Last day of the DeepIL workshop. So far a time full of inspiration, ideas, and a great exchange between colleagues from different disciplines and with different backgrounds. Intense but inspiring!

🚨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...

Dive into the mysteries Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems hold! Join @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social as she talks about MCEs including the tools being used to study them in the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean. When: 5 Aug 1pm-2pm BST Sign up for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mesophotic... #Webinar 🦑

BioDeeptime has made it into Science! "Climate is changing fast—and forests are 200 years behind". A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and modern data reveals this dramatic lag—and its consequences."(from ScienceDaily) - article: DOI: 10.1126/science.adr6700 CONGRATULATIONS to the authors.

Already announcing so you get to gather some ideas for your own workshop! Read more: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

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...

Are you #geoscience #teacher in higher education? Apply for EGU 2025 teaching Grant and get up to €750 for your teaching #materials. Submission can cover any geoscience topic, including laboratory or fieldwork. 📆 Application deadline: 10 July 2025 🔗 egu.eu/8M1N74 📷: Angel Ling on imaggeo.egu.eu

🦕🐚"Prediction and Identification of Mass Extinctions" workshop has ended after many fruitful discussions. ⚒️🦤Watch this space for the outcome 😎 www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr... @bethanyjallen.bsky.social @danijeladim.bsky.social @thefairestfowl.bsky.social

After a week of hard work and discussions the PRIME workshops ends today in the late afternoon. Fruitful discussions and breakout groups made good progress and we are looking forward to the outcomes to be published.

Let's go! Today marks the start of the 5-day PRIME (www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...) workshop led by Bethany Allen (Potsdam) and Baran Karapunar (Leeds). .... let's discuss mass extinction!

A fantastic and productive week creating new resources for the next generation of experimental taphonomists! Thanks to @orlabe.bsky.social for driving this forward with me and @paleosynth.bsky.social for hosting us!

Last day of the IRATE workshop in Erlangen. See the happy faces! Looks like everybody had a good time and hopefully fruitful discussions... can't wait to see the outcomes published ^^ (no pressure at all ;))

A nice little reminder of our proposal call for workshops! You have until May 18th... have a look here: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/in...

⚠️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

Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We are opening the first call in 2025 for workshop proposals! This time - we extended - and you have three months to submit your idea. Further information is provided here: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/in...

Or: "Ecologists discover palaeontology (and historicity of biology) 200 years after Cuvier" nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Remember my words: this is just a tip of the iceberg of rebuilding of the ecological theory through its integration with palaeontology 🧪 #Macroecology

🚨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.

Over 2.5 billion years ago, trillions of tiny Cyanobacteria spent hundreds of millions of years creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth. Take a deep breath. How are you using your oxygen today? Be present. Give freely. Care for others. Make your ancient microbial cousins proud. Exhale. Repeat.

More emotional support and positive feedback "Harsh criticism and unreasonable expectations worsen PhD students’ mental health" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

Superb post-doc opportunity 👇Read the thread and get your applications in!

Only two weeks until the Summer School application deadline and right after that our workshop call! Check back to make sure you don't miss it. www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

🚨NEW PAPER!🚨 We have a new paper out in @bdj.pensoft.net on "Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt" with Theres Koch, Angelina Ivkić, et al doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

As science does not have a place in the X world, we will soon be leaving. We hope to meet you here and on our other social media: FB (paleosynthesis) and Insta (paleosynthesisproject) and - fingers crossed that it works well - also on our newly created WhatsApp channel: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...!

These are fantastic small grants for Early Career Researchers working on Antarctic Science projects. Supervisors - please point your students towards them. A huge range of projects and people have been funded over the years.

📢 Do not miss the opportunity to attend this awesome conference connecting palaeontologists , ecologistst, conservation palaeobiologists, in short, all the cool people. Abstract and early bird registration deadlines are approaching so don’t hesitate for too long!

🗣️ 83% of respondents believe scientists should communicate about science with the public. 📣 52% believe scientists should be more involved in policymaking.

General call for postdocs with diverse interests: write your own proposal and find your host/supervision team in Oslo! www.uio.no/dscience/eng... I am on two of them (one in Geoscience and the other in Bioscience)

One more month! Apply for a place at the Analytical Paleobiology Summer School. Financial support is possible: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

oops! シ not so brilliant after all...since some colleagues thought the calendar pages were bibles, we'll use the stratigraphic colors to match the mass extinction... so here is the improved version of the icon hopefully now without misunderstandings

So excited to see this paper finally published! 🥳 This was the main focus of my PhD and demonstrates the application of model adequacy for models of morphological evolution. 1/n academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

PalAss24 is over and was a complete success. We are very proud that PaleoSynthesis was part of this event and that Summer School students and Workshop Pi's participated and presented. Thanks to everyone who attended and gave us the opportunity to further expand our network. #palass

A massive thank you to all of our volunteers at this year's @thepalass.bsky.social #PalAss24. It's been a time! We hope you have all enjoyed Erlangen - we have loved having you and hearing about the amazing palaeo-research happening from all over the world!

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....

🚨New Diamond 💎 Open Access Journal in Paleontology 🦴🐚!🚨 Send us your manuscripts 📜 and publish fully open access 🔓 entirely for free! #openacess #paleontology #free #palaeontology #diamond #open

Dear all, it is almost time for our annual meeting in #Erlangen, Germany. Here the program: palass.org/meetings-eve... The official conference hashtag is #PalAss24 See you there! #FossilFriday

Are you interested in some analytical training in paleobiology and a grad student? Then apply for a place in the Summer School 2025! The call is open as of today. More info can be found here: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/ap...

Here’s a starter pack for early career palaeontologists. Let me know if I’ve missed you, and I’ll create a second! go.bsky.app/EGhaGWk

Here is a second Coral Reef Science starter pack! Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/QSafBeL

Forgot the link go.bsky.app/27iKQ4H

Introducing the incredible Dr. Laura Mulvey @lauramulvey.bsky.social who just defended her PhD. Her work covered morpho models, model adequacy, FBD models and co-phylogenetics. Congratulations on a smashing defence ✨🥳 Mega proud of my first PhD student at FAU 🥲 Next stop: London! (post doc at QMU) 👩‍💻

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Bluesky’s growth has exploded as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads. The social media site's 20 full-time employees have been working around the clock to deal with the issues that come with hyper-growth.

I'm hiring a coordinator for our #mesophotic Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) program! This exciting new project will generate unprecedented amounts of information about the biodiversity of deep reefs in the Pacific. Spread the word! us242.dayforcehcm.co...

With PRIME, we have found the next workshop for PaleoSynthesis. The application from Baran Karapunar (Leeds) and Bethany Allen (Zurich) was seen as having the greatest potential. We congratulate them on their successful application and look forward to working with them.

Hello folks! I currently have two PhDs advertised: with Andrea Manica investigating the eco-evolutionary dynamics of Ediacaran early animal communities www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

This initiative is to support paleontologists worldwide with fully funded workshops and summer schools. Please check out.

Welcome to our new social media account. From today we will also provide you with the latest information here. 😃