New paper emerging from our Paleosynthesis project @paleosynth.bsky.social. In www.nature.com/articles/s41..., we highlight the value of databases to #paleontology and the importantce of sustained funding. Our finding are probably applicable to other science fields as well.

Grad students! Three more weeks to submit your Paleobiology Summer School application. Don’t forget! We need your application & the letter of support by your supervisor. Questions or do you need assistance? Get in contact and we are happy to help. More info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/apw-apply/

Apply for Sepkoski Grants $1000 USD if you are a paleontologist from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-gra... deadline March 1 @paleosoc.bsky.social

Wow—thanks @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for posting the entire issue of Paleobiology vol 51/4 2025 “Punctuated Equilibria at 50”—open access papers from the GSA 2022 50th anniversary symposium! A great community celebration!!

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...

@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them. 📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025

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

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

Was ist verkehrt an einem verplichtenden Gesellschaftsjahr? Es könnte so viele Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen. Ein bisschen mehr an einem Strang ziehen, kann uns in Deutschland sicher nicht schaden.

Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit

Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

🚨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...

I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them

Ich bin großer Fan der @fau.de Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me. The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

Der (fast) letzte Schritt zur Dekarbonisierung ist getan: Wärmepumpe ☑️ PV-Anlage ☑️ Solarthermie ☑️ E-Auto ☑️ Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.

Very true!

A still very worthwhile read. Charles Lyell made it possible that both these great thinkers appeared in the same issue of the journal.

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:

More than happy that this is finally out. Well done @isaiah-e-smith.bsky.social

Artwork makes the heart work, especially when it is meaningful. This is Emiliana huxleyi, perhaps the most abundant eukaryotic organism on our planet!

🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨 Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction rdcu.be/ev6XV 🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵

Well deserved @neilshubin.bsky.social. Not all is lost for US science future.

💥 Die Bundesnetzagentur erwägt Netzentgelte – auch für private Solarstrom-Einspeiser. Das bedeutet: Wer die Energiewende auf dem eigenen Dach vorantreibt, könnte künftig draufzahlen. ✍️ Jetzt WeAct-Petition unterzeichnen und die Energiewende schützen: weact.campact.de/petitions/fi...

"Wir werden Schäden bekommen, die wir uns heute nicht vorstellen können […] Das sind Dinge, die uns ins Handeln bringen werden. Aber es ist unnötig. Wir könnten vorsorgend voranschreiten und uns eine sehr viel bessere Zukunft sichern." - Hans Poertner AWI & IPCC WGII #Klimakrise #EndFossilFuels

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Das ist ja mal eine gute Nachricht. Wir brauchen dringend eine effektive Forschungsdateninfrastruktur. Gerne auch international, aber first things first

A great loss to paleontology. Bambach‘s work was in many ways foundational.

We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit in our research group, which focuses on Global Change Paleobiology. We seek a candidate with a strong background in palaeobiology aiming for an academic career in Paleontology. Interested!? www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...

Senior postdoc position in Paleontology @nat.fau.de. Starting date negotiable between 1st of Octorber and 15th of December 2025. www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...

🎉 Join us for the 7th International Paleontological Congress in Cape Town! 🇿🇦 Paleontologists from around the world will gather to share discoveries, ideas, and inspiration. Don't miss this unforgettable event! 🔗 ipc7.site #IPC7 #Paleontology

Really looking forward to this event. Thanks @mrentetzi.bsky.social

Wow!

Ja, ohne Geowissenschaften geht es nicht.

A PaleoNov workshop publication has recently been published: "A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Ecological Novelty" by Staples et al. Congratulations! .... and it's open access: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science @jdtonkin.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Man kann die Leistung von Uruguay natürlich kleinreden, aber es ist schon erstaunlich, was in Sachen Energiewende erreicht werden kann, wenn man beherzt herangeht. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

So cool. Need to have a BioDeepTime 2.0, too @paleosynth.bsky.social

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A preprint of a full paper explaining the CEGS distribution model and the way it estimates species richness is now available on EcoEvoRxiv: doi.org/10.32942/X2W... It draws comparisons with other models and estimators including the Poisson log normal, the log series + Fisher's alpha, and Chao 1.

Great news! Our review of the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinction was selected as 2024 Paper of the Year by the journal Cambridge Prisms Extinctions - check it out www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🦣🐪🐂🐘🐆🦏🐾❄️ #paleo #paleontology #mammals #ecology #Pleistocene #hominids

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

@co2ley.bsky.social was coordinating lead author of the Oceans Chapter of the @ipcc.bsky.social 6th Assessment Report. So sad to see how science is destroyed in the USA.

Please support FAU to be top listed: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Und das ist zum großen Teil Ihnen zu verdanken @mhundhausen.bsky.social 🙏