🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

Last Thursday @palaeoverse.bsky.social I shared some of our recent projects, exploring the application of phylogenetic methods and the exciting new wave of Bayesian diversification models. #paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?...

Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

Are you familiar with the @palaeoverse.bsky.social Lecture Series? Check out our YouTube Channel for lectures from community experts on method development and application in Palaeontology: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove... We will be announcing the next set of lectures in the New Year, stay tuned!

Join us later today! 👇

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

New paper alert! We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer: When did they experience major extinction events? Does age play a role in extinction selectivity? If so, does it change with extinction intensity? 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Attending the BES annual meeting? Come to our lunchtime workshop launching the new version of our better science guide on reproducible code! 🌍 🧪

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️18th December 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our last talk of 2025, given by @singerstone.bsky.social from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, on “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 🦬 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

We are excited to have been awarded a Large Grant by @softwaresaved.bsky.social! 🥳 This will help us future-proof our R packages and tools, and provide more training and mentoring for computational palaeontologists. Coming soon: job ads for two new team members! 👀 www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

We'll be hosting a joint Crossing the Palaeontological–Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium @ucl.ac.uk in London in August 2027, which aims to bridge spatial and temporal gradients between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Come and join us in 40 mins to hear from Dr Tyler! 🤩

📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN! - resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄 - geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛 - add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees 🪾 - get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤 rphylopic.palaeoverse.org #Rstats

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word! openpalaeo.org @openpalaeo.bsky.social

ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social

Some good representation from the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team at #2025svp! If you have any queries about what we do, come find us! 😊 @joeflansan.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social @piginatutu.bsky.social Some flyers still left at the @graphicssci.bsky.social booth too! 🎨

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️20th November 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Carrie Tyler from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 🎣 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

💡 Need support to attend your next palaeontology event? Apply for a PalAss Diversity Bursary! 🌍✨ 👉 palass.org/palaeontolog... 💷 Funding available: up to £250 GBP per individual bursary. 📝 What you’ll need: A short supporting statement A breakdown of your anticipated expenses [1/2]

Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me). www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/2]

🦕 Thinking about a career in Palaeosciences? 🌍 Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨ If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]

Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini. 🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Join us later today for Dr Hagen’s talk! An additional reminder, double-check the time if your clocks have recently changed (this will be at 4pm CET) 🕰️

🚨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...

Last week the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team published our new paper outlining steps for cleaning palaeobiological occurrence data. I'm really proud of this one; we even have a step-by-step run-through of data cleaning and an accompanying vignette. Thanks to the fantastic team! ⭐

I've had such a great time talking about some of my recent #opensource and #openscience work at #useR2025, #USRSE25, and #GSAConnects2025 over the last few months! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of my #useR2025 talk on YouTube. #reproducibility #paleontology #datascience #Rstats

Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daveyfwright.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

Reposting this today to give it some more attention. Working on this paper with other @palaeoverse.bsky.social folks was a great experience 😄. Hopefully this will serve as a great resource for paleontologists in the future! It even comes with R code that you can copy/paste: tenrules.palaeoverse.org

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lewisajones.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday

Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!

Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦂

🎉 This #FossilFriday we’re happy to share our new paper! 🎉 We take readers through 10 key steps for cleaning palaeontological data ready for computational analyses 🦕🧽 There’s also an R vignette showing you how to put these steps into practice! 💻 Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Currently looking for a postdoctoral position and interested in this kind of research? 👀 Dr Hagen currently has an open position in his new Computational Integrative Biodiversity group at Goethe University Frankfurt, for more details see: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Announcing 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 – an online seminar series all about ecological modelling & career insights, hosted by the @gfoesoc.bsky.social AKs Computational Ecology and YoMos 🦊 Find the topics and details as well as access to Zoom on our webpage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... Please share!

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/3]

🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏 Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪 🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

#SORTEE2025 Conference is over but you can (re)watch @ www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/... - Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social - Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini - Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐 Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀 Live the shrimp-le life: cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au #rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

We are honoured and excited to be running the 2025 @paleosoc.bsky.social Short Course at #GSAConnects2025 this Saturday! Come and join us (it’s 100% free) if you will be around! 😎

Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter! We hope to see you there, & safe travels! #PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

⚠️ Attention PalAss #members: Don't forget to apply for the Small Grants Scheme! 🤩✨ 🔶 Deadline: 1st of November 🥳 More information: ➡️https://palass.org/small-grants-scheme  🔶 Not a member yet? Please consider #joining PalAss!   ➡️https://palass.org/membership #grant #palass #members #joinus

The next lecture will officially be the 20th! 🎉 Don't miss out on the amazing line up for the upcoming #palaeoverse lecture series 📆 Huge thanks to all past and future presenters, none of this would be possible without your contributions 🙏 Past lectures: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove...

🚨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-...

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