Associate Professor in Palaeobiology @ University of Birmingham,
Research Lead @ Lapworth Museum of Geology,
vertebrate palaeontologist, dinosaurs, digital visualisation, biomechanics & functional morphology
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
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Worrying that this requires a whole article and is not simply the default position for academics… there is no shortcut to learning and research, at least none that has any lasting value.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
No serious scholars are using AI to do their writing for them. If you're using LLMs to write up research articles, review grants or manuscripts, or grade, you're a joke.
My take on the new study also here: edition.cnn.com/2026/05/25/s...
As a climate scientist I despair at inaction on climate change. As a person, I despair at our collective indifference to avoidable suffering.
But I am not sure that anything has caused me as much despair as the casual abandoning of that which makes us human - our creativity and communication.
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
Why does T. rex have such short arms? Just appeared on CNN to answer that question.
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
Nice to see that our article on the biomechanics of the sabre-tooths Barbourofelis and Smilodon received so much attention.
I only found out today that the tag #geodog exists! So here is palaeo/geo dog Minnie admiring the dinosaur footprint she found.
Great day out in the field with the year 1 palaeontology students, with lots of fossils and even more sunshine in Pembrokeshire.
Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
One contestant irk of palaeoart is that marine reptiles are always devouring my beloved cephalopods... Well no longer! Calling palaeoartists to realise my dream of a giant octopus get vengeance for all cephalopod kind!!!
My thoughts on the new paper here! 🐙
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
"Ante-ChatGPT, more than ninety-eight per cent of all English-language articles being published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half of such articles" 😬
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:
