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Sam Neill's iconic role as Dr Alan Grant in #JurassicPark is a huge inspiration to generations of children & palaeontologists, so this #FossilFriday we want to know how he inspired your scientific career. Let us know your thoughts & RT theconversation.com/how-sam-neil... - @heapsgood.bsky.social

How Sam Neill’s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of palaeontologistsAs Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Sam Neill portrayed a scientist who was authentic, normal and relatable. For many budding paleontologists, it was life changing.theconversation.com

Check out @sally-foundafossil.bsky.social interview with @news.abc.net.au about how Sam Neill's performance as Dr Alan Grant inspired her career in palaeontology www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMv7.... You can read @heapsgood.bsky.social & my tribute to Sam here theconversation.com/how-sam-neil...

ABC Drive Interview - Sally Hurst and the impact of Sam Neill on palaeontologyYouTube video by Found a Fossilwww.youtube.com

You can now read Michael Mills (@heapsgood.bsky.social) & my tribute to Sam Neill in Spanish (theconversation.com/la-interpret...) - thanks @theconversation.com bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sam Neill's iconic role as Dr Alan Grant in #JurassicPark has been a huge inspiration to generations of children & palaeontologists (incl. myself), so Michael Mills (@heapsgood.bsky.social) & I decided we should write a tribute to the dinosaur man theconversation.com/how-sam-neil... 1/2 🧵

How Sam Neill’s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of paleontologistsAs Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Sam Neill portrayed a scientist who was authentic, normal and relatable. For many budding paleontologists, it was life changing.theconversation.com

Check out my interview on RNZ Nights about @heapsgood.bsky.social & my tribute to Sam Neill's inspirational performance in #JurassicPark as the dinosaur man Dr Alan Grant www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro.... You can also check our @aunz.theconversation.com piece here theconversation.com/how-sam-neil...

How Sir Sam Neill inspired a generation of palaeontologistsSam Neill's portrayal of Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park impacted one profession in particular - palaeontologists.www.rnz.co.nz

19 June 1828: newspapers carry a report from Lyme Regis, noting several ichthyosaurs in Mary Anning's shop, her discovery of a large ammonite and some coprolitic news. She often featured in newspaper reports, written probably by her friend George Roberts who seems to have handled her PR.

The ammonite lampposts of Lyme Regis.

Annual pilgrimage to say hello to Mary Anning. Her Purbeck stone gravestone looking more licheny and mossy now (it was cleaned in 2017). The stone was recut several times during the 20th century so we don’t know for sure what it originally said.

As it's the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this weekend, today's #FossilFriday just has to be Mary Anning's famous ichthyosaur, found by Mary and her brother in 1811 and 1812. First illustrated in 1814 and many, many times since, it's an icon of early 19th century vertebrate palaeontology.

Happy World Oceans Day! When our federal government repeatedly steps on rakes around ocean policy, it can be easy to get discouraged. But there's still so much we can do in the meantime! (P.S. this is part of an upcoming collab with Philly artist Sam Heimer)

Absolutely, what a feeling... #BookSky

Just a week to go until this year's Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, a great weekend packed with events. I'll be talking about Mary Anning's World at 4pm in the Marine Theatre next Saturday. Hope to see you there!

Well this is just shitty, shitty news #RIP www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Breaking: Neale Daniher, former AFL player and motor neurone disease campaigner, diesFormer Essendon player and Demons coach Neale Daniher has died, aged 65. He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2013 and campaigned to raise awareness of the disease and increase research.www.abc.net.au

Happy Birthday Mary Anning 🦑 A pioneer. Without formal education. From working class background. Becoming breadwinner at a young age. Reshaped how we see the world. Now, globally recognised as the lady that started it all. Thank you, Mary, you're an inspiration.

21 May 1799, Lyme Regis: birth of palaeontologist Mary Anning, the fifth of the nine children of Richard and Mary Anning. By 1821 newspapers describe her as ‘this persevering and successful collector of extraneous fossils’ and from the mid-1820s, she is Lyme's biggest tourist attraction.

It's #InternationalMuseumsDay, so here's my favourite museum, the brilliant little Lyme Regis Museum, completed in 1901 by Thomas Philpot, great-nephew of Elizabeth Philpot. Occupying 2 sides of Cockmoile Square, the wing with the arched windows is built on the site of Mary Anning's house 1809–26.

Looking at gender ratio (% of women) of palaeontological journals: Nature Ecology and Evolution (35%) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (31%) Cladistics (30%) Gondwana Research (27%) Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (25%) Cretaceous Research (25%) Papers in Palaeontology (23%)

In case you think losing 95k scientists in a year is normal, it's decidedly not.

All good wishes to @heapsgood.bsky.social and the cast of 'A Curious Thing' for their opening on Wednesday night at the Adelaide Fringe where the lucky folks in the audience will meet not one, not two, but three Mary Annings! Great to hear tickets are going fast.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

When a young woman is raped by two friends, her small town turns against herA local footy star and his mate are convicted of raping their friend. In the tiny town of Balmoral, where the footy club reigns, the town makes it clear whose story they believe.www.abc.net.au