Feedback from the field!

Alexis Licht@alexislicht.bsky.social · last wk.

For #fossilfriday, a picture from our current paleontological field trip in Kazakhstan: paleontologist Pauline Coster picking fossil rodent teeth in Eocene screen washed sediment. This year, we screen washed 1.5 tons of material, our personal record!

🚨new paper alert🚨the first paper of PhD student Paul Botté and the first dataset of clumped isotonic data acquired at @cerege.bsky.social by @r0seturqu0ise.bsky.social! Investigating the late Eocene - Oligocene climate evolution in Balkanatolia with a new terrestrial record. doi.org/10.5194/cp-2...

Anatolia (Türkiye) during the late Eocene and the Eocene–Oligocene Transition: successive warming and cooling, aridification, and implications for the westward dispersal of Asian terrestrial mammals

Abstract. The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT dated at ∼ 34 Ma) represents one of the most significant climatic shifts of the Cenozoic, marking the transition from the last warmhouse state to a coolh...

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🚨new paper from the group!🚨

Alexis Licht@alexislicht.bsky.social · last mo.

A new paper from the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project! In this study, we investigated how embrithopods, these massive herbivorous mammals who once throve in Africa, succeeded to cross the Neotethys and diversified on Balkanatolia (1/n) doi.org/10.2110/palo...

A new video of the project, featuring Saïda Nigmatova, paleobotanist and research director of the Satpayev Institute of geology of Almaty! Saïda studies Paleogene ecosystems of central Asia, which are keys to understand past dispersal events between Europe and Asia. youtu.be/n6lpQHo49p0?...

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal Project | Scientist Interview #6

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SEM imaging session today at @cerege.bsky.social ! High resolution images of Eocene fossil rodent teeth for their identification

New interview of Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, CNRS researcher in paleoclimate and paleogeography, is out! Discover his contribution to ERC Dispersal, his scientific motivations, and his views on today’s research challenges. youtu.be/vf5MqQ1mACE

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #4

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An exhibition featuring the work of our team, and especially the artwork of Paul Botté, PhD student in the project !

Climate group @CEREGE, France@climatecerege.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yesterday we were numerous to celebrate the exhibition of the artwork of Paul Botté, PhD student and photographer in our team, featured in Aix en Provence!

Please join us in welcoming Manon Lorcery to the ERC DISPERSAL team 👋 Her research will focus on ecological niche modelling of Eocene primates and rodents, as well as environmental connectivity, to better understand how these mammals dispersed across ancient landscapes.

Curious where your back yard was when dinosaurs (or even earlier) roamed the Earth? @bramvaes.bsky.social, who joined the team, contributed to the development of Paleolatitude.org during his time at Utrecht University, a fun yet powerful tool to track any place on Earth back to the time of Pangaea.

Featuring the work of Paul Botté, PhD student in our research group!

Climate group @CEREGE, France@climatecerege.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Paul Botté, doctorant dans notre équipe, expose ses clichés de terrain au mois de mai au 3C à Aix en Provence ( cafeculturelcitoyen.org/evenements/e...) . L'occasion de venir découvrir notre travail et l'art de l'un des nôtres !

What if a lost continent could reveal hidden chapters of evolution? New interview out 🎥 Meet Chris Beard and explore Balkanatolia, an echo of African faunas, where fossils and new techniques uncover mammal dispersal 🦴 youtu.be/8vUZkenrvzo

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #4

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Back in the field with the team in the Luberon under the Provençal sun ☀️ Careful digging, a bit of patience… and sometimes, a small discovery like this fossilized rodent jaw. A small find, but another big clue from the past!

After the interview, dive deeper This study by @BenjaminRaynaud, Phd Student of @carinaHoorn on Eocene pollen from Türkiye reveals new taxa, wet temperate climates, and common ecosystems from Europe to Central Asia. Proof that tiny fossils can tell vast stories.

Our third interview is out! Meet Carina HOORN and dive into the fascinating world of pollen and spores, tiny but powerful storytellers that take us far back in deep time 🌿 youtu.be/HkPBP88OgSE

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #3|

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Welcome aboard! 👋 We’re delighted to welcome Yohan Roussy, a Master 2 student joining us in the Luberon to work on clays and climate. A great opportunity to explore how sediments record past environmental and climatic changes.

Before working on the DISPERSAL project, @mustafayk.bsky.social already work on Paleogene climate for a different ERC project: The MAGIC project, focusing on Eocene monsoons. A fun archive of him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr84...

Mustafa Kaya doctoral student on past Eurasian sea in the MAGIC ERC project.

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After @mustafayk.bsky.social interview, check his sedimentary work of the Karaburun section (NWTurkey) showing that global cooling & Antarctic glaciation triggered boreal water influxes & regional hydrological shifts, offering new insights into the Paratethys response to global cooling at the EOT

New interview out! 🌍 youtu.be/QKRqI_fL_YY?... @mustafayk.bsky.social shares his journey as a sedimentologist and geochemist in the ERC Dispersal project — from analyzing paleomagnetic sample collections in Kazakhstan to what excites him most about his research and the challenges of postdoc life.

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #2Interview KAYA

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Pauline Coster and @alexislicht.bsky.social presenting their results on the Eocene paleontological record of Kazakhstan today at the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty.

Hard working day at the Satpaev institute of Geology in Almaty, sorting through the Paleogene paleontological collections with Pauline Coster and Saida Nigmatova!

Visiting the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty for a week, to work with our @dispersal-erc.bsky.social collaborators. And enjoying a tea with one of the last living vertebrate paleontologists in Kazakhstan, Bolat Baishashov!

Big shout-out to Leny Montheil! His first ERC Dispersal interview is now live and comes with a brand-new paper on how Asian mammals crossed shifting continents during the Eocene (-80 to -40 Ma) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea... Watch continents move 🌍

The first PhD paper of @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, part of our project, documenting the middle Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia!

Benjamin Raynaud@benjaminraynaud.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia". doi.org/10.1016/j.js... This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social 1/4

The first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia". doi.org/10.1016/j.js... This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social 1/4

🎙️ Our first interview is out! Meet Leny Montheil, geodynamicist and paleogeography specialist, as he takes us back to the Eocene to explore how primates dispersed across a changing world. ▶️ Watch it now on YouTube youtu.be/bjzU_UIXseU

The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #1

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A new preprint from our research group is online! In this paper, Paul Botté, PhD student in the project at @climatecerege.bsky.social, studied the evolution of continental environmental through the late Eocene and earliest Oligocene in central Anatolia. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

How did mammals cross oceans millions of years ago? Our first video introducing the ERC-funded DISPERSAL project is live on YouTube 🎉 👇 Check it out! youtu.be/COdGQYkdraw 🎙️ First episode of a series of interviews with the scientists involved. Stay tuned — more interviews coming soon!

🐒🌊 Crossing oceans without boats: the mysterious overwater dispersals of ancient mammals

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Want to learn more about how primates and rodents could have reach South America in the distant past? A new paper led by our team!

Alexis Licht@alexislicht.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Paul Botté from @climatecerege.bsky.social and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social from @cr2p.bsky.social presenting their work on #balkanatolia paleoenvironments today at the yearly conference of Turkish Earth scientists in Yozgat. Back to fieldwork tomorrow!