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 🧪

🚨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-...

What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you missed this fantastic talk from Drs Mongiardino Koch and Garwood yesterday, you can now catch up on the recording (and for our other previous talks) on our website! #FossilFriday palaeoverse.org/lectures

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

🚀 NEXT WEEK! Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant by Oct 1, 2025. Grants fund projects that strengthen the #rstats ecosystem. Example: volcalc — streamlining chemical volatility research - r-consortium.org/posts/unlock... Details + apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #opensource

Our new TREE paper is out! "‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time." "Over ~3.5 billion years our planet has become increasingly bioengineered...". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

Happy #MaintainerMonday! Today's maintenance tasks: - Code of Conduct and Contributing Guide added to deeptime 📝 - 1 pull request merged for palaeoverse ⤴ - started thinking about caching downloads for rphylopic 🤔 - handling submissions for JOSS 📑

🚨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...

Very exciting to see my first edited submission for @openpalaeo.bsky.social finally published! Check out this excellent contribution to experimental paleontology:

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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....

Great to see this new report from @ithakasr.bsky.social on 12 of our members' #academicOSPOs. The findings share insights on common strategies, challenges, and operating models. 📖 sr.ithaka.org/publications... #AcademicSky #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openscience

August news! 🗞️ #rstats ✨ Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” 🎙️ rOpenSci at @useR_conf 🎙️ rOpenSci at @Posit conf 📰 @yabellini on spreadsheets, in Nature 📆 Coworking: accessibility in September, R-multiverse in October 📦 3 new packages: {trud}, {sasquatch} […]

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.

Interested in inferring biodiversity in deep time? 📈📉 Check out our new R package DeepDiveR, led by @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social and now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, helping you to prepare datasets for machine learning inference with DeepDive 🤿 doi.org/10.1111/2041...