I heard a stratigraphy joke but it was a bit dated.

New paper emerging from our Paleosynthesis project @paleosynth.bsky.social. In www.nature.com/articles/s41..., we highlight the value of databases to #paleontology and the importantce of sustained funding. Our finding are probably applicable to other science fields as well.

🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future. Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What do we want? Fossil databases! 🐚🦕 When do we want them? Forever! 🗓️ Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

West Antarctic Ice Sheet glaciers underwent at least five major inland retreats during the Pliocene—a period with temperatures similar to projected future warming—suggesting the possibility of meter-scale global sea-level rise in our future. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/I6NZ50XRaap

The #ThwaitesGlacier region has a prior history of dramatic #glacial-deglacial switching in the #Pliocene www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Only have a dissecting scope onboard, unfortunately.

Response to “Radiolarian evolution: Analytical challenges in estimating the diversity and origin of Nature’s stars” doi.org/10.32942/X2V...

Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for paleontology’s digital infrastructure DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

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.

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE

Is it just for me or are all the IODP Proceedings currently unreachable? I'm getting Error 403 on all of them and the individual DOIs lead to Error: DOI not found.

Now published online in Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...

And it is finally out! bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

A bunch of cells of the nasselarian radiolarian Plagiacantha arachnoides--like a group of little spiders! Plus a couple of bonus acantharians. From the gulf of maine #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

Second paper in Ecology & Evolution out in two consecutive days! 🐢🤩🐢 "Functional and character disparity are decoupled in turtle mandibles", w team fr MfN Berlin (incl. @plannapus.bsky.social) I guess the German chancellor would call this a "Doppel-Wumms" 😜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"The death of an acantharian" Or: why we don't have fossil acantharian skeletons like we do for their glassy and chalky cousins. I think in this case it might somehow be an active process--acantharian skeletons from cells that swarm away last longer.

Sarah, Dave and I just got a small piece published in PAGES Magazine on the legacy of IODP in term of evolutionary studies and conservation biology (with radiolarians as case study): doi.org/10.22498/pag...

Happy to have collaborated on this with Miguel! A new time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of radiolarians with insights on their hidden diversity 🧪

Radiolaria are known for their elaborate and gorgeous skeletons, found all over our oceans. But what if I tell you that half of their diversity might be naked!? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New article from our student Gabrielle, on Late Eocene paleoproductivity in the Southern Ocean! 🧪 cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/...

Our latest study using the Neptune database is out as a preprint. Long story short: we tried to replicate past estimates of global sedimentation rates during the Cenozoic and noticed biases that went previously ignored and tried to correct them. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

The first finely resolved CO2-curve for the last 66 million years. Almost identical to the temperature curve. Little room for other drivers than greenhouse gasses to control Earth's climate. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A message to the Neptune database users: the website and the database server are not currently accessible. An alternate access is available though as (versioned) backups of the database are now available on Zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...). (1/4)