on:
i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology
ii) Dinosaur pathology
iii) Dinosaur microwear
iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)
i) Pterosaur & avialan ecomorphology
ii) Dinosaur pathology
iii) Dinosaur microwear
iv) Chondrichthyes egg cases (yes, I know this one seems random)
For #FossilFriday here is one of my favourite pterosaurs, Istiodactylus, from the Cretaceous of the UK
Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures!
Specimen housed at the London NHM
Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures!
Specimen housed at the London NHM
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For #FossilFriday here is one of my favourite pterosaurs, Istiodactylus, from the Cretaceous of the UK
Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures!
Specimen housed at the London NHM
Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures!
Specimen housed at the London NHM
Reposted by Jordan Bestwick
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January 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
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# CPEGCPB25