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✨ Summer School recap: DONE! 2027 planning: IN PROGRESS! 🗓️ Currently locking in the dates for 2027 to share them straight away - the Call for Applications following shortly after! Keep your eyes peeled & stay tuned! 👀https://www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-schools/ #SummerSchool #PhDLife #ECR

Down to the final 2 days of Summer School after an awesome 🌭BBQ night🔥 Today: “Spatial Subsampling and #NicheModeling” with Erin Saupe & Cooper Malanoski. Hard to believe these 3 weeks are almost over! Hope everyone had an incredible time and learned a lot. 🙌✨ #ScienceCommunity #FinalCountdown

Only 3 days left of Summer School—time is absolutely flying! ⏳ We're diving into an exciting new topic: “Analyses of #DiversityDynamics with #CaptureMarkRecapture” led by Lee Hsiang Liow & Isaiah Smith. Lee Hsiang can't join us in person, we’re shifting into a hybrid format. Thanks 🙌 #AcademicLife

Keeping the momentum rolling with Kjetil Voje taking the stage for a 2day deep dive into #paleoTS. From mastering model fitting to unlocking multivariate trait dynamics, our students are gaining serious computational firepower to supercharge their PhD research.✨ #DeepTime #Paleontology

🌍 Ever wondered where fossils actually lived back in the day? #Paleogeography Sunday! Elizabeth Dowding & Adam Kocsis are diving into the basics of #GIS today, with an overview on how to combine geographic data with the #Fossils 🦴 record, but watch out for those pesky data pitfalls 🪤! #DataModeling

💥 Still riding that enthusiasm! Today, we’re diving headfirst into morphometry. A huge welcome to Ryan Felice, who traveled all the way from 🇬🇧 London to lead our Analytical Paleobiology Workshop over the next two days. It’s always a pleasure to host Ryan 🤩 and learn from his expertise. Welcome back!

Back from the weekend, diving straight into macroevolutionary analyses 📊 Fast fact: Daniele Silvestro (along with other amazing guest lecturers) has been backing us since many years. Huge thanks for the continuous support! 🙌✨ #Macroevolution #GuestLecturer #AcademicCommunity #DataScience

✨New day, new adventure✨! Start of a two-day deep dive into the fascinating world of phylogeny. Rachel Warnock at the helm - or rather, at the keyboard -our students are unlocking 🔐 the code to evolutionary history & learning how to piece together the 🌳 of life. #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils

Passing the mic🎙️ Following Adam Kocsis's intro, Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling kicked off his section yesterday, diving into the core fundamentals of paleobiodiversity analysis. #Paleobiology #Biodiversity #FossilRecord #DataScience #EarthSciences

The time has finally come: Summer School 2026 is kicking off! ☀️🚀 After a warm welcome from Prof. Kießling, Adam Kocsis takes the reins and guides our students through Day 1. We wish all participants an exciting week full of new insights and every success! 💡🙌

The Analytical Paleobiology School (aka ☀️ Summer School ☀️) is fast approaching! We’ll once again welcome 12 PhD students and receive active support from external instructors once again. Many thanks! TY as well to the Volkswagen Foundation for its financial support. (image: google gemini)

✨THE AWARDS GO TO...✨ 🎉 Blast at #Paleo4Alps. Highlight: seeing the Paleo team get recognized for their hard work! 🥳 🖼️Joel Koelewijn - Poster Award! 🎙️Aldo Benites Palomino - best talk by Senior Scientists! ⭐Bastian Seidl - Young Scientist Award! #PalGes #Paleontology #Team #ScienceAwards #PowerHouse

#Paleo4Alps🏔️ Kick off this Sunday. We're ready! Find us: 🔥Monday|S3: Big Paleontology (PI Kiessling, PostDoc Dimitrijevic. Don't miss it! ℹ️Questions? Visit the Helpdesk! Project coordinator, Dr. Seuss has answers. Say hi & connect! 👋 #PaleoSynthesis #BigPaleontology #Paleontology #ScienceCommunity

