@simonwills.bsky.social
Palaeontologist, dinosaurs, AI and geospatial
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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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August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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?...
Think I’ve found the updated Temple of Zeus ..
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Think I’ve found the updated Temple of Zeus ..
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.
June 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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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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
June 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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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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
June 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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...
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.
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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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...
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
May 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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...
Thank you @elliechowns.bsky.social for so passionately speaking up for this today. Very disappointed in the government.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another awful day at work, assessing the rates of mangrove removal using high resolution satellite data ….
May 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Another awful day at work, assessing the rates of mangrove removal using high resolution satellite data ….
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What writer hasn’t had this exact fear?
H/tRob Simbeckk, and Lee Dugatkin on Facebook
H/tRob Simbeckk, and Lee Dugatkin on Facebook
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What writer hasn’t had this exact fear?
H/tRob Simbeckk, and Lee Dugatkin on Facebook
H/tRob Simbeckk, and Lee Dugatkin on Facebook
March 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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...
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
March 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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...
www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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Actually, quite flattering.
March 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Actually, quite flattering.
The ex Cheeky Girls groupie #LembitOpik is fun these days ….
March 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The ex Cheeky Girls groupie #LembitOpik is fun these days ….
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As Orwell predicted.
March 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As Orwell predicted.
