mmmm Fossils!

Hi Guys! This is my sexy Scaphites from the Isle of Wight. Love you all xxx

Cake!

I just posted this pic on my myspace blog, but since you're not all on myspace, I had to share.

It's my birthday today. This is my birthday cake:


How cool is that?!! And quite tasty too! And it came with dino stickers and everything! It made my day.

Descisions..

...on where to actually post stuff. My blog, or this one? Well, H. Armstrong emailed me to say that the research committee were meeting tomorrow to decide which four proposals to put forward to the university. Apparently there were eight, with the one I'm going for hidden away in there somewhere. Wish me luck peeps that it gets through! And if it does, then I need even more luck for the University to actually decide to give the funding to me and not some other random person! *fingers crossed*

From morphospace to cyberspace....

Well it seems we shall all have plenty to keep our fingers from lingering idle by our keyboards now. This blog is a fantastic idea. Ben well done you for setting it up! I really don't want to have to go to the lab now!

So, on to matters palaeo: For everyone who can come to Progpal, I have couch-space and Phil and I are giving talks. Phil is introducing his research and I am demonstrating how efficient use of NERC funding can be effective when planning jollies on the beach. The planners are still considering late submissions so if anyone has a burning desire to wow their peers with pretty pictures, submit an abstract pronto! I can't wait to see you there!
On a final note for now, this is the ultimate geek forum and personally I think it would be great if we really did use it to discuss shop every now and again. I could learn a lot from you people and it would really save on text books.

Olivooides RULES etc etc....

is it rob? is it a bat? or is it a robosaurus?!

you are the subject of another funny photo upload!

late night pubbing

Excellent. a good way to spend one's sunday evening i feel. Here is one of the (very few) pics i took at graduation time...enjoy

A virtual home for the palaeobristological diaspora

Hello everyone!

I've set this up a space for us to keep in touch, post photographs, and generally help our sense of community live on as we spread around the globe in our covert quest for international dominion.

The username and password for this site are in the email I sent out, so you can log on to blogger.com any time and post away. I would suggest we keep access limited to those who were on the course, although I think anyone can use the "comment" feature to add their opinion, should someone from outside the innermost circle find their way to this distant outpost of cyberspace. Put your name in the "labels for this post:" field so we know who you are.

So -- the blog is open! Would anyone like to kick off with some photos from graduation? I've included one of my personal favorites from last year, taken by Lara.

It was fabulous to see you all last week; Lara and Andre, you were sorely missed.

Let the posting begin...

PS: Mac users beware -- Safari is a little moody when it comes to blogger, Firefox does much better...