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

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

It’s finally out! Extremely pleased to share the last chapter of my dissertation to be published! In this study, we take a deep dive into the 242 million-year squamate 🦎🐍 fossil record to quantify factors that lead to the mostly fragmentary specimens in collections today: doi.org/10.1017/pab....

🚨 ‘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.

🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE 🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography! Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬 Link and thread below! 🧵 1/🦴

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Did you know that it's officially #PeerReviewWeek? 📑💭 Whether you're looking to learn more about #PeerReview for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

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

Glad to share our latest article on the "co-coordinated stasis of large mammal diversity with the environments". Long in reviews it is finally out--a work done during the post-doc of Simona Bekeraitė app.pan.pl/article/item... 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

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....

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

🚨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-...

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

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 😎🦕

I had such a great time teaching early career researchers about @github.com and #rstats yesterday at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social! So great to see such excitement about #openscience! Can't wait for the next @palaeoverse.bsky.social workshop at #GSAConnects2025 (@paleosoc.bsky.social short course)!

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩

Here’s your reminder that there’s no Palaeoverse Lecture next week due to our summer break! 🏖️ Looking forward to seeing you all in August, but in the meantime, you can catch up on previous talks on our website at palaeoverse.org/lectures 👇

Happy to announce the publication of our new study!📝‪Ádám T. Kocsis, @kiessl.bsky.social‬, and I examined occupancy trajectory and its influence on extinction risk in marine microplankton! 🔬🦠🌊 (1/2) bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Hugely proud of @sgavirneni.bsky.social for his first paper published last week in Paleobiology. With Linda Ivany, we linked marine #bivalve #extinction risk to adult resting metabolic rate (both whole-body total and mass-specific) over the past 300 million years... [1/5] doi.org/10.1017/pab....

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Ever wanted to infer a morphological or total-evidence phylogeny in BEAST2? It’s long overdue, but we now have a tutorial on Taming the BEAST to talk you through the process 💻🌳⚙️ Thanks to Joëlle Barido-Sottani for helping me pull this together! taming-the-beast.org/tutorials/To...

Quantitative methods underpin all of ecology - whether we like it or not! Join our new webinar series, 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱, where we team up with other BES SIGs to explore quantitative methods in their research fields. Kicking off on 5th Aug. Keep following for updates and links!

We’re excited to hear from @spissatella.bsky.social later today! 🤩

Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.2.0 is now on #CRAN: - geom_text_phylo() for adding labels to radial phylogenies 🏷️ - timescales updated to ICS 2024/12 🗓️ - compatibility with ggplot2 4.0.0 📈 Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

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!

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked: "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?" 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‪[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...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

On Wednesday June 25th at 5pm CEST I’ll be giving an online seminar for Cambridge Prisms about my paper from last year on dinosaur diversity! 🦖🦕 Check here for more info and to access the seminar: cassyni.com/events/S34aR...

Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41... My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!

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

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨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

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...

Taphonomic controls on a multi-element marine skeletal fossil record onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @echinerd.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

Hello folks! A #FossilFriday announcement 📢 We are hoping to become more active on here over the coming months, including sharing more content on topics across palaeontology, data science and open science 🦖📊🔓 If you would like us to repost something, please tag us in the post or send us a DM! 💻

🚨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 🤩

See you later today for our next Lecture! 🤩

Don't miss a great opportunity—register for the Lecture Series organized by @palaeoverse.bsky.social Registration link ⬇️ bit.ly/palaeoverse-... #lecture #palaeontology #modelling