Palaeo@Leeds
@palaeoleeds.bsky.social
The Palaeo@Leeds Research Group is a multidisciplinary group of palaeobiologists, climate modellers, and geochemists based in
the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
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⚠️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.
May 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
⚠️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.
Palaeo@Leeds ECRs are awesome!
Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!
Congratulations to Dr Amy McGuire, Dr Fred Bowyer and Dr Khushboo Gurung, who have earned awards from The Geological Society for their contributions to geoscience! 🏅
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
May 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Palaeo@Leeds ECRs are awesome!
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Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!
Congratulations to Dr Amy McGuire, Dr Fred Bowyer and Dr Khushboo Gurung, who have earned awards from The Geological Society for their contributions to geoscience! 🏅
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Leeds geoscientists awarded by The Geological Society
Three academics at the School of Earth and Environment have been awarded by the Geological Society for their contributions to geoscience.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!
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Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts!
lifeandplanet.com
lifeandplanet.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts!
lifeandplanet.com
lifeandplanet.com
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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...
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
May 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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...
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
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Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯
April 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯
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.
March 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
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...
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)...
leedsga.org.uk
March 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
leedsga.org.uk/event/ecosys...
Huge congratulations to our very Prof Ben Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social for becoming the UK Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering on the receipt of a highly prestigious Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.
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Benjamin J.W. Mills | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Recognized for: Pioneering development of long-timescale models of the Earth, linking geology and biology, and giving insight into the linked atmospheric and geologic history of our habitable planet.
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March 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Huge congratulations to our very Prof Ben Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social for becoming the UK Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering on the receipt of a highly prestigious Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.
blavatnikawards.org/honorees/pro...
blavatnikawards.org/honorees/pro...
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...
theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...
How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events
Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.
theconversation.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...
theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...
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Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps.
See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps.
See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Professor Benjamin Mills is one of the finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the UK! 👏
He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution.
www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...
He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution.
www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...
February 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Professor Benjamin Mills is one of the finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the UK! 👏
He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution.
www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...
He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution.
www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...
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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!
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February 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
www.palass.org/awards-grant...
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...
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12 mins in...
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Sile Sibanda - 21/02/2025 - BBC Sounds
Conversation and music for our African and Caribbean communities with Sile Sibanda.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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/...
12 mins in...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Palaeo@Leeds researchers have been busy in the first month of 2025... check out our latest set of publications ranging from mass extinctions, biostratigraphy and geochronology, molluscan genomics, and marine geochemistry 🌋🪨☄️🌍⛏️🧬🦪⌛🌊🧪
February 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Palaeo@Leeds researchers have been busy in the first month of 2025... check out our latest set of publications ranging from mass extinctions, biostratigraphy and geochronology, molluscan genomics, and marine geochemistry 🌋🪨☄️🌍⛏️🧬🦪⌛🌊🧪
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Excited to be speaking about marine deoxygenation in the past and future at EGU 2025. Please consider also submitting to the session!
January 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Excited to be speaking about marine deoxygenation in the past and future at EGU 2025. Please consider also submitting to the session!
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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!
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.
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
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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!
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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.
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
January 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
All welcome.
We hosted the 1st CPEG back in 2018 in Leeds -- it's a brilliant conference. Anyone working on, or generally interested, in the interface between past and present ecology should register!
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch
January 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We hosted the 1st CPEG back in 2018 in Leeds -- it's a brilliant conference. Anyone working on, or generally interested, in the interface between past and present ecology should register!
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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...
January 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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...
Interested in marine palaeoecology? Looking for a funded PhD? Then apply to come to Leeds to study Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/arc...
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Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities Professor Crispin Little, Professor Fiona Gill, Dr Stephen Hunter (all School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds); Dr Steffen Kiel (Department of ...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Interested in marine palaeoecology? Looking for a funded PhD? Then apply to come to Leeds to study Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/arc...
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/arc...
Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24
...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!
December 10, 2024 at 1:19 PM
...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!
Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction
December 10, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction
#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM
#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social