Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini. 🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

Not long now! Don't forget to register for our Early Career Researcher Symposium... it's completely free! #corals #reef #palaeontology #fossil

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! ⭐

📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎 #LivingData2025 #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL

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

🎉 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...

Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦂

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!

If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL

‘Uglies’ deserve data too! #LivingData2025

There is a Colombian IRN-BRU!? #LivingData2025

And it begins! 😁 #LivingData2025

En route to #LivingData2025! Looking forward to connecting with the community, diving into the latest on biodiversity data standards, and exploring how we can better bridge palaeontological, historical, and modern biodiversity data! 🌍🪸📈

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 🧪🌏

Less than one month to go! Don't forget to register! 🪸 #coral #reef #fossil #palaeontology

The next lecture will officially be the 20th! 🎉 Don't miss out on the amazing line up for the upcoming #palaeoverse lecture series 📆 Huge thanks to all past and future presenters, none of this would be possible without your contributions 🙏 Past lectures: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove...

What a terrific event! The organisers did a great job 😁 And oh look, it's me! 🫣

🚨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-...

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

Don't miss this out! 🪸 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

All things corals and reefs! Don't miss out on this fantastic Early Career Researcher event hosted by the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social #coral #reef #palaeontology

It's so great to see this package (on CRAN since 2021) finally formally described in a journal! Here's to many more years of standardized, customizable, and reproducible geology data visualization! And shout out to @richardstockey.bsky.social and @lewisajones.bsky.social for years of encouragement!

Love venom? Check out NOXIOUS m.youtube.com/watch?v=6C67... And @joshlukedavis.com cheats with three specimens!

🚨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-...

Everything you want to know about Pulleniatina can be found in the paper out last week: Systematic taxonomy of Pulleniatina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 55: 245-275. DOI:10.61551/gsjfr.55.3.245 by Paul Pearson, Alessio Fabbrini and Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social‬ #IODP #UCL #NERC

If you are attending @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social and would like to hear more about the palaeoverse R package, come and speak to us at our poster today! We got the coolest spot in the museum 😎🦕

Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.

Come see me wrestle with the philosophical conundrum of what we measure and why and how, plus some stuff about geometry that hopefully would bewilder the teacher who kicked me out of high school math!

Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀 Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

Really happy to see this out! Also super grateful for Jeff bringing me on board; what started as a casual conversation over lunch in the NHM staff room has turned into some really interesting work and a great friendship. What more can you ask for?! Read on for stuff on fossil record preservation! ⤵️

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out! We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social! 📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Pedro is a great researcher and an amazing person! What more could you ask for in a host? 😁

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Thanks to @richardstockey.bsky.social for a fantastic lecture yesterday! If missed it, you can now catch up on this (and our other previous lectures) on YouTube and our website, at palaeoverse.org/lectures 🤩

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Two Pull Requests reviewed 🔍, one new feature finalised 👨‍💻, and one bug squashed 🐜 - Happy #MaintainerMonday!

New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity

Congratulations @lewisajones.bsky.social! 🥳🥳🥳

Great to see Lewis Jones received his Doscar as one of the winners of the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for his work on the Paleoverse (palaeoverse.org) a community space improving reproducibility in palaeobiological research. #Palaeobiology #Reproducibility #OpenResearch #Research

Huge congratulations to @princessquatris.bsky.social on leading this exciting application of occupancy modelling to the fossil record!

🚨R package StratPal update🚨 Full integration with the FossilSim package to study effects of #taphonomy and #ecology on #phylogenetic trees with sampled ancestors, and simplified handling of categorical niche models 😁 #stratigraphy mindthegap-erc.github.io/StratPal/ind...

I am extremely grateful to have my efforts recognised by the Dorothy Bishop Prize! Thank you to those that nominated me - it really means a lot 🫠 I am very lucky to work with many fantastic colleagues @palaeoverse.bsky.social as we continue our efforts to promote open science in palaeobiology!

It's a small thing, but thanks to all the African researchers who have been contributing records to the African Pollen Database, the plot of African data in Neotoma now actually looks like Africa. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! #paleoecology #pollen #APD

Eek! #ALCSDay is nearly upon us! Next week, we’ll be paying out more than £35 million to 111,415 authors. Thank you for everything you do! 🙏

I remember starting my PhD and wishing there was a guide on how to how to prepare data for palaeo analyses. Now there is. Very happy to see this preprint out and more broadly to be a part of the Palaeoverse. It’s a joy to work with these folks in so many ways.

So happy to share our new preprint on cleaning and sharing palaeobiological occurrence data! This was such a great paper to work on, with a fantastic team! 🌟

I am honoured to be given platform to present our work on FOSSILPOL!🫶 Come join the seminar(!) but The slides and recording will be publicly available😉 Also checkout the website of the project 🔗https://bit.ly/FOSSILPOL!

Happy #FossilFriday! We’re excited to share our new preprint from the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology”, available now from EcoEvoRXiv: doi.org/10.32942/X2F... With a bonus accompanying vignette! tenrules.palaeoverse.org