A huge shout-out to Elizabeth M. Dowding (@the.fairest.fowl) for creating this groundbreaking article, and congratulations on its publication in Nature Eco & Evo. Great work and absolutely worth reading: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Monday night, continuous snowfall ❄️ started to set in... nearly 35 cm compacted over the day. A day for home office followed by a nice walk! Today, the weather has calmed down, and likely most of us have sore muscles from shovelling snow 😅

🎓 IPC7 Travel Grants – Call for Applications The IPC7 organisers offers five Travel Grants to support delegates wishing to attend the IPC7. Each grant covers: ✈️ Return economy airfare 🏨 Accommodation (University residence) 🎟️ Registration fee 🍽️ Conference dinner

First workshop decision 2026! ConSensIS (Rachel Racicot, Senckenberg; Travis Park, Monash) made it. The CONservation SENSory paleobiology International Scientific network aims to establish a conservation sensory paleobiology community for the very first time. Congratulations!

PaleoSynthesis is running for >6 years. Elizabeth M. Dowding has been on board almost from the start. She's not only been committed to PaleoSynthesis. As a person, she's been an important & dedicated part of the Paleontological Institute. All the best @thefairestfowl.bsky.social and stay connected!

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/

🎄 Season’s greetings 🎄 2025 is coming to an end and the PaleoSynthesis team would like to thank for your contributions to the project. We hope that you stick with us and continue to support PaleoSynthesis. 🎅🏽 Happy Holidays 🎅🏽 and may 🎇 2026 🎆 be a good one for all of you!

On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-scho...

We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field! This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.

#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.

Hello out there! A little reminder about our workshop call… No ideas of your own? Maybe you know a colleague you'd like to throw into the ring. So feel free to spread the word and the link: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-work...!

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)

Our homepage moved onto a new server, this also means that the design ist new. However, the domain stays same: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de It might need some cosmetics but we are here for you 😊 If you encounter any issues please get in contact!

Dear followers, our server is experiencing some issues. As a result, the website may be unavailable. If you would like information about the workshop, please email [email protected].

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! Deadline is December 15, 2025. Visit the website with the necessary information before preparing a proposal. Questions? Contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics) Info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

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!

After a short break following the summer school, the program continues. Next week, the DeepIL (www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/de...) workshop will take place. Participants will mainly be scientists based in Germany. However, DeepIL also receives support from external research institutions.

🚨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...

And just like that, they're over... Three weeks of summer school have flown by. Last lunch before everyone goes their separate ways. A BIG thank you to the entire team involved, all the lecturers, and the wonderful students! Stay motivated and positive!

What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

As for all the previous workshops we had an icon designed. DeepIL (www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/de...) will be the upcoming workshop in fall and the topic is “Deep-Time Impacts of Life on the Earth System”. And today we are happy to present the latest icon representing this workshop.

Group photo of this years Summer School students and some of the lecturers. All look still pretty fresh and motivated. It's halftime, lets see how it goes next!

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

Today is the kick-off of our summer school 2025. 12 smart and motivated students from all over the globe attend the course and hopefully take back home lots of knowledge and skills.

👋 Students welcome! Apply now for the 🎓 Bachelor’s and the Master’s degree programs 🎓 at GeoZentrum Nordbayern including Paleo! www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/07/11/a...

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...

The deadline for the workshop call has expired. We will now sit down as a team and make a decision. We will inform you about the result as soon as possible! www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/in...

Nature paper finds that 2/3rds of warming since 1990 is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, with 1/5th caused by top 1%, and 8% of attributable to top 0.1%. A reminder that policy must address the outsized impact of the world's wealthiest. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

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!

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 ;))

AGELESS workshop successfully done... IRATE (www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/ir...) workshop to come! Beginning on Monday the topic is "to be or not to be? All about taphonomy!"

Today's the day! With members from the previous BioDeepTime workshops, today AGELESS (go.fau.de/1bhbe) starts with a series of lectures followed by the workshop with individual breakout groups.

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...

Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk

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....

Scientists of the world. Please help NOAA!

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...

Climatic change and climatic intervention. Both could affect deep sea ecosystem negatively. We need careful decision. Paleo record tells. Featured as cover in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol... @paleosynth.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

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...

Recent developments have led us to immediately resign from X where science is no longer supported and fake news and trolls abound. We hope to meet all our followers here or on Insta, FB or our WhatsApp channel.

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...!

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...

Dear followers! We hope you had a great holiday season and all had a good start into the new year! All the best for 2025 with great research results for everyone! (image mod.: pngtree.com)

After an eventful year, 2024 is now coming to an end. Have a good start into the new year🪅 We look forward to your continued support of PaleoSynthesis. 🦖 Dinormous Happy Holidays 🦕!

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

With the PRIME workshop a decision was made to support a workshop focussing on extinctions and their roles in evolution. Now also PRIME has its own unique icon again designed by the brilliant FAU Brand Office.