Today, available for the first time, you can read my 2004 paper A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, place of discovery and year of description . It’s freely available (CC By 4.0) as a PeerJ Preprint. It’s one of those papers that does exactly what it says on the tin — you should be able to find some interesting patterns in the diversity of your own favourite dinosaur group.

This came out two months ago, and I should have blogged about it then, but as usual I am behind. I’m blogging about it now because it deals with a question that has been on my mind for about 10 years now.

Folks, You may know that the inaugral TetZooCon is set to take place next Saturday (12 July) at the London Wetland Centre. It’s an informal convention that’s condensed around occasional SV-POW!sketeer Darren Naish’s absurdly informative blog Tetrapod Zoology, and features a day of talks, a palaeoart workshop and a quiz. At £40 for the day, it’s a bit of a bargain.

Get your red/cyan anaglyph glasses on, and feast your eyes: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10537 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10537” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/06/27/xenoposeidon-in-glorious-3d/xenoposeidon-nhm-r2095-left-lateral-anaglyph/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/xenoposeidon-nhm-r2095-left-lateral-anaglyph.jpeg” orig-size=“2436,2759” comments-opened=“1”

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Check out this beautiful Lego Diplodocus : {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10521 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10521” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/06/18/a-beautiful-lego-diplodocus-skeleton/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop.jpg” orig-size=“480,319” comments-opened=“1”

We feature a lot of Brian Engh’s stuff here–enough that he has his own category. But lately he has really been outdoing himself. The wave of awesome started last year, when Brian started posting videos showing builds and suit tests for monsters–monster suits, monster puppets, monster you-name-its.

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In a couple of weeks (in the early afternoon of 25 June), I’ll be speaking at ESOF 2014 (the EuroScience Open Forum) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The session I’m part of is entitled “Should science always be open?”, and the irony is not lost on me that, as that page says, “You must be registered and signed in to download session materials.” So here is the abstract for my talk — one of four in the session, to be followed by an open discussion.