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Neil Gostling/EvoPalaeoLab
@neilgostling.bsky.social
I'm an Associate Professor of Evolution and Paleobiology at the Gostling Evolution and Paleobiology Lab, the University of Southampton.
Birds, Dinosaurs, Mammals, 'Animals', Evolution and Paleobiology, Placentology
And so, the GostlingEvoPalaeoLab and volunteers from the Dinosaur on Your Window Sill head off to a school fête to talk dinosaur and bird evolution.
#palaeoSaturday
July 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great day in the Palaeo lab at Dinosaur Isle with @christijanibarker.bsky.social and @jamesmacdonell.bsky.social looking at Isle of Wight dinosaurs. Keep an eye out for some exciting developments...
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Incredibly proud and grateful for the amazing efforts of the Southampton team at the #LymeRegisFossilFestival. We spoke to 1000s of people, and several local schools. The students were brilliant. Thank you all for hard work.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A super talk by asst producer Jay Balamurugun from #WalkingWithDinosaurs2025.
A wonderful insight into how the series was put together.
Lots of people were inspired in 1999, I am sure lots of new palaeos will result from the new series.
#LymeRegisFossilFestival
June 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fantastic talk about Mary Anning and her discoveries from @tomsharperocks.bsky.social at #LymeRegisFossilFestival
Anning was a fascinating person.
June 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Mike, from Everything Dinosaur is changing the dinosaur model world, no single use plastics, British design, development, scientifically accurate models of prehistoric animals...
June 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Day 2 of #LymeRegisFossilFestival and I am chairing talks!
The first is 'How to build a dinosaur' from the amazing team at Everything Dinosaur introducing the 'Evolutions' project... New dinosaur models...
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great day at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Lovely to see my former lecturers, from Reading, Amanda Callaghan and Graham Holloway. The star of the show was undoubtedly Karen Fawcett 's wonderful Ceratosuchops reproduction. A smashing, friendly, exciting day talking science. Last day tomorrow.
June 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
June 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We're at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival with MRes and PhD students from @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social and @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social. It's schools day today, but the festival is a weekend of palaeobiological delight. Come along and say hello.
@unisouthampton.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Really pleased to be on my way to @linneansociety.bsky.social for #PintOfScience.
Polly is excited too. Dodos are cool
@unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
And...
April 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What are people saying about Hidden in Stone at God's House Tower, Southampton?
If you haven't been yet there's still a few days of the Easter Holiday, and we're here until June 1st.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There's still time to get to Hidden in Stone for my talk on 'Dinosaurs of the South'. The talk starts at 6.30 at God's House Tower.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@willattard.bsky.social is giving a wonderful flint knapping demonstration at Hidden In Stone, at God's House Tower, this morning. How our recent ancestors made tools and interacted with the environment is fascinating.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
@willattard.bsky.social is giving a wonderful flint knapping demonstration at Hidden In Stone, at God's House Tower, this morning. How our recent ancestors made tools and interacted with the environment is fascinating.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hidden in Stone at God's House Tower features work from Archaeology and @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social of @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Here are some pieces inspired by the research in my lab, by @christijanibarker.bsky.social during his PhD... The Spinosaur Ceratosuchops... Work by Karen Fawcett
April 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Highlights from the last week at Hidden in Stone at God's House Tower. Come and find out about the last 200 million years in the south.
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Photos by Luke Shears
April 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hidden in Stone has been open for a week now. Today is our first workshop as @willattard.bsky.social demonstrates flint knapping! Join us at God's House Tower.
Here are some of the highlights from the last week...
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social MRes Evolution are looking at the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social to understanding how our view of prehistoric life has changed... WaterhouseHawkins' models were amazing introductions of dinosaurs to the world of the 1850s. @uosmedia.bsky.social @drmicrowill.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A wonderful day for the @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social MRes Evolution trip to Darwin's home, Down House. Learning about the social and personal implications of evolution. We're off to see the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social & understand the evolution of understanding dinosaurs @unisouthampton.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We have a rich fossil heritage on the south coast, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, the first humans on these islands... And everything in between. Come and find out about it at our new exhibition, running from April 4th to June 1st.
godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some of the women in the School of Biological Sciences Southampton, on UNESCO International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 2025. Undergraduates in Cell Biology and Physiology Biochemistry PhD students and Academics. @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
20 years. Thank you to everyone that supported me then, and all those who (in some cases, still) do now.
December 12, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Do you want a larger diversity of dinosaurs? Then enjoy this paper from lead author @christijanibarker.bsky.social with @tetzoo.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social, Lucy Handford, Christope Hendricks, Phil Hadland, Dave Brockhurst and me.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... artwork A. Hutching
December 5, 2024 at 11:51 AM