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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · May 19

⚠️Don't forget to join us today - Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Feb 27

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨
For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website:
www.palass.org/meetings-eve...

#conference #student #uk

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · May 6

If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

“A history of the world imperfectly kept”: Will we ever know how biodiversity has changed over deep time?

doi.org

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · May 14

Well done Ming - a sterling viva performance and a fantastic thesis.

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Ming Khan @ming-tfk27.bsky.social · May 9

PhDone!!! Passed my viva with minor corrections!

Thanks to @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social and Andrea Manica for supervising, and Prof Rob Fletcher and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social for examining!

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Apr 15

The badger might be making a very good point....

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Apr 4

Waiting for my flight back to the UK at Oslo airport. Had a great time visiting @lhliow.bsky.social and her group to give @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations lecture. Oslo is so nice!

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Apr 4

Fell in love a bit with Oslo today 🇳🇴

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Apr 2

Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Mar 23

Last week, Palaeo@Leeds PHR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her NERC funded research on the recovery of marine ecosystems following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction to the Leeds Geologists Association.

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Mar 12

Got a spare evening on March 20th? Come and see Palaeo@Leeds PGR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social talk about her research on "Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction" with the Leeds Geological Society at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social

leedsga.org.uk/event/ecosys...

Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction - Leeds Geological Association

Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. Lecture given by Annabel Nichols, University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment. The Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME ~252Ma)...

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Mar 3

Palaeo@Leeds PGR @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writes about polytemporalism and her PhD project on how poetry can help us understand mass extinction events for the @uk.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...

How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events

Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.

theconversation.com

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Feb 25

On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social!

www.palass.org/awards-grant...

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Feb 24

Have a listen to Palaeo@Leeds postgrad @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social and Leeds-based palaeoartist James McKay talking about James' new book "Yorkshire's Amazing Dinosaurs" on local BBC Radio.

12 mins in...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sile Sibanda - 21/02/2025 - BBC Sounds

Conversation and music for our African and Caribbean communities with Sile Sibanda.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Feb 7

Had a great evening, speaking to @geologyglasgow.bsky.social about modelling fossil food webs across mass extinction and recovery for the @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology series. A really interesting group, full of questions and interesting stories. Thanks for having me folks!

Geological Society of Glasgow @geologyglasgow.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-...
All welcome.

Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction | Geological Society of Glasgow

Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds

geologyglasgow.org.uk

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Feb 3

send me an invite... it's not far 👍

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Feb 3

Off up north to Glasgow this week - come along and listen to me chat about mass extinctions and what happened to life in our oceans millions of years ago!

Geological Society of Glasgow @geologyglasgow.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-...
All welcome.

Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction | Geological Society of Glasgow

Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds

geologyglasgow.org.uk

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Jan 21

Our Exceptional Lecturer @dralexdunhill.bsky.social will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC in Oxford at PalaeoClub @ox.ac.uk. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/events or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · Dec 18

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds, UK with myself, @willhomoky.bsky.social @altagliabue.bsky.social @marmite-usf.bsky.social S.Ussher & A. Milne studying how natural iron fertilisation shapes phytoplankton growth and impacts our climate. Deadline 8th Jan. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/sou...

Southern Ocean carbon pump vulnerability to changing iron supply - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network

Using your results, you will be able to test assumptions and make predictions about iron-mediated impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump.

yes-dtn.ac.uk

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Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social · Dec 18

My group and I had a great time at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting at FAU Erlangen last week... just about recovered now.

Here are the highlights of the conference from a DeepBio@Leeds perspective...

amdunhill.co.uk/2024/12/17/d...

#PalAss24

DeepBio@Leeds @ #PalAss24 in Erlangen

The group have just returned from an excellent 68th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Erlangen, Germany, with Baran Karapunar, Amy Shipley, Lydia Woods, Kate Simpson, Euan Malpa…

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Dec 12

Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Dec 10

Poster on ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction by @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Dec 10

Poster on extinctions drivers of the Pliocene megafaunal extinction by @sauropodlets.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Dec 10

Invited symposium talk by @barankarapunar.bsky.social on community collapse across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction #PalAss24

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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · Dec 10

Poster by Lilian Perez-Sosa et al. on modelling extinction rates in the Phanerozoic on 500 year intervals (presented by @dralexdunhill.bsky.social) #PalAss24

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