🚨 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?...

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!

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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!

📌 Save the Date: UN Open Source Week 2026 takes place 22–26 June 2026. Express Your Interest in Attending: forms.office.com/e/7Zf9dGvjZr Stay tuned for more. #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource #DigitalCooperation

Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804

The Foundation has awarded a grant to the Open Source Program Office at @syracuseu.bsky.social to help it become a permanent part of the university, bridging academic research and open-source software development. news.syr.edu/2025/12/03/o...

🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund will open on Wed 28 Jan 2026. This round will accept applications for grants up to £150k and a duration of up to 12 months. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-ro...

🚨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-...

The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f... Congratulations to the project team!

Very proud of the work that the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team has done up until now and very excited for what's to come over the next few years! Watch this space! #rstats #palaeontology #paleontology

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...

I put together two roundups from posit::conf(2025): • Shiny talks + full workshop materials shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/c... • Quarto talks playlist and summaries quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.3.1 is now on #CRAN: - pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️ - fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩 - pattern code/name dictionary 📖 - new logo! ✨ Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

🎉@curioss has two new members! A warm welcome to Leigh Phan of @uclalibrary.bsky.social who is also working with the #UCLA #OSPO. We’re also thrilled that @k8hert.bsky.social of @biohub.org has joined the community. We look forward to learning more about your work! #AcademicOSPO #OpenScience

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

*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

📢 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

🚨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-...

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...

Sounds like a pretty cool project* studying the coevolution of the geosphere 🌍 and biosphere 🐚! I've already got a PhD, but if you're looking for a funded opportunity to get one for yourself, think about applying! *@lewisajones.bsky.social is pretty cool, too. #paleontology #academia #phdchat

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) 🕰️

Loosing the PRI would devastate US science. Any level donation, spreading the word helps. #FossilFriday #SaveScience priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...

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! ⭐

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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

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

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-...

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!

🎉 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...

#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! 😎

Super excited for GSA this week! I am especially hyped to teach members of @paleosoc.bsky.social some open science best practices 🔓, help folks with the data at the GSA Data Help Desk 📓, and see lots of great talks about comp paleo 🦴 and geoinformatics 🌐! #GSAConnects

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

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...

@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal! It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/. news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...

Same thing goes for job applications! I recently read a job app for a paid intern position in my office where the applicant claimed they had already developed the entirety of a software package that matched the exact software package we had described in the job ad. What a waste of my time 🫩

100% All Achievements xkcd.com/3148/

Our September Deep Dive with Daniel Shown of @slu-official.bsky.social is a must watch❗ Open Source with SLU's Opening Skills & Solutions program has demonstrated success with $500K+ in development value delivered and 80+ professionals trained annually. 📺https://bit.ly/4o3Ox0Z #AcademicOSPO #OSS

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!

How to write an NSF GRFP personal statement. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-to-wri...

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