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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · Sep 3

#ICP15 hosts a panel discussion by inviting a Science journalist to discuss aspects of Trust in Science. Our panel members are @carbon8.bsky.social @triptychphrases.bsky.social Dan Lunt Adina Paytan and Sambuddha Mishra
Hosted by Sahana Ghosh @nature.com India

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · 29d

CBEP 2026 - sites.google.com/view/cbep202...
2nd-7th August 2026 in Washington.
Sessions on:
Climate States and Processes
Stratigraphy and Surface Processes
Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems
Biogeochemical Cycles

CBEP2026

The Paleogene Period was a time of extremes and transitions. Bounded by the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous and the rise of modern grasslands, the climate of the Paleogene was globally mu...

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Neil R. Edwards @neil-r-edwards.bsky.social · Sep 3

New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Jul 8

AGU 2025, New Orleans: session on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates and paleoecology".

Submit an abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

@thefosterlab.bsky.social @flimsin.bsky.social @pages-ipo.bsky.social @leafwax.bsky.social @kencaldeira.com

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Davide Foffa @davfoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · May 6

Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @climatesamwell.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social

Top: Plot showing variation in the estimated slopes of the palaeolatitudinal biodiversity gradient through time across the Phanerozoic (including data from Europe and North America) for 1000 km grid cells. Slopes are estimated as the coefficient of per-cell, stage-level SQS diversity on absolute palaeolatitude for individual stages. Triangle data points meet quality criteria; circles do not. Red points are significant; grey points are not. A blue ring around a data point indicates a post-extinction interval. Horizontal blue shaded region highlights slopes close to zero.
Bottom right: Plot illustrating the relationships between per-cell, stage-level diversity estimates and palaeolatitude aggregated across the entire
Phanerozoic, globally. Data point colours indicate palaeolatitude zone: blue triangles, low; green squares, mid; purple circles high latitude. Solid black line is ordinary least squares regression line; dashed line traces the 95th quantile for each latitudinal band.

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Apr 9

Deadline to register for food/presenting is 10th April!!

EGU Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates".
Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2
Register:
forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf...
More info:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Mar 20

For those going to EGU....We are running an EGU 2025 Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates".
Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2

Sign up:
forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf...

More info:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Feb 4

We are really pleased to announce a 3-year postdoc at Bristol to work on tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the tuned model to make future climate predictions.
More details available from me, or here: tinyurl.com/mvx5wmet .
Closing date: 15th Feb

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Dann Mitchell @climatedann.bsky.social · Jan 15

Well done to my amazing colleagues at Bristol, who have made it into the @carbonbrief.org 10 most talked about climate papers for the second year running. Good work @climatesamwell.bsky.social and Paul Valdes! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief

Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Jan 6

Hi all, just forwarding this in 2025 as the deadline is 8th January...also, the link has changed:
noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...

Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Jan 6

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Just sending this postdoc job advert out again in 2025! The deadline to apply is 15th January. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y

Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Dec 20

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here:
tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y
@drsturobinson.bsky.social

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Dec 20

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"A unified approach to multiple timescale climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Dec 20

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here:
tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y
@drsturobinson.bsky.social

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