Great news! Our session „07: Tropical ecosystems through time“ is accepted for #ECTE2026!

Calling all tropical paleoecologists and researchers—submit your abstract to our session now: gtoe2026-passau.de/call-for-abs...

The position will be based at JKU Linz (Austria), within the Institute for Applied Statistics. If you're interested, or know someone who might be, please feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected] for more details! 3/3

There's room for shaping the direction, and candidates with backgrounds in paleobiology, macroevolution, science outreach, or related fields are very welcome. Strong quantitative skills and a PhD in a relevant field are required.
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I’m looking to hire a postdoc (100%, 22 months, salary significantly above the standard postdoc in Austria or Germany). The position is set to begin on 1 June 2025.
The project explores how biases in the fossil record affect our ability to use past biodiversity data for modern conservation. 1/3

And by 'we', I mean an amazing team of scientists including @pimientoc.bsky.social, @kiessl.bsky.social, @jcsvenning.bsky.social, and @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social

Based on a systematic literature review, we show that individual climate-driven events and ecosystem perturbations cannot be fully understood without considering the broader climatic context in which these events occur. 2/2

Our latest publication in Cambridge Prisms: Extinction examines how climate legacies influence #extinction dynamics. Read more about our systematic review and its implications for predicting biodiversity loss here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/2

And in the midst of it all, my Marie-Curie proposal with Uni Vienna was accepted too. What a ride! 3/3

As if that weren’t enough, my Lift_C proposal at JKU (with the brilliant @erinmdillon.bsky.social as a collaborator) got funded and, after moving between countries with a pregnant wife and a toddler once again, I started that project in Austria today. 2/3

Career update: My postdoc chapter in Switzerland has closed—though I managed to secure funding for my own UZH postdoc, which I then declined for a new adventure: I've spent the last 7 months at FAU Erlangen, working on the AGELESS project (funded by BMBF). 1/3

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This one took some years in the making! Here, the closeness of a #jurassic species' temperature preference to its environmental temperature (=thermal bias) was a useful predictor of whether it moved in, remained, or moved out of a region, or went #extinct during #climatechange... rdcu.be/d8IfN

My talk on climate-driven extinctions in sharks and rays using causal inference has been rescheduled! Catch me at 4:45 PM in the Kleine Saal at #PalAss. Looking forward to diving into deep-time extinctions and modern threats—don’t miss it! 🌊🦈

New review led by @kiessl.bsky.social of the past and future of how we study ecological impacts of global warming in the fossil record, including pitfalls, and ways to improve our reporting! Come chat with us at #PalAss24 ! 🙂
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My supervisor learnt statistics by buying all the chocolate bars, entering the ingredients, weights, nutrients etc. in a spreadsheet, and calculating some very basic stats on it (e.g. PCA-clustering). He then went on to eat and grade them, and to build various models to predict the ‘best‘ bar.

Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...