From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025: Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science! Spaces are limited so sign up while you can! vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...

It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review. Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year. Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Many people have sent me the CNN piece on trade in 🇲🇦 fossils. It does many things well; picking interviewees is not one of them. No legal experts, only palaeontologists repeating legal factoids. Please read my comment. 🌐CNN: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s... ✒️Blog: paul-stewens.com/blog/2025/mo...

Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help! nisoplusglobalonline.cadmore.media/Home

Wholeheartedly agree with Emma. The piece is a really mixed bag: very comprehensive, topical, and timely, but with a selection of experts that I find partially questionable. Call me crazy, but I do think that a piece about the legality of the fossil trade should include legal experts. [cont'd]

⚒️🧪Attention here 👇🏼!!! 🎯🎯🎯🎯

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦 But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1] edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyers ⚒️🧪 theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

If you are ever close to Tübingen, a great experience is the "Ammonite Pavement" in Ofterdingen. They are huge! Geopark Swabian Alb. www.geopark-alb.de/geopark-erle...

More #AmniotaLab science! 📢 Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊 the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species! Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩 So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder! @fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666730v1

Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and deepened understanding of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in seawater. adalovelaceday.subst...

🌿 How does Bayesian inference deepen our understanding of evolutionary histories? Registration is now open for the new edition of the course "Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference with BEAST2" https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/bayesian-phylogenetic-inference-with-beast2/

Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉 We kicked things off with two fantastic workshop sessions: 📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology and ecology 🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses Big thanks to all our speakers and participants - spot yourself below! #CPEGCPB25

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

I've had a few conversations about people still not enjoying #BlueSky as much as some traditional social media platforms. One tip I have is pin the OnlyPosts feed: you will then see posts from folks you follow, chronologically, with nothing else.

We now have protein sequences from rhino enamel that are >20 million years old! I am extremely excited and grateful to have been part of this project. The incredible thing: these sequences are informative enough to place this ancient species in the rhino tree! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Better version of the meme.

another dinosaur fossil sold at auction for over $30 million 🫠 this time a juvenile ceratosaurus, although there was also a rather lovely looking pachycephalosaurus skull that went for $1.4m news.artnet.com/art-world/un...

New preprint from @tobyhandfield.bsky.social and me! We analyze authorship order norms from two perspectives: (1) why do disciplines have different norms and (2) do those different norms affect what kinds of collaborations take place. arxiv.org/abs/2507.07364

🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨 Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction rdcu.be/ev6XV 🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵

Can macroevolutionary indices be used to inform contemporary extinction risk? We explore this question in an Ecology Letters review out today. Led by Sarah-Sophie Weil and Laure Gallien, it should be a useful resource for anyone using these approaches. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

So trans women can't give blood because biologically they are female and have female ranges for everything, but the NHS has decided we are legally male and we must meet male ranges in order to donate? I want to scream. The science denial around trans people and biological sex is hurting everyone

I continue to be very concerned by the artificial barriers around what is findable created by organisations such as WoS and Scopus. But we can also be guilty of encouraging it in libraries, pointing people towards what we have access to rather than to everything and then finding access. 1/3

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

Must read: Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚 Also on The Conversation for a #scicomm breakdown: theconversation.com/how-pterosau...

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bullying is rife in academia. But in Germany, structural and legal systems enable and embolden a few bad eggs who choose to abuse their power. Shining a light on these problems is painful for those affected, but is an important step on the long road to reform 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑‍🔬🔍 I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.

A maths-performance gender gap in favour of boys is apparent after four months of schooling, according to an analysis of nearly 3 million first and second grade students in France published in Nature. go.nature.com/3HAvOtT #Edusky 🧪

ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole: