We had a good time and the sun shone. It was a great end to the week!

To the field trip! Where I talked a lot and pulled some funny faces, apparently. Among my many field-related skills, I fix broken walking boots.

Badge-swapping fun at the dinner... @pdmannion.bsky.social 's is now on @houdzgeorge.bsky.social 's desk. This seems to be a game that is no longer played by the youth. Sad. @peterfalkingham.com won.

And then it was Saturday, and time for @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and @pimkaskes.bsky.social talks and @kirstymedgar.bsky.social's poster...

I got this wet walking the three minutes from the conference centre to my hotel during Storm Claudia, the bitch....

Then we have the Triassic symposium in the room with the massive screen... @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social, @stephanspiekman.bsky.social, and @davfoff.bsky.social shown here..

Next up, my talk! Thanks for the photo @johellawell.bsky.social! And @richardjbutler.bsky.social giving a talk to Birmingham sixth formers on Wed lunchtime, because he didn't have much to do...

As there is a Waitrose right next to where you are sitting right now, Butler, I'd say yes

I didn't take it as criticism - it was a genuine question.

Over 900 abstracts were submitted. Many were already rejected outright. Longer poster sessions would either require rejecting more posters, or shortening talk sessions and rejecting more talks, or having a bigger venue and therefore higher registration fees. Which one do you think we should go for?

Meanwhile, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and myself have taken another group of delegates for the first day of a three-day dinosaurs and history focused trip, starting with the Natural History Museum & Charles Darwin’s home, Down House #2025SVP