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Dr. Bethany Allen
@bethanyjallen.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist interested in biodiversity patterns over long timescales 📉 Postdoc at @gfz.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Co-chair of @besmacro.bsky.social, member of @paleodb.bsky.social committee and @palaeoverse.bsky.social dev team 👩‍💻 She/her
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · Sep 4
Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 14h
🚨 Just one week left until our conference kicks off!

Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.

Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 15h
We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! Deadline is December 15, 2025. Visit the website with the necessary information before preparing a proposal. Questions? Contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics) Info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 1d
Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1
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Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.
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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 1d
OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 13d
🌳 What can Bayesian inference tell us about evolutionary history?
New edition of the course: Bayesian phylogenetic inference with BEAST2.

📅 27th October – 7th November 2025 (Online)

#WeareTransmittingScience
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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Marie Stenseke @mariestenseke.bsky.social · 7d
University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
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The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity - Academic Positions
Seeking an internationally recognized scientist for a prestigious professorship in biodiversity. Lead groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboratio...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d
My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.
"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. "Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa. "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 8d
I learned *so much* over the last two days, huge thanks to Natalie for pulling this all together! Excited to see what we discover about data and code archiving in BES journals 💻 👀
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8d
Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!
A room full of people working on laptops
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Peg Yacobucci @pegyaco.bsky.social · 8d
Our paper on perceptions of punctuated equilibrium - including suggestions for how to teach about this essential evolutionary concept - is now available online! doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial
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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

It’s time to announce our Winter 2025 talk schedule 👀
We’re excited to host talks from Drs Oskar Hagen, Carrie Tyler, @singerstone.bsky.social and Johannes De Groeve!

Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Flyer for the Winter schedule of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, usually the last Thursday of each month but with some dates moved this time to avoid public holidays. Scheduled for 3pm UTC. 30th October 2025 - Dr Oskar Hagen, Goethe University Frankfurt “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 20th November 2025 - Dr Carrie Tyler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 18th December 2025 - Dr Juan Cantalapiedra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 29th January 2026 - Dr Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam “Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)”
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 12d
Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 12d
What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 12d
Interesting paper combing two of my favorite things: fossil brachiopods and morphological phylogenetics. As one who occasionally dabbles in brachiopods (I can't seem to quit them), this is * really * difficult and important work!
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brachiopod.bsky.social @brachiopod.bsky.social · 13d
Our athyridide brachiopod paper has finally come out in Journal of Paleontology as FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/jpa..... Please let us know what you think!
Phylogeny of Athyridida (Brachiopoda): a comparison of methods of inference | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
Phylogeny of Athyridida (Brachiopoda): a comparison of methods of inference
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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Hank Woolley @paleo-hank.bsky.social · 14d
It’s finally out! Extremely pleased to share the last chapter of my dissertation to be published! In this study, we take a deep dive into the 242 million-year squamate 🦎🐍 fossil record to quantify factors that lead to the mostly fragmentary specimens in collections today: doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record
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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · 14d
New in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: 'Earth system engineers' and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time 🔓 #ecoevo #openaccess

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A thread 🧵:
‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 15d
🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
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Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.
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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 16d
Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 19d
Lecturer position advertised at Leeds, UK, working at the interface between ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry closes 2nd October www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR986/l...
Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions at University of Leeds
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 19d
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a yellow cartoon trilobite, and pictures of Drs. Mongiardino Koch and Garwood. Mongiardino Koch wears a grey t-shirt and glasses, while Garwood wears a white shirt and is holding a glass trophy.
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 20d
The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet seeks a Tenure-Track group Leader (DDLS fellow). Deadline: Nov 15. Benefits include 17 M SEK in start-up funds. More info: https://www.scilifelab.se/career/research-fellowship-in-data-driven-evolution-and-biodiversity/ #job
Research Fellowship in Data driven evolution and biodiversity
About the workplace The Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) is a major research institute located in Stockholm. NRM research activities combine venerable tradition and modern scientific methods, where state-of-the-art […]
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 20d
It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.

Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.
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