#Yourpalaeolife The ECR survey is published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! Early career palaeontologists from all over the world have talked about their experience with fieldwork - how could you change your working practices to get more early career researchers into the field? doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

#Yourpalaeolife: Interrogating the Status of Fieldwork Among Early Career Palaeontology Researchers

This global survey of early career palaeontologists provides the first quantitative data regarding the prevalence of field skills training and field work among junior researchers of the discipline. T....

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A fundamental study on the compositional resolution of the marine fossil record. What range of time scales are represented in typical fossil samples? "TA [Time Averaging]... scaled proportionally with ...an inverse of sediment accumulation rate" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Registrations are open to attend the Computational Molecular Evolution course next year (May 9th - 20th) in wonderful Crete! ☀️ Do not miss the deadline, follow the link below for more info and registration details! 🔽 meetings.embo.org/event/27-com...

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model

Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

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📣We are looking for a junior research group leader on 'Modeling Global Biogeochemical Cycles' as part of TERRA @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Funding is available for the group lead, a PhD position, expenses and more! For more details scan the QR code or go to www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/tubi... 🌍.

The EGU #EDI Committee is looking for new members to help implement and promote EDI initiatives within the European Geosciences Union! 🔎Learn more here: egu.eu/29PU5F 🗓️Apply by 10 August 2026. 📸: Fulvia Baratelli on imaggeo.egu.eu

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th July 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona from IBIOMAR, CONICET on “Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

Are you looking to gain experience with peer review of scientific manuscripts? After two very successful editions, EGU is once again offering our Members FREE Peer Review Training! Apply by 28 July 2026 👇️ www.egu.eu/news/1780/eg...

EGU peer review training workshop 2026 – apply now!

<p>Are you a researcher who wants to be more confident doing peer reviews? Or an Early Career Scientist worried about doing your first review? This EGU sponsored, free workshop will help you develop…

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Registration is OPEN for the main BES meeting in December. The past two years they've had to close registration early, so sign up while you still can! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...

Attn paleoecologists & community ecologists: July 23, 3-4pm BST there will be a workshop about multinomialTS, a new state-space time-series model for testing hypotheses about the environmental and biotic drivers of community dynamics. Register now! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mult...

💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org

🔎OPal is seeking a Managing Editor to join its Editorial Team! Please consider applying if you want to play a leading role in shaping a growing diamond open-access journal making high quality palaeontological research broadly accessible. Deadline is 07/08/2026 Read more on how to apply below👇

How much do you need to change temprature to start a mass extinction? To learn from Earth's history, magnitudes larger than 5.2 °C and rates higher than 10 °C/Myr (our current rate of change is ~8,620 °C/Myr). 🧪⚒️ Link:​ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25019-2

📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below

NAPC 2028 website is now live! napc2028.sites.utk.edu

Welcome to NAPC 2028! - NAPC 2028

Join  the international paleontology community for the 13th North American Paleontological Conference from May 22-26, 2028 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The North American Paleontological Conference is a m...

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New paper in @bdj.pensoft.net led by @andremenegotto.bsky.social - A big analysis of @marinespecies.bsky.social asking, How similar are species names, and why does this matter? Potentially important implications for biodiversity data science. bdj.pensoft.net/article/1969...

How similar are species names and why does this matter for biodiversity data

Standardising taxonomic names is an essential step in biodiversity studies to ensure robust data aggregation under the most recent accepted species nomenclature. Fuzzy (inexact) matching is widely use...

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@historicalbiology.bsky.social Historical Biology is looking for a Data Editor to join the new Data Team! Dr Brooke Long-Fox (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) & Dr Sarah Shelley are our current Data Editors, interested in joining them? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

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1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

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Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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James S. Crampton, Michael Foote, Peter M. Sadler and Roger A. Cooper (2026) The spectrum of extinction rate magnitude Paleobiology (advance online publication) DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pab.... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 #PREPRINT ALERT 🚨 Do gaps in the #fossil record bias phylogenetic inference? And do priors on gap duration improve estimates? Surprising results from the intersection of #stratigraphy, #paleontology and #phylogeny @rachelwarnock.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Phylogenetic inference from an incomplete fossil record

Fossil data is crucial to construct phylogenetic time trees, which serve as the basis to test a wide range of evolutionary hypotheses. While the fossil record is known to be incomplete, modern stratig...

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🧐 How does temporal resolution alter what we think we know about Earth's biggest mass extinction event? 🐚 📉 😎 ​Our new preprint on the influence of temporal resolution on inferences of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction is out on @biorxiv.org 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Temporal resolution reshapes dynamics of inferred community structure and extinction selectivity across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

The Permian-Triassic mass extinction fundamentally restructured ecosystems, yet it remains unresolved whether ecological collapse unfolded gradually or in discrete steps, and how extinction selectivit...

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Temporal resolution reshapes dynamics of inferred community structure and extinction selectivity across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733099v1

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

🚨 #preprint alert🚨 Everyone loves high resolution paleorecords, but what determines their temporal resolution and orderedness? New counterintuitive results with implications for #conservation #paleobiology and age depth modeling #sedimentology 1/n eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Lilliputeffect | #extinction | #hyperthermal | #climatechange | #bodysize

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises | PNAS

The term &ldquo;Lilliput Effect&rdquo; describes a substantial decrease in the average body size of fossil assemblages during major environmental perturbations...

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Fun day out at Lindlar Quarry last week with CRC 1211! Despite the heat, this computational researcher got a buzz out of spending a day actually finding fossils 🤓 even better for being plant fossils from one of the oldest known forests (Mid Devonian, ~390 Ma) 🪨🌱

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th June 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Corinne Myers from the University of New Mexico on “PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth”. 💻🌍 sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...