Please consider applying when live for our two roles at UCL, UK! Join an excellent, diverse and friendly team to drive forwards open science and learn lots of new skills!

Lewis A. Jones (he/him)@lewisajones.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️18th December 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our last talk of 2025, given by @singerstone.bsky.social from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, on “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 🦬 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

🌟Continuing our Friday (afternoon) 🌟 Registration 🕐 13:00 – 18:00 📍 Portland Building Symposium: Experimental Palaeontology 🕒 13:30 – 17:15 📍 Portland Building, PO 1.74 Icebreaker Reception 🕠 17:30 – 19:30 📍 Portland Building Atrium & Richmond Building Atrium #PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth

Consider applying for the PhD project, if you're in the market, with two extremely great researchers and managers! I know it'll be fascinating and teach loads of useful skills!

Lewis A. Jones (he/him)@lewisajones.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #PalAss25 #uk

📣 Hey PalAss participants! The 2025 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth is getting closer 🦕📍 Just a quick reminder: If you’re tagging us on social media, don’t forget to use our official hashtag #PalAss25 🙌✨ Happy #FossilFriday! 🐚🦴

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship! Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @thepalass.bsky.social

🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers! Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience. 🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn: ✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]

Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider joining us on our mission to promote community open-access publishing in palaeontology.

🎉 A few facts and figures about this year’s conference! We’re excited to welcome 275 delegates from every continent (except Antarctica 🐧). ✨ Here’s what awaits you: 📣 1 Annual Address 🧪 1 ECR Workshop & Social 🥂 1 Icebreaker Reception 🚌 1 Post-Conference Field Trip [1/2]

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word! openpalaeo.org @openpalaeo.bsky.social

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

Save Geology at the University of Leicester

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Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

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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! ⭐

Lewis A. Jones (he/him)@lewisajones.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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!

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST! Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding. Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ERC Starting Grant. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

We are excited to bring you our next ECR webinar series beginning Wednesday 29th of October at 05:30 pm (GMT) on the ERC Starting Grant. This event is free of charge, but you will need to register. A...

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The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/3]

🚨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-...

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

IPC7@ipc7.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Symposia 🔍 Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature: ✨ Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems✨ 📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the conveners: 👇

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... ⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉 🔗 Registration link ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

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

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨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-...

🚨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-...

📢 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

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

Welcome – Palaeoverse Workshops

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Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 🤩

Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 🤩

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

IUCN Red List Client

IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

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This week, Open Palaeontology published our first research article: a reassessment of the giant millipede-like Arthropleura by Lhéritier, Vallois and Durand! Thank you to the authors for being part of the open-access publishing revolution! www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...

🚨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...

⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨ 🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST 🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #webinar #June #palaeontology #career

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