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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 10d

🚨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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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 20d

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic.
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

IPC7 @ipc7.bsky.social · 20d

Symposia 🔍

Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature:

✨ Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the conveners: 👇

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 23d

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28d

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉
🔗 Registration link ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Jul 28

Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬

The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩

William Gearty presents some advanced topics when using GitHub

Lewis Jones discusses different approaches for dealing with missing data

Harriet Drage feeds back suggestions from the group, written on post-its, on the opportunities and difficulties of archiving data and code

A group picture of the workshop leaders and participants in front of a fresco at the University of Zurich

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!!

- wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️
- wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍
- filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏

Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind...

#rstats #iucn #redlist #api

IUCN Red List Client

IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

docs.ropensci.org

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Jun 6

The authors present the fossil record of this enigmatic animal, compare this to new material, and discuss evidence for a terrestrial lifestyle. The most complete fossils suggest this animal could be up to 50cm long!

#openscience #palaeontology #fossils
@openpalaeo.bsky.social

A drawing reconstruction of Arthropleura, an extinct millipede-like animal

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Jun 6

This week, Open Palaeontology published our first research article: a reassessment of the giant millipede-like Arthropleura by Lhéritier, Vallois and Durand! Thank you to the authors for being part of the open-access publishing revolution!
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...

Re-assessment of Arthropleura from the Moscovian of Northern France: new anatomical information and adaptations to terrestrial environments | Open Palaeontology

www.openpalaeo.org

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!

Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

A flyer for the Palaeoverse Lecture Series for Summer 2025
June 26th - Dr Katie Collins, Natural History Museum
“Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different”
July 31st - Summer break
August 28th - Amy Shipley, University of Leeds
“Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction”
September 25th - Dr Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, UC San Diego and Dr Russell Garwood, University of Manchester
“The Tree of Life and Death: What do fossil taxa contribute to morphological phylogenetics?”

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 27

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out!

We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social!

📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June!

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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

⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨
🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST
🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#webinar #June #palaeontology #career

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Apr 22

This is HILARIOUS and I love the latter painting series, I so want to steal this

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Apr 22

Don't miss a great opportunity—register for the Lecture Series organized by @palaeoverse.bsky.social
Registration link ⬇️
bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

#lecture #palaeontology #modelling

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌟Members Exclusive!🌟

Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers.

🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST)

Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · Mar 26

Here is a little video I made for @thepalass.bsky.social. Its aimed at GCSE students and ties into the national curriculum. Lots more planned, if you want to be involved, give me a shout.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...

Please share widely, like and subscribe!

Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form?

YouTube video by The Palaeontological Association

www.youtube.com

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Mar 21

So happy to share our new preprint on cleaning and sharing palaeobiological occurrence data! This was such a great paper to work on, with a fantastic team! 🌟

Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy #FossilFriday!

We’re excited to share our new preprint from the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology”, available now from EcoEvoRXiv: doi.org/10.32942/X2F...

With a bonus accompanying vignette!
tenrules.palaeoverse.org

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology

tenrules.palaeoverse.org

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · Mar 12

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 6

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

www.nature.com

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jan 17

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️30th January, 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST)

For this month’s lecture, we will be joined by Dr Ádám Kocsis, presenting “The ‘rgplates’ interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects”

Register here: t.co/nkPis8u8JK

A blue flyer showing the timing, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. Dr Ádám Kocsis, a bearded man, is shown standing in a black coat.

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · Dec 19

Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸

PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...

Lessons from the past: predicting the tropicalisation of marine communities | TREES DLA

Global climate change is warming temperate coastal waters, causing ecological disturbances and range shifts of marine organisms. Recently, hermatypic corals (reef-building corals) have expanded polewa...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · Dec 9

Have you ever thought to yourself 'huh, where did all these arthropod Pokémon come from??' Well, wonder no more!
Read my commitment to nerdosity and palaeontology in my article:
jgeekstudies.org/2024/08/24/e... 🦀🦂🐛🐝🪰🐞🕷️
#pokemon #videogames #palaeontology #PalAss2024

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