Stu Pond
@stupond.bsky.social
PaleoStu. Self-employed creative specialising in scientific visualisation, illustration, motion graphics, graphic design, 3D. Aspiring palaeontologist working on armoured dinosaurs. Scientific Associate at The Natural History Museum, London 🦕
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Although #2025SVP officially starts tomorrow, today we have a Triassic field trip to Warwickshire, tours of @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, workshops run by @markwitton.bsky.social & @graphicssci.bsky.social & our evening Walking With Dinosaurs event chaired by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Although #2025SVP officially starts tomorrow, today we have a Triassic field trip to Warwickshire, tours of @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, workshops run by @markwitton.bsky.social & @graphicssci.bsky.social & our evening Walking With Dinosaurs event chaired by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social!
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This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
The best advice I received back when I gave my first presentation was, "This is your study and you know this subject better than anyone else who might be listening. Relax." It helped. #2025SVP
Many of our student attendees will be giving their first talk or poster this meeting! What advice you give them to help make it the best experience possible?
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
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My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
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Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN
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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
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Remember, our official hashtag structure is *year* then "SVP".
You can also find our full social media guidelines here: vertpaleo.org/social-media...
#2025SVP
You can also find our full social media guidelines here: vertpaleo.org/social-media...
#2025SVP
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Remember, our official hashtag structure is *year* then "SVP".
You can also find our full social media guidelines here: vertpaleo.org/social-media...
#2025SVP
You can also find our full social media guidelines here: vertpaleo.org/social-media...
#2025SVP
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Travelling to #2025SVP? Weather looks like a mixed bag, typical for November in England. Unlikely to be particularly cold, but some rain guaranteed. Bring an umbrella 🙂.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Travelling to #2025SVP? Weather looks like a mixed bag, typical for November in England. Unlikely to be particularly cold, but some rain guaranteed. Bring an umbrella 🙂.
Scientific visualisation is a speciality of mine. Illustrations, graphic design, motion graphics. Got lots of capacity. Get in touch via DM or my website (link below👇). #SciArt
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Scientific visualisation is a speciality of mine. Illustrations, graphic design, motion graphics. Got lots of capacity. Get in touch via DM or my website (link below👇). #SciArt
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November 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Very sad to hear of the passing of Dougie Ross. I had the pleasure of spending an hour or so chatting about dinosaur footprints and thyreophorans when we visited the museum at Staffin on Skye a couple of years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tributes to champion of Skye's 'Dinosaur Island' - BBC News
Dougie Ross, who has died at the age of 68, made his first fossil discoveries when he was a boy.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Very sad to hear of the passing of Dougie Ross. I had the pleasure of spending an hour or so chatting about dinosaur footprints and thyreophorans when we visited the museum at Staffin on Skye a couple of years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The piece I wrote for The Microbiologist just got published! www.the-microbiologist.com/features/mic...
Microbial-induced pathologies in 80-million-year-old dinosaur bones
In the microbiology laboratory, we observe infection in real-time: bacterial colonies spreading across agar plates, inflammatory markers rising in blood samples, and immune responses captured at singl...
www.the-microbiologist.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The piece I wrote for The Microbiologist just got published! www.the-microbiologist.com/features/mic...
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New paper just out on the histology of Liaoningosaurus where we demonstrate that these tiny animals are all one year old or less www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bone histology of Liaoningosaurus paradoxus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Liaoningosaurus paradoxus, from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China, is represented by numerous specimens identified as juvenile individuals based on their b...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New paper just out on the histology of Liaoningosaurus where we demonstrate that these tiny animals are all one year old or less www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I can remember the first time I saw a thin section under a microscope. I was fascinated by the science and struck by the beauty of the sections. I couldn't wait to see thin sections of dinosaur bone, so had my own slides made from rolled fragments picked up on IOW beaches. #palaeontology
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I can remember the first time I saw a thin section under a microscope. I was fascinated by the science and struck by the beauty of the sections. I couldn't wait to see thin sections of dinosaur bone, so had my own slides made from rolled fragments picked up on IOW beaches. #palaeontology
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Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇
From the day job: The monitoring of Prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels is a vital tool in screening for prostate cancer. In this shot PSA is about to leave a cell in the prostate gland and head into the bloodstream. Cinema 4D, After Effects, zBrush, Logic X. #SciVis #SciArt
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...
Job description: General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle
The Isle of Wight Council - The best place to find local government services and information
www.iow.gov.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...
Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Alright? Going to #SVP2025 in Birmingham? Make yourself at home with a bit of Brummie lingo on your tee-shirt! Bostin! Alternatively, bag a cool palaeo-related tee and impress your friends and peers. Link to my RedBubble shop in the comments 👇
PaleoStu's Movie Reviews: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. When does a movie become art? This Thai film moves at a gentle pace and invites the viewer to drift along with the narrative. Superb sound design. Sensitive, thoughtful filmaking that lingers in the mind.
Recommended. 8/10
Recommended. 8/10
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
PaleoStu's Movie Reviews: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. When does a movie become art? This Thai film moves at a gentle pace and invites the viewer to drift along with the narrative. Superb sound design. Sensitive, thoughtful filmaking that lingers in the mind.
Recommended. 8/10
Recommended. 8/10
I create scientific illustrations and animations. Hire me.
Here's my reel 👇 #SciArt
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Here's my reel 👇 #SciArt
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reel — Stuart Pond Design
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I create scientific illustrations and animations. Hire me.
Here's my reel 👇 #SciArt
stuartponddesign.com/reel-1
Here's my reel 👇 #SciArt
stuartponddesign.com/reel-1
On this day in 2012 we were at the SVP icebreaker at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. A terrific museum and a great meeting. The field trip to NC and Virginia was superb. We also visited the Great Smoky Mountains after the meeting. Great trip! #FossilFriday
October 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
On this day in 2012 we were at the SVP icebreaker at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. A terrific museum and a great meeting. The field trip to NC and Virginia was superb. We also visited the Great Smoky Mountains after the meeting. Great trip! #FossilFriday
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DAY III of the Creation was Carboniferous coal swamps, according to James Bateman, who by 1862 had built an elaborate geological gallery at his home Biddulph Grange.
Cast of a 300 million year old Ulodendron fossil, a stem of a giant clubmoss tree bearing large round scars.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬
Cast of a 300 million year old Ulodendron fossil, a stem of a giant clubmoss tree bearing large round scars.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
DAY III of the Creation was Carboniferous coal swamps, according to James Bateman, who by 1862 had built an elaborate geological gallery at his home Biddulph Grange.
Cast of a 300 million year old Ulodendron fossil, a stem of a giant clubmoss tree bearing large round scars.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬
Cast of a 300 million year old Ulodendron fossil, a stem of a giant clubmoss tree bearing large round scars.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
I specialise in scientific illustrations, motion graphics, animations and graphic design. Get in touch!
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I specialise in scientific illustrations, motion graphics, animations and graphic design. Get in touch!
Great article on the Oxfordshire sauropod trackway, with contributions from @dremmanicholls.bsky.social, Prof. Kirsty Edgar and @peterfalkingham.com, who also made the excellent animation. Check out the overhead shot too - very cool 🦕
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Huge dinosaur trackway uncovered in the UK - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great article on the Oxfordshire sauropod trackway, with contributions from @dremmanicholls.bsky.social, Prof. Kirsty Edgar and @peterfalkingham.com, who also made the excellent animation. Check out the overhead shot too - very cool 🦕
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...