⚠️Don't forget to join us today -  Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨ For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website: www.palass.org/meetings-eve... #conference #student #uk

If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

PhDone!!! Passed my viva with minor corrections! Thanks to @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social and Andrea Manica for supervising, and Prof Rob Fletcher and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social for examining!

The badger might be making a very good point....

Waiting for my flight back to the UK at Oslo airport. Had a great time visiting @lhliow.bsky.social and her group to give @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations lecture. Oslo is so nice!

Fell in love a bit with Oslo today 🇳🇴

Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯

Last week, Palaeo@Leeds PHR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her NERC funded research on the recovery of marine ecosystems following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction to the Leeds Geologists Association.

Got a spare evening on March 20th? Come and see Palaeo@Leeds PGR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social talk about her research on "Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction" with the Leeds Geological Society at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social leedsga.org.uk/event/ecosys...

Palaeo@Leeds PGR @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writes about polytemporalism and her PhD project on how poetry can help us understand mass extinction events for the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...

On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social! www.palass.org/awards-grant...

Have a listen to Palaeo@Leeds postgrad @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social and Leeds-based palaeoartist James McKay talking about James' new book "Yorkshire's Amazing Dinosaurs" on local BBC Radio. 12 mins in... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Had a great evening, speaking to @geologyglasgow.bsky.social about modelling fossil food webs across mass extinction and recovery for the @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology series. A really interesting group, full of questions and interesting stories. Thanks for having me folks!

Off up north to Glasgow this week - come along and listen to me chat about mass extinctions and what happened to life in our oceans millions of years ago!

Our Exceptional Lecturer @dralexdunhill.bsky.social will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC in Oxford at PalaeoClub @ox.ac.uk. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/events or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds, UK with myself, @willhomoky.bsky.social @altagliabue.bsky.social @marmite-usf.bsky.social S.Ussher & A. Milne studying how natural iron fertilisation shapes phytoplankton growth and impacts our climate. Deadline 8th Jan. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/sou...

My group and I had a great time at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting at FAU Erlangen last week... just about recovered now. Here are the highlights of the conference from a DeepBio@Leeds perspective... amdunhill.co.uk/2024/12/17/d... #PalAss24

Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24

Poster on ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction by @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

Poster on extinctions drivers of the Pliocene megafaunal extinction by @sauropodlets.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

Invited symposium talk by @barankarapunar.bsky.social on community collapse across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction #PalAss24

Poster by Lilian Perez-Sosa et al. on modelling extinction rates in the Phanerozoic on 500 year intervals (presented by @dralexdunhill.bsky.social) #PalAss24

Poster on predicting extinction risk based on palaeogeography through the Phanerozoic by Lila Blake et al. - work completed during Lila's time working with @eesaupe.bsky.social #PalAss24

...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!

#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

Hiya @thepalass.bsky.social meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.

The Palaeo@Leeds crew are on their way to #PalAss24 in Erlangen. Make sure you look out for posters by @sauropodlets.bsky.social ; @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social; @dralexdunhill.bsky.social & Lila Blake as well as a keynote symposium talk by @BaranKarapunar - all focusing on extinction 💀

🚨 PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk with Rowan Whittle, @sauravdutta.bsky.social (BAS), Dani Schmidt (Bristol), @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (Leeds) & me! Interested in marine palaeoecology & links to climate in the Eocene of #Antarctica? Get in touch for more info. 🧪⚒️ www.bas.ac.uk/science/scie...

Are you a postgraduate scientist looking for a PhD in palaeobiology, geochemistry or palaeoenvironments? Then look no further than these NERC YESDTN scholarship opportunities to come and work at Leeds with the Palaeo@Leeds cluster yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

🥳🥳 I am thrilled to be joining of the PaleoLeeds research group!

Welcome @barankarapunar.bsky.social! Baran joins @PalaeoLeeds as a Research Fellow investigating community collapse across mass extinction events throughout the Phanerozoic.

Anyone at #AGU23 interested in Cenozoic palaeoecology, ecosystems, big sharks etc. be sure to search out Amy Shipley & her poster on Neogene marine food webs, apex predator loss & ecosystem structure across the Plio-Pleistocene boundary TODAY 0830-1250 PT

Tune in to listen to me ramble on about mass extinctions, food webs and community collapse 🐙🐚🕸️

I'm recruiting graduate students to join my lab in 2024! Possible MS projects include 1) comparative study of character evolution models w/ fossil echinoderms, 2) field-based analysis of crinoid morphological disparity across the end-Ordovician extinction. Please share & feel free to reach out!

Fantastic @ESSILeeds seminar by @_Tiffany_Slater from @IrishFossils @UCC on the taphonomy of feathers with the message that modern feather chemistry is ancient.

Looking for a fully-funded palaeo-themed PhD? Look no further than the NERC Panorama DTP pages, offering projects across the universities of Leeds, York and Hull. panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/the...

Palaeo@Leeds PGR Amy Shipley will be giving a research talk on "The extinction of a giant apex predator: implications for food web structure" at Burlington House on 1st Dec for the Geologists' Association, also available via Zoom. Don't miss it - it will be good.