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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 6d

The next lecture will officially be the 20th! 🎉

Don't miss out on the amazing line up for the upcoming #palaeoverse lecture series 📆

Huge thanks to all past and future presenters, none of this would be possible without your contributions 🙏

Past lectures: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove...

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 7d

What a terrific event! The organisers did a great job 😁

And oh look, it's me! 🫣

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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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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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 12d

Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪

Lectures

palaeoverse.org

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 16d

The shade! 🤣

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 16d

Don't miss this out! 🪸
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 19d

All things corals and reefs! Don't miss out on this fantastic Early Career Researcher event hosted by the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social

#coral #reef #palaeontology

International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Registration open!🚨

Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸

📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's so great to see this package (on CRAN since 2021) finally formally described in a journal! Here's to many more years of standardized, customizable, and reproducible geology data visualization!

And shout out to @richardstockey.bsky.social and @lewisajones.bsky.social for years of encouragement!

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The Perfect Specimen @perfect-specimen.bsky.social · 24d

Love venom? Check out NOXIOUS m.youtube.com/watch?v=6C67... And @joshlukedavis.com cheats with three specimens!

Natalie brings a very venomous golf ball with legs | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep9

YouTube video by Natural History Museum

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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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Bridget Wade @bridgetwade.bsky.social · Jul 27

Everything you want to know about Pulleniatina can be found in the paper out last week: Systematic taxonomy of Pulleniatina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 55: 245-275. DOI:10.61551/gsjfr.55.3.245 by Paul Pearson, Alessio Fabbrini and Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social‬
#IODP
#UCL
#NERC

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

If you are attending @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social and would like to hear more about the palaeoverse R package, come and speak to us at our poster today! We got the coolest spot in the museum 😎🦕

A poster describing the palaeoverse R package beneath a Diplodocus skeleton

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Dr. Sven N. Nielsen @snnielsen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · Jun 20

Come see me wrestle with the philosophical conundrum of what we measure and why and how, plus some stuff about geometry that hopefully would bewilder the teacher who kicked me out of high school math!

The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚

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

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jun 6

Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday

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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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

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Christopher Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social · May 30

Really happy to see this out! Also super grateful for Jeff bringing me on board; what started as a casual conversation over lunch in the NHM staff room has turned into some really interesting work and a great friendship. What more can you ask for?!

Read on for stuff on fossil record preservation! ⤵️

Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · May 30

Super happy to see this out! Ever wondered what regulates taphonomic quality in skeletal fossil records? New with @princessquatris.bsky.social , Tim Ewin, and Maddy Ford we identify the controls on preservational quality in Palaeozoic echinoids onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Taphonomic controls on a multi‐element marine skeletal fossil record

Animals with multi-element skeletons, including the vertebrates, echinoderms and arthropods, are some of the most biodiverse and ecologically important animal groups. Understanding the relative impac...

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 28

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 28

Vertebrate Palaeontology 🦕:

- Philip Mannion: Sauropods and crocodiles (www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...)

- Paul Upchurch: Vertebrate systematics and evolution (www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...)

Prof Philip Mannion

evolution & ecology, terrestrial vertebrates, ancient biodiversity, conservation palaeobiology

www.ucl.ac.uk

Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 28

Invertebrate Palaeontology 🪸:

- Moi: Corals, reefs, fossil record bias, palaeoverse (www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...)

- Stephen Pates: Origins and early evolution of animals, arthropod palaeoecology (profiles.ucl.ac.uk/100755-steph...)

Dr Lewis A. Jones

Palaeobiology, Macroecology, Corals, Climate, Fossil Record Bias, R programming

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 28

Micropalaeontology 🔬:

- Bridget Wade: Planktonic foraminifera, Cenozoic Climate Change (www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...)

- Paul Bown: Coccolithophores, calcareous nannofossils (www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...)

Prof Bridget Wade

Micropalaeontology, palaeoceanography, biostratigraphy, geochemistry, palaeoecology, evolution

www.ucl.ac.uk

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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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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · May 24

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · May 24

Pedro is a great researcher and an amazing person! What more could you ask for in a host? 😁

Pedro Godoy @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · May 24

If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) - Incoming/Outgoing

Everything you need to know about the PF call and application process. The call 2025 is open until 10 September.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · May 23

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning”

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

A flyer for the next lecture in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon laptop with a picture of Dr Hsiang smiling, wearing glasses with a checked top and white collar

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