I won't be able to make it this year but for anyone interested in #paleontology and #dinosaurs or anything related, check it out! :D
Via Darren Naish on Twitter:
#DinoConUK 2026 happens at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on July 25th-26th and early indications are that it's gonna be huge. Tickets go on sale TOMORROW. https://www.dinocon.co.uk/
The very first #DinoConUK!
Matt and I are just back from the first DinoCon, a British dinosaur convention hosted at Exeter University by Darren Naish (the silent partner at SV-POW!) and colleagues. Among other things, it was a great chance for the three of us to get together, for the first time since the 2019 SVPCA on the Isle of Wight. It was a pretty amazing event: about 800 people, I believe, including a few professional palaeontologists, lots of amateur…
This week at the library: No new books; instead, I took two huge piles of books to #DinoConUK and got them ALL signed (thanks @TetZoo and @markwitton for humouring me rocking up with a stack of your books). Overall, an excellent convention on which I will have more to say soon.
And yes, that is the just-published rerelease of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs from Breakdown Press! Keep your eyes peeled for a review in the near future.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology @princetonupress
Well, day one of #DinoConUk done. Talks on fossil preparation, sauropod skin, the history of the Carnegie diplodocus, life as an animator, and the biomechanics of Tyrannosaurs.
So hard to pick a favourite, they were all genuinely excellent.
But if I had to pick, gun-to-head… highlight for me was “Skinning Diplodocus” by Tess Gallagher. Really engaging, funny presentation of fascinating cutting edge science. And a couple of winks at unpublished work to build the anticipation. 😄
Checked in for #DinoConUk! And randomly found myself being checked in by an old friend who I had no idea was here this year, never mind volunteering!
Great surprise. 😄
TheDinolass 🦖
Mike Taylor 🦕
shrimposaurus🦖
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The Inquisitive Biologist
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