Liz Martin-Silverstone
@gimpasaura.bsky.social
Palaeontologist interested in biomechanics and tomography. Business owner. Lab manager for the University of Bristol Palaeobiology group. she/her. Opinions mine.
As I was struggling to stay upright walking around Brussels I looked down at the very slippery paving stones and discovered they were full of fossils! Not great for my shows but fun to notice walking around central Brussels. Can’t take a palaeontologist anywhere… 😅
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As I was struggling to stay upright walking around Brussels I looked down at the very slippery paving stones and discovered they were full of fossils! Not great for my shows but fun to notice walking around central Brussels. Can’t take a palaeontologist anywhere… 😅
On my way back to Bristol after a great #2025SVP. Thanks to all the organisers for a great conference and getting me to use my brain a bit and be a scientist for the first time in 9 months. So lovely to catch up with so many friends I haven’t seen in a while.
I love my palaeo pals ❤️
I love my palaeo pals ❤️
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
On my way back to Bristol after a great #2025SVP. Thanks to all the organisers for a great conference and getting me to use my brain a bit and be a scientist for the first time in 9 months. So lovely to catch up with so many friends I haven’t seen in a while.
I love my palaeo pals ❤️
I love my palaeo pals ❤️
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Looking forward to catching up with people at #2025SVP this week! I’m only at the conference on Wednesday but around socially for some of Thursday and Saturday!
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Looking forward to catching up with people at #2025SVP this week! I’m only at the conference on Wednesday but around socially for some of Thursday and Saturday!
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Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025:
Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!
Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!
vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...
Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!
Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!
vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025:
Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!
Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!
vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...
Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!
Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!
vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...
I hope the 2 30ish guys who had parked in their fancy car in the “parking with children” section of Sainsbury’s thought at least slightly bad when I was struggling to get my baby out of a tiny spot in the pouring rain and sorting out the stroller. I shouted at them. They didn’t respond. Mom wrath
September 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I hope the 2 30ish guys who had parked in their fancy car in the “parking with children” section of Sainsbury’s thought at least slightly bad when I was struggling to get my baby out of a tiny spot in the pouring rain and sorting out the stroller. I shouted at them. They didn’t respond. Mom wrath
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
I’m always annoyed by the suggestion that there are too many c-sections. They happen for a reason, and the decision isn’t taken lightly. If I hadn’t had one when I did I may not be here today. And I didn’t have a complex pregnancy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than half of UK births now involve medical intervention, audit finds
Caesareans drive rise in assisted deliveries as experts warn of complex pregnancies linked to age, obesity and other conditions
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I’m always annoyed by the suggestion that there are too many c-sections. They happen for a reason, and the decision isn’t taken lightly. If I hadn’t had one when I did I may not be here today. And I didn’t have a complex pregnancy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social when will a more detailed schedule come out? I am likely only registering for 1-2 days of the conference but need the schedule to know when. I was hoping to do this before the early registration deadline but can’t yet
September 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social when will a more detailed schedule come out? I am likely only registering for 1-2 days of the conference but need the schedule to know when. I was hoping to do this before the early registration deadline but can’t yet
Got asked to do an interview for a tv programme on a paper coming out tomorrow. Had to decline because baby life. They asked me for a suggestion of another woman based in the UK that they could contact… which is how I realised there are far too few women who work on pterosaurs. And none in the UK?
July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got asked to do an interview for a tv programme on a paper coming out tomorrow. Had to decline because baby life. They asked me for a suggestion of another woman based in the UK that they could contact… which is how I realised there are far too few women who work on pterosaurs. And none in the UK?
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[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!
June 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!
Check out this article @davehone.bsky.social, Mike Habib and I wrote based on our ideas about pterosaurs as models for aircraft. Heavy lifting done by Dave Hone and very little by me while I’m on mat leave, but still appreciate being involved!
Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.
How pterosaurs can inspire aircraft design
Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Check out this article @davehone.bsky.social, Mike Habib and I wrote based on our ideas about pterosaurs as models for aircraft. Heavy lifting done by Dave Hone and very little by me while I’m on mat leave, but still appreciate being involved!
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You’re doing great sweetie
May 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You’re doing great sweetie
Hey @theguardian.com why does news on Canada and the throne speech come under the headline “US politics live”? I know this is talking about the US threats but surely this is Canadian news not US…
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hey @theguardian.com why does news on Canada and the throne speech come under the headline “US politics live”? I know this is talking about the US threats but surely this is Canadian news not US…
Today is brought to me by trying to have healthier snacks while breastfeeding and now absolutely starving. Whyyyyy
patrick star from spongebob squarepants is holding a fork and knife and says " im starving "
ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is holding a fork and knife and says " im starving "
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May 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today is brought to me by trying to have healthier snacks while breastfeeding and now absolutely starving. Whyyyyy
Pleasantly surprised to turn on BBC Breakfast this morning to find them at Pipestone Creek, a bonebed I’ve done fieldwork at, followed by my friends and colleague @stevebrusatte.bsky.social! Looking forward to Walking with Dinosaurs this weekend
May 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Pleasantly surprised to turn on BBC Breakfast this morning to find them at Pipestone Creek, a bonebed I’ve done fieldwork at, followed by my friends and colleague @stevebrusatte.bsky.social! Looking forward to Walking with Dinosaurs this weekend
My life on mat leave
May 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My life on mat leave
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We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
April 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
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🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
April 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
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Canadian universities have started doing this too. My own sent out an email a week or two ago offering wiped laptops to borrow for people going to the US. (They should probably warn against US travel entirely, but...)
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
April 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Canadian universities have started doing this too. My own sent out an email a week or two ago offering wiped laptops to borrow for people going to the US. (They should probably warn against US travel entirely, but...)