SVPCA is not extinct. After a year off in 2025 and a period of silence, organisers of recent SVPCA have met with other interested parties to discuss future symposia, including provisional plans for a meeting in late August or early September 2026. More details to follow very soon.
#SVPCA #zoology #palaeontology #paleontology #science #comparativeanatomy

Hands up who loves #dinosaurs!

Hands up who loves the history of #Palaeontology

Hands up who was disappointed to miss my talk "The untold story of the Carnegie #Diplodocus" at #SVPCA last week?

If all three of your hands are up, get yourself over to YouTube, where you can watch a recording I just made after the fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGIacxCaaQ

The untold story of the Carnegie Diplodocus

YouTube

Infuriating to find that #LibreOffice, on which I created the 13 Mb, 64 slide deck for my #SVPCA talk, cannot export it as a PDF: it crashes every time, even when I save my PPTX as an ODP, quit, open the ODP and try to export from that.

I am running LibreOffice v7.6.0.3 on Mac OS X 12.6.8.

Anyone have any ideas?

CC @libreoffice,

Just fifteen minutes left to vote on what talk I should submit to #SVPCA! Please vote at https://sauropods.win/@mike/110768027084173185
Mike Taylor (@[email protected])

Today is the abstract submission deadline for #SVPCA. What should I submit? (See posts in subsequent thread for a bit more detail on each.) [ ] Carnegie Diplodoocus: the Untold Story [ ] What, if anything, is a shoulder? [ ] Which way is up for a vertebra? [ ] How did the air get into pneumatic vertebrae?

Sauropods.win

Today is the abstract submission deadline for #SVPCA. What should I submit?

(See posts in subsequent thread for a bit more detail on each.)

Carnegie Diplodoocus: the Untold Story
50%
What, if anything, is a shoulder?
33.3%
Which way is up for a vertebra?
0%
How did the air get into pneumatic vertebrae?
16.7%
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