The best thing about collaborations is that I get to work with amazing colleagues from around the world.

I’m delighted to announce the publication today of my new paper “ Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur”. This is the peer-reviewed version, in my favourite journal PeerJ , of the manuscript that became available as a preprint eight months ago — which was in turn a formalisation of a blog-post from 2015.

There’s just time before midnight strikes to wish Xenoposeidon a very happy tenth birthday. It came along just a month and a half after SV-POW! itself — in fact, I can’t even remember now, a decade on, whether part of the reason we started SV-POW! in the first place was so we’d have somewhere to talk about it when the paper (Taylor and Naish 2007) came out.

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Now that the new Wilson and Allain (2015) paper has redescribed Rebbachisaurus , we can use it to start thinking about some other specimens.

Sauropod guru Jeff Wilson is on Twitter, as of a couple of weeks ago. In one of his earliest tweets, he showed the world this gorgeous photo of a Rebbachisaurus dorsal: Jeff Wilson (left) and Ronan Allain (right), with dorsal vertebra of Rebbachisaurus . Photograph by MNHN photographer, Copyright © Muséum National d’Histoire Natural.

Here is Tataouinea , named by Fanti et al. (2013) last week — the first sauropod to be named after a locality from Star Wars (though, sadly, that is accidental — the etymology refers to the Tataouine Governatorate of Tunisia). Fanti et al. (2013: figure 3) T. hannibalis selected elements and reconstruction. ( a ) Sacral neural arches 1-3, right lateral view;

Just a quick note that my article Academic publishers have become the enemies of science is now up on the Guardian’s Science Blog.  Spread the word! (You’re welcome to comment here, of course, but if you post your comments on the Guardian site, they will be much more widely read.

Here at SV-POW! Towers, we have often lamented that so much dinosaur research is locked up behind the paywalls of big for-profit commercial publishers, and that even work that’s been funded by public money is often not available to the public.