Wolfgang Kiessling
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Paleobiologist, Climate Scientist, Reefs through time
Da ist viel Wahres dran, leider. Ich mag Fossilien. Aber keine Anhänger fossiler Rohstoffe 🙄
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌
15 days ago
SO VIELE bei Demos "Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen"😍 Wirtschaftsministerin
#Reiche
@bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de
greift Energiewende an – doch quer durch die Gesellschaft formiert sich Widerstand. Für saubere Energie, für Unabhängigkeit, gegen fossile Lobbypolitik!
#Energiewende
Demo
#Köln
☀️🌱
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DER SPIEGEL
18 days ago
Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher bei den Auktionen für ein Strom-Backup benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL vermerkt.
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Katherina Reiches Ministerium bat EnBW um Argumente für Gaskraftwerke
Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher bei den Auktionen für ein Strom-Backup benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL vermerkt.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/katherina-reiches-ministerium-bat-enbw-um-argumente-fuer-gaskraftwerke-a-1ce69ada-8eff-444b-a7f9-4eaf4d6e5447?sara_ref=re-so-bluesky-rss#ref=rss
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Rachel Warnock
about 2 months ago
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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PaleoSynthesis
about 2 months ago
🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓
fau-earth-system-science.github.io
starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available
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Good insight into the uniqueness of geoscientific thinking.
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about 2 months ago
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Kerstin Neuhaus
about 2 months ago
Heute ist
#InternationalerFrauentag
#IWD💐
. Zeit, darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass zB. im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem Frauen (insbesondere in Führungspositionen) immer noch unterrepräsentiert sind. Spannend ist dabei auch der Blick auf die bundesfinanzierten großen Forschungseinrichtungen. 🧵 👩🔬🧪🔬
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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.
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The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02985-8
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PaleoSynthesis
4 months ago
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/
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)
4 months ago
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
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https://www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-grants-international-research-program-@paleosoc.bsky.social
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Niles Eldredge
4 months ago
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!!
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6 months ago
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...
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Session GBF3
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/session/55544
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net)
6 months ago
@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
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Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...
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Bundeskanzler Merz: Taten statt Blockaden auf der Klimakonferenz!
Die Welt blickt auf die kommenden Klimaverhandlungen in Belém. Dieser Gipfel wird den Kurs für die globalen Klimamaßnahmender nächsten Jahre bestimmen – in einer Zeit, in der die Klimakrise längst Rea...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/bundeskanzler-merz-taten-statt-blockaden-auf-der-klimakonferenz?bucket=20251105-waeb-hv-merz-taten-statt-blockaden-auf-der-klimakonferenz-a-n&source=bluesky&utm_campaign=20251105-waeb-hv-merz-taten-statt-blockaden-auf-der-klimakonferenz-a-n&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=bluesky&share=5a1884d7-0c09-4590-9bde-f32309ce95d3
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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
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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.
6 months ago
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Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit
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7 months ago
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Moriaki Yasuhara
7 months ago
Also press release here:
www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
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Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions
The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…
https://www.fau.eu/2025/09/news/palaeontologie-ein-kleines-fach-hat-grosse-fragen/
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘
7 months ago
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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John Alroy
9 months ago
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.
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Alessio Capobianco
8 months ago
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!
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International Fossil Coral and Reef Society
8 months ago
🚨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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Alisa Bokulich
8 months ago
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
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Martin Hundhausen
8 months ago
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.
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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
8 months ago
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…
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Der (fast) letzte Schritt zur Dekarbonisierung ist getan: Wärmepumpe ☑️ PV-Anlage ☑️ Solarthermie ☑️ E-Auto ☑️ Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.
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A still very worthwhile read. Charles Lyell made it possible that both these great thinkers appeared in the same issue of the journal.
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Ferwen
9 months ago
The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...
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The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba
During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 1…
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/the-legacy-of-elizabeth-vrba/
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Annika Joeres
9 months ago
Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:
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More than happy that this is finally out. Well done
@isaiah-e-smith.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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Artwork makes the heart work, especially when it is meaningful. This is Emiliana huxleyi, perhaps the most abundant eukaryotic organism on our planet!
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James Rae
10 months ago
🚨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
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Well deserved
@neilshubin.bsky.social
. Not all is lost for US science future.
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💥 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...
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Finger weg von der Photovoltaik!
Was genau plant die Bundesnetzagentur? Die Bundesnetzagentur stellt in einem offiziellen Diskussionspapier sechs Modelle zur Debatte, wie private Einspeiser künftig Netzentgelte zahlen sollen – also e...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/finger-weg-von-der-photovoltaik?bucket=20250707-wae-hv-finger-weg-von-der-photovoltaik-2&source=bluesky-share-button&utm_campaign=20250707-wae-hv-finger-weg-von-der-photovoltaik-2&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=bluesky&share=7bc5699b-21c0-4021-b4c5-8cc4cacab517
10 months ago
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌
over 1 year ago
"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
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Klimaforscher: "Wir könnten uns eine viel bessere Zukunft sichern"
Cali, Baku, Busan: Zuletzt reihte sich eine Umweltkonferenz an die nächste. Was bleibt aus den Klima-Bemühungen aus diesem Jahr? Nicht viel, sagt Forscher Hans-Otto Pörtner. Aber er hat noch Hoffnung ...
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/rueckblick-klima-2024-100.html
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)
10 months ago
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/...
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Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr6700
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Trevor A. Branch
10 months ago
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.
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Das ist ja mal eine gute Nachricht. Wir brauchen dringend eine effektive Forschungsdateninfrastruktur. Gerne auch international, aber first things first
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A great loss to paleontology. Bambach‘s work was in many ways foundational.
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10 months ago
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PaleoSynthesis
10 months ago
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...
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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...
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Job Advertisement: Akademischer Rat / Akademische Rätin (A13) in Paleontology (f/m/d)
Section Paleontology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit…
https://www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/stellenausschreibung-akademischer-rat-akademische-raetin-a13-in-palaeontologie-m-w-d/
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IPC7
11 months ago
🎉 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
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Really looking forward to this event. Thanks
@mrentetzi.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Wow!
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11 months ago
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Ja, ohne Geowissenschaften geht es nicht.
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PaleoSynthesis
about 1 year ago
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....
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Matthias C. Rillig
11 months ago
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4880?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35361117&et_cid=5628913
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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...
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(S+) Ökostrom im Überfluss: Das Energiewende-Wunder von Uruguay
Uruguay hat seine Stromproduktion in wenigen Jahren fast vollständig auf erneuerbare Energien umgestellt – trotz begrenzter Mittel. Der Weg, den der südamerikanische Staat dabei gegangen ist, sucht we...
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/uruguay-das-energiewende-wunder-a-a818ebbe-b4d5-46ba-bd1d-93c7d98003ce?giftToken=5ab5bac9-eff2-4fa5-a14c-cd6e543c0b11
12 months ago
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So cool. Need to have a BioDeepTime 2.0, too
@paleosynth.bsky.social
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