🪸 Is coral photosymbiosis a permanent superpower? No! New study shows symbiotic corals lagged behind non-symbiotic ones before the Triassic. A major shift in ocean chemistry changed the game. Evolution is context-dependent! 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.253224212 #Evolution #CoralReefs #Paleontology

📉Why are marine animals shrinking? A new study compiling ~9,000 body size records confirms the "Lilliput Effect". The biggest driver? Warming 🥵. This has major implications for our modern warming oceans. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2505564123) #ClimateChange #MarineBiology #Science #Paleontology

And the winners are... 🥁✨ The decision has been made and we couldn’t be happier to congratulate two outstanding workshop teams: SEA-SURGE and PHOTON! We are ready to kick off ⚽ this collaboration and dive deep into some fascinating new topics with them. More details on the PaleoSynthesis HP!

🪱 New research alert from the BITE workshop! Paula Dentzien-Dias & colleagues discovered tapeworm eggs in Permian coprolites (fossilized poop), shedding new light on prehistoric parasites. #OpenAccess! Dive into the deep history of parasites: doi.org/10.4202/app.... #Paleontology #Science #Evolution

Reminder! New MSc (ESDE) at FAU Germany! 🌍🧪 Starts Oct 2026. Interdisciplinary + Science Diplomacy. No tuition fees worldwide! 🎓 Funding: Elite Network of Bavaria. 🗓️ Deadline: July 15 Info & Reg: earthsystem-master.nat.fau.eu

Check out MorphSim! A R package simulating realistic morphological matrices for total-evidence and tip-dated phylogenetics, incl. taphonomic preservation biases; in collaboration with Rachel Warnock, member of the Scientific Advisory Board and Summer School instructor. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.70326

An inspiring week at the Consensis workshop has come to a close! We’ll pick up where we left off this fall. 🍂 The registration deadline for our fall workshop is at the end of the month. There's still time to apply: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-work...

I've been in Germany this past week meeting with old friends and making even more new while forging some strong long-term collaborations. Thanks @paleosynth.bsky.social for hosting the workshop!

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It’s the third day of the CONSENSIS workshop, and the team is still in good spirits and making good progress. PaleoSynthesis postdoc Danijela Dimitrijevic and Pal research assistant Aldo Benites Palomino are greatly supporting. As a reward ^^, we’re having our traditional workshop dinner tonight!

It’s the third day of the CONSENSIS workshop, and the team is still in good spirits and making good progress. PaleoSynthesis postdoc Danijela Dimitrijevic and Pal research assistant Aldo Benites Palomino are greatly supporting. As a reward ^^, we’re having our traditional workshop dinner tonight!

Set up complete! Coffee machines are turned on… Let‘s go!

Just a few more days, and then it finally begins! The CONSENSIS workshop starts on Monday, and we’re really looking forward to learning more about sensory evolution. Already a warm "whale-come" to all our participants and the PI's!

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Earth System Dynamics and Evolution MSc webinar

We are happy to announce a new international Masters of Science in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this October 2026 in Erlangen, Germany. The two year program will provide training in ...

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New MSc in Earth System Dynamics & Evolution at FAU Germany! 🌍🧪 Starts Oct 2026. Interdisciplinary + Science Diplomacy. No tuition fees worldwide! 🎓 Funding: Elite Network of Bavaria. 🗓️ Deadline: July 15 💻 Webinars: May 26 (9:00/18:00 CEST) Info & Reg: earthsystem-master.nat.fau.eu

The FAU is having a new web design also influencing PaleoSynthesis. The relaunch is supposed to happen on Monday ("may the 4th be with us" for a smooth transition). If you encounter issues, have questions or simply want to get in contact, plz use pal-synthesis@fau.de). Image by Fauzi Toto (vecteezy)