The final experimental paper I helped bring together from the labours of Sandra Götze and Charlotte Eymann is out! This series compares the physiologies of the king scallop and the European oyster under multiple climate change stressors 🦪🥵 doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Nicholls, A.L., Wignall, P.B., Song, H. et al. The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. npj biodivers 5, 3 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Since its two-week extension, next Wednesday evening is the new abstract submission deadline for the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 🤩 Come join our session! (link below)

We're too easily swayed by instant gratification, compromising the planet's health. Our food supply depends on the ecosystems we are rapidly destroying. A heartfelt plea from Cllr Glyn Evans, on COP30 Biodiversity day. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

📊 New evidence: Addressing multiple indirect drivers of biodiversity loss leads to better socioeconomic outcomes. Integrated approaches are key for a just and sustainable future. IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

Cool paper on rate-time scaling: it’s not just an artifact! We need to re-think underlying evolutionary processes generating (fossil) phenotypic changes! By @vildebruhn.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social

A little less than a week to submit abstracts for the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! Join our session on #MarineBiodiversity science across time and disciplines can help achieve the #30x30 protection goal! 🐳🐙🐟🦈 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...

Our next extraordinary biologist is Hans-Otto Pörtner, a prolific @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, who also presented as a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists

Accepted (yay!) this #Halloween, learn how the deadly trio weaken scallops tolerance to #ClimateChange with our new experimental study🦪☀️⏱️☠️ @jexpbiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?

Ocean acidity has increased by ~30% over pre-Industrial levels due to the uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Pteropods, “sea butterflies,” are planktonic snails that are sensitive to these changes. Scientists have found that their shells are getting thinner & are dissolving, especially at high latitudes.

Hello out there! A little reminder about our workshop call… No ideas of your own? Maybe you know a colleague you'd like to throw into the ring. So feel free to spread the word and the link: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-work...!

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)

New! Climatic forcing of the Southern Ocean deep-sea ecosystem. Featured as cover in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Coming to WBF2026 in Davos? Join our session on supporting GBF goals using marine biodiversity across time and disciplines! 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... @worldbioforum.bsky.social

Hugely proud of @sgavirneni.bsky.social for his first paper published last week in Paleobiology. With Linda Ivany, we linked marine #bivalve #extinction risk to adult resting metabolic rate (both whole-body total and mass-specific) over the past 300 million years... [1/5] doi.org/10.1017/pab....

happy to share some freshly published work in Paleobiology with Daniel Phillipi and Linda Ivany (not on bluesky): doi.org/10.1017/pab.... @paleodb.bsky.social paper #493

Sea temperatures around the UK & Ireland are up to 4°C above normal - April & May set 45-year records This is another marine heatwave, driven by climate change Oceans are sounding the alarm @BBC, please use more climate impactful images…it’s not about fun at the beach www.bbc.com/news/article...

Early bird registration ends soon for this awesome conference combination!

Another #PhD scholarship available! 🦪🌊 part of a fantastic new oyster restoration project!

The SCION Earth Evolution Model is turning 4 years old this spring. We have celebrated by extending the framework back to ~1 Ga before present We find some agreement with broad environmental trends from the rock record, but there is still plenty to learn! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I've been following the insect decline. I've written about it. And still. This line made me sick to my stomach: In 20 years, the fleeting time it takes for a human baby to grow into a young adult, the country has lost 22 percent of its butterflies, researchers found www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨ For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website: www.palass.org/meetings-eve... #conference #student #uk

Climate change after the last glacial maximum led to a long-lasting reshuffling of zoo- and phytoplankton assemblages, very cool paper by Tonke Strack shows. 🧪 @marumunibremen.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.bsky.social #biodiversity #OceanFloor onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉 We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access. We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.

Looking at regional warming and marine bivalves, brachiopods, and gastropods in the early Jurassic, Reddin et al. find that species with cooler temperature preferences than local conditions were more likely to become extirpated or extinct. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

You don't want to tell your children that all you did during this time was post. You should be podcasting too

The first paper is out from my collaborative crash-course back into marine ecophysiology, comparing the mechanisms by which oyster O. edulis tolerates warming at two different rates (no bats involved) @jexpbiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Convenient combination of two awesome meetings in conservation paleobiology 🤩

Looking for a postdoc for 2026? Interested in the interfaces between sedimentology and geochemistry? Biology and the seafloor? Climate change at sea? Come join my new group! I'm looking for candidates to apply with us for MSC fellowships on a range of topics. 🧪⚒️🌊

Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th

Fun fact - File under no free lunch - #Tiktok annual carbon footprint is estimated to be about 50 million metric tons of CO2, which is more than Greece emits in a year. Average user is equal to driving an extra 123 miles a year www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Great ressources for anyone doing spatial data with with R 🚀 🌈 👉 rspatialdata.github.io thx @paulamoraga.bsky.social ✨ 🧪🌐

Nice write up including our recent bluefin #tuna #otolith metabolic rate and climate work on the BBC (thanks Isabelle Gerretson) www.bbc.com/future/artic... LInk to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦑 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

#ProgPal25 will take place in #Edinburgh! It will be the first ProgPal held in Scotland!

#PalAss24 just ended, we hope that alla delegates enjoyed the conference! #PalAss25 will take place in Portsmouth! See you there

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 ! 🙂 doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Newsletter out now: Find out about the contribution of individual species to the stability of ecosystems, our look back at the biodiversity COP, and the role of a modern scientist & the question of whether or not the ivory tower nowadays is a place to be: 241806.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/15774382 🦑

We've put together a CRAN Task View for the palaeontological community - a curated list of R packages relevant for palaeontological research 📦🦕. You can install the CRAN Task View via: ctv::install.views("Paleontology") Docs: cran.r-project.org/web/views/Pa... #Paleontology #Rstats #Palaeoverse

Hiya @thepalass.bsky.social meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.

Poster on predicting extinction risk based on palaeogeography through the Phanerozoic by Lila Blake et al. - work completed during Lila's time working with @eesaupe.bsky.social #PalAss24

...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!

Watch back to #GO2NE Webinar 27 here 👉 bit.ly/48BnLog Join Martine Røysted Solås, Carl Reddin, and moderator Natalya Gallo on the topics below 📽 Previous Webinars bit.ly/3ZxtUPE @aoschlies.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social, @kisensee.bsky.social #ocean #deoxygenation

The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! ✨ Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related 🌍🐚 Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! 🦕📊 paleobiodb.org