📣 10 days left to register for our workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology and Phylogenetics Questions? Reach out to any of the organisers: @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @niklashohmann.bsky.social More information and registration 👉 www.lorentzcenter.nl/site/index.p...

This will impact also paleobiology in near future -- isotopic tools for the reconstruction of the properties of food webs. t.co/6Ttw6hToRg 🧪 ⚒️ #Ecology #Paleobio #Geology

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #protistsonsky

Mechanisms of Late Ordovician and Late Devonian ME: "These transient P surges align with biodiversity loss, widespread anoxia, and seawater temperature declines, suggesting a link between P flux, ocean anoxia, and global climate shifts," www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

Terrestriality as an exaptation? "aquatic member of this stem lineage and demonstrates that the loss of exopods which results in uniramous limbs pre-dated the common ancestor of the amphibious euthycarcinoids and terrestrial myriapods" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio

A #Bretskyan_hierarchy approach in explaining the terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Eastern Asia. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, insects and plants -- all of them were affected and their evolution controlled by tectonics. t.co/mB18Njihj3 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology

“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Damn these archeologists are good at finding dinosaurs! Leaving nothing for paleontologists even in China.

Great talk by Benjamin Bomfleur who received the Jean Baptiste Lamarck award from EGU this year. The extinct world of green Antarctica is just wonderful. 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology #Botany

Looking for an international earth sci or palaeo conference outside the US in 2028? Consider IGC 2028 in Calgary. We're soliciting proposals for vertebrate palaeontology sessions....get in touch with us if you have some great ideas!

Three great nonlinear geophysicists and winners of the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal: Shaun Lovejoy (2019) Daniel Schertzer (2015) Anastasios Tsonis (2026) Also Anastasios presents his medal lecture "On the Origins of Randomness" at EGU26. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geophysics #Geology

Interesting Alfred Wegener Medal talk by Thomas Stocker at EGU26. He presented an Odyssey of explaining Last Glacial millennial scale Dansgaard–Oeschger Events, as it turns out the dynamical systems simulations shown how they can self-sustain themselves at certain conditions. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

#RavenStolenArt Текели-ли

The real shark-tooth "lizard" — Tameryraptor markgrafi 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

Interesting study exploring limiting effects of toxic compounds on the macroevolution of animals. In evolution, you need to wait for the mergence of suitable conditions. Sleeping beauty of macroevolution. academic.oup.com/nsr/article/... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

My first origami, folded with the lead by the master Yohei Sugimura from the Japan Geoscience Union 🙂

Great talk by Jason J. Head on the use of the ecomorphology of reptiles in reconstructing past climate. Most of us are familiar with mammal ecometrics. But maybe the age of reptile ecometrics is nearing? 😎 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology #Climate #Macroecology

Anybody at the EGU26?

On the alien landscapes of the early Paleozoic 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

Today is the constitution day of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie; Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie. Pan Tadeusz (1834) Adam Mickiewicz

I love this scale. Also read all the thread if you are interested in birds and the volution of the body size 😀 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

Had a great discussion on the problem of the de-extinction in the physics and natural sciences students conference "Open Readings 2026".

The definition of the Black Swan Event 🧪

New source of vertebrate morphology news and events is opening! 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

Important new paper! A fragmentary but super early fossil cetacean: introdocing Kalakocetus from the early Eocene of India. It's got molars that are intermediate between the herbivorous raoellids (cetacean sister taxa) and the carnivorous early whales like Pakicetus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Major transitions in AI as Existential threats. Who said that the theory is useless? 😃 "trends through the theory of major evolutionary transitions and suggest that eAI could mark a shift in the units and substrates of evolution—a possible “Life 2.0”" www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

Steven Frank explains how such things as natural selection or AI can be interpreted as reflections of the linear regression. Though he admits:"In both cases [ML and Natural Selection] causal attribution is hindered by nonlinear interactions"1/2 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

Had a wonderful meeting on the development of the hierarchical approaches in the evolutionary archeology, organized by Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social . Here is hierarchical evolution and network trio: Ilya Tëmkin, Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social and yours truly 🧪 ⚒️ #Archeology #Paleobio

"In contrast to fossil communities [of the last 10 Ma], modern Eurasian and African terrestrial large mammal faunas show strong geographic functional structure, which might reflect the selectivity of Late Pleistocene extinctions." nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Great to see that people started noticing our biodiversity dynamics analyses with Haar fluctuations and structure functions approach. Here is the exploration of fossil record biases on yielded correlations and scaling: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Neo-ichnofossil of modern aviną dinosaur (bird) feet imprints in the concrete floor of the Munich train station. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Important article on the practices of article writing, submission and troublesome reproducibility of the fossil vertebrate phylogenies. In my view, most see phylogenies as eternally provisionary and probabilistic pictures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Is there a survey which explores the shapes of disasters in real geographical space? I mean, asteroid will do the damage similar to a giant bomb -- a circular destruction trace. But for example, tornadoes leave sausages or noodles of destructions (below). #Bretskyan_hierarchy 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Interesting empirical analysis and the oceanographical paleobiogeochemical modeling study which revealed the instability and non-steady state behavior of the Earth system at the onset of Cambrian SPICE excursion and associated extinction event. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

If you are interested in macroevolution, macroecology, fossil record, stratigraphy and stuff, please consider applying for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) grant this year in my lab. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

Fibo-cacti 😀 🧪 #EvoBio #Math

Cool: "Package adapt 3 is available on CRAN and can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Ecology #Macroecology #Paleobio

The hierarchy of fundamental evolved motives. It essentially shows the sequence of the assembly of the conditional operators of complex social creatures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #EvoBio

Reminder that sloppy spaghetti code, like the kind produced by ai, would never be a good option for truly important tasks

Interesting. Modulation of microphysical environments by the plant biodiversity. At least at smaller scales, environment&biodiversity relations are bidirectional. 🧪 ⚒️ #Ecology #Geology #Botany

"These results highlight the key role of outgassing and deep Earth processes in influencing pCO2 variation and climate dynamics with implications for understanding historical climate variations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #Climate

Archaeopteryx lithographica - the modern reincarnation in Vilnius streets, and the original one from the Jurassic Solnhofen 😉 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Today we've had a pleassure to host on our department Julien Van Der Hoek (University of Manchester), who presented the talk: "Abiotic and biotic effects on predator-prey evolution throughout the Cenozoic: untangling correlations in carnivores and artiodactyls"

Wow, what a strange macro-microbe - Thiomargarita magnifica, cm scale bacteria which is far longer than most animals. Interesting case of things approaching boundaries of possible, given their body-plans. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 #EvoBio

A giant filter-feeding large whale-sized and baleen whale life-styled bony fish of the Jurassic period 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Please consider submitting your abstract to the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists conference, which will happen this summer in Vilnius! 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Interesting on-site and online lecture on the P-Tr mass extinction environments: "Pangea on Acid: Extreme Environments, Climate, and Life during Permo-Triassic Time - Public Lecture" www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/pange...

Chemostratigraphy of the mass extinction interval helps the untangling of the global crisis: "...redox- sensitive proxies, indicating that wildfire activity intensified in response to post- OAEs oxygen rise rather than triggering anoxia." www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Biblically Accurate Slabs

Happy International Geologist's Day! Now for real. Below are the Easter-most igneous rocks out there. The orbicular granite slabs near the Department of the Earth Sciences in Uppsala University. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology