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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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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪

Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social
and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ....

doi.org

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

An R package for working with generalized additive models

Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

gavinsimpson.github.io

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate with analytical skills and knowledge of biodiversity to plan and lead research on how biodiversity change is unfolding in the Anthropocene.

Find out more and apply by 10 August
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · Jun 16

30 years in the making! Using multisite pollen data we show how Afromontane ecosystems responded to climate change and human interaction over the last 50,000 years
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PB5HDV...
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@biogeography.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
@york.ac.uk

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · May 15

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · May 12

New initiative brings together @york.ac.uk researchers & local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes. Working with landowners & NGOs they'll explore the past & future of landscapes in the @northyorkmoors.org.uk & @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Valuing Voices: A new collaboration for shared landscape futures

A new initiative aims to bring together University of York researchers with local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes.

www.york.ac.uk

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · May 6

Sadly this is only for UK applicants! Sorry!

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Apr 29

Summer (paid) internship opportunity with two great colleagues here at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, investigating avian (species, phylo. and functional) diversity throughout the Mesozoic.

Please share! 🌏 🧪

york.joinhandshake.co.uk/jobs/172817/...

YCEDE Research Assistant: Department of Biology & Leverhulme Centre, University of York | Handshake

£1260-1260 - Full-Time

york.joinhandshake.co.uk

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spot an animal on your way to work or school? See an insect on a plant near your home? Take a photo & upload it to iNaturalist to contribute to observations of biodiversity during the York City Nature Challenge from 25-28 April.

Find out more: yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc/how-...

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Jan 30

Just a few days left (Feb 2nd!) to apply for this fully funded, interdisciplinary PhD with Lindsey Gilson, Brennen Fagan and me at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social looking at past-present-future variation in savanna carbon stocks!

Please do share 🌏 🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...

PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...

www.findaphd.com

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jan 15

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

Lynx in Scotland: why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

theconversation.com

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Dec 5

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with me and some great people at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York, UK!

Please share! 🌏 🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...

PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...

www.findaphd.com

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · Nov 28

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨

I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!

Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Nov 28

Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research #LCAB aims to develop an improved understanding of biodiversity gains, as well as losses, and inform and influence how society responds to these changes.

Find out more about our work and meet our researchers: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 29

have you or any of your colleagues looked at how changes in pollen diversity over this time scale relates to the changes visible in your maps? could be a cool to see if they provide similar conclusions

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 18

thank you!

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Jonathan D. Gordon

‪Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York‬ - ‪Biodiversity change‬ - ‪palaeoecology‬ - ‪archaeology‬

scholar.google.com

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 18

Does anyone know whether there is such a thing as an open access Holocene XRF geochem database?

Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'd love to be added to this too, please!

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 12

me too please!

Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 12

me too please!

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 7

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...

PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...

www.findaphd.com

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Nov 7

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...

PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...

www.findaphd.com

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Jul 26

How has biodiversity changed since the last ice age? Have humans had any effect on these changes? And what (if anything) does this mean for conservation?

theconversation.com/the-first-fa...

The first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse – our research could have lessons for rewilding today

Scientists analysed thousands of years of pollen data and made a surprising discovery.

theconversation.com

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