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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 6h

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! Deadline is December 15, 2025. Visit the website with the necessary information before preparing a proposal. Questions? Contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics) Info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be presenting a poster at USRSE'25 next week and a talk at GSA later in October, both about paleopal and its development! Come check it out!

#USRSE25 #GSAConnects2025

Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 4d

@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal!

It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.

news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...

Open Source, Open Science: New App Leads Data Reproducibility

Open-source app "Paleopal" facilitates replication and sharing of information among researchers using data science tools to create workflows.

news.syr.edu

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 6d

Same thing goes for job applications! I recently read a job app for a paid intern position in my office where the applicant claimed they had already developed the entirety of a software package that matched the exact software package we had described in the job ad. What a waste of my time 🫩

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 6d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 6d

100% All Achievements

xkcd.com/3148/

Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.

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CURIOSS @curiossorg.bsky.social · 7d

Our September Deep Dive with Daniel Shown of @slu-official.bsky.social is a must watch❗

Open Source with SLU's Opening Skills & Solutions program has demonstrated success with $500K+ in development value delivered and 80+ professionals trained annually.

📺https://bit.ly/4o3Ox0Z

#AcademicOSPO #OSS

Slide Title for September CURIOSS Deep Dive: Opening Skills & Solutions - Experiential leaning at Saint Louis University

Speaker: Daniel Shown, Open Source with SLU

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 8d

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 9d

How to write an NSF GRFP personal statement.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-to-wri...

How to write an NSF GRFP personal statement

The personal statement can make or break your application.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 8d

With more to come!
bsky.app/profile/pala...

The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 8d

🚨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 · 11d

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

Lectures

palaeoverse.org

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 8d

🚨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-...

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 12d

What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 12d

If you missed this fantastic talk from Drs Mongiardino Koch and Garwood yesterday, you can now catch up on the recording (and for our other previous talks) on our website! #FossilFriday

palaeoverse.org/lectures

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 12d

🚀 NEXT WEEK! Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant by Oct 1, 2025. Grants fund projects that strengthen the #rstats ecosystem.

Example: volcalc — streamlining chemical volatility research - r-consortium.org/posts/unlock...

Details + apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

#opensource

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Peter Roopnarine @peterroopnarine.bsky.social · 14d

Our new TREE paper is out! "‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time."
"Over ~3.5 billion years our planet has become increasingly bioengineered...". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...