🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

We are seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate with analytical skills and knowledge of biodiversity to plan and lead research on how biodiversity change is unfolding in the Anthropocene. Find out more and apply by 10 August jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

30 years in the making! Using multisite pollen data we show how Afromontane ecosystems responded to climate change and human interaction over the last 50,000 years onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PB5HDV... @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world. Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Free to download, free to use! #BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

New initiative brings together @york.ac.uk researchers & local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes. Working with landowners & NGOs they'll explore the past & future of landscapes in the @northyorkmoors.org.uk & @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Summer (paid) internship opportunity with two great colleagues here at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, investigating avian (species, phylo. and functional) diversity throughout the Mesozoic. Please share! 🌏 🧪 york.joinhandshake.co.uk/jobs/172817/...

Spot an animal on your way to work or school? See an insect on a plant near your home? Take a photo & upload it to iNaturalist to contribute to observations of biodiversity during the York City Nature Challenge from 25-28 April. Find out more: yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc/how-...

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

Just a few days left (Feb 2nd!) to apply for this fully funded, interdisciplinary PhD with Lindsey Gilson, Brennen Fagan and me at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social looking at past-present-future variation in savanna carbon stocks! Please do share 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with me and some great people at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York, UK! Please share! 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research #LCAB aims to develop an improved understanding of biodiversity gains, as well as losses, and inform and influence how society responds to these changes. Find out more about our work and meet our researchers: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Does anyone know whether there is such a thing as an open access Holocene XRF geochem database?

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How has biodiversity changed since the last ice age? Have humans had any effect on these changes? And what (if anything) does this mean for conservation? theconversation.com/the-first-fa...

New from me for Live Science - ancient Argentinians ate enormous armadillos. 🏺🧪

New paper out looking at human - biodiversity relationships over the last ~12,000 years across the Earth. Biodiversity increases in many locations associated with raised human landscape modification over pre-history! Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...