Wolfgang Kiessling
@kiessl.bsky.social
Paleobiologist, Climate Scientist, Reefs through time
Vor rund 200 Millionen Jahren erwärmte sich die Erde abrupt um mehrere Grad. In Europa brachen immer wieder gewaltige Brände aus – befeuert von einer Pflanze, die Forscher als Katastrophenart bezeichnen.
Trias: Farne als Nährstoff für Feuer über Jahrtausende in Europa
Vor rund 200 Millionen Jahren erwärmte sich die Erde abrupt um mehrere Grad. In Europa brachen immer wieder gewaltige Brände aus – befeuert von einer Pflanze, die Forscher als Katastrophenart bezeichnen.
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A strong appearance of FAU-Paleo #Paleo4Alps in Bolzano 💪😍
PaleoSynthesis@paleosynth.bsky.social · 2w ago✨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
1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.
Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning
Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e
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My editorial in this week’s Science @aaas.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
The enduring pursuit of science in America
Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems. Imagine this body wo...
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A ten year journey comes to a happy end with this publication. We find the Lilliput effect (the dwarfing of species) is larger and more volatile during warming-induced crises than others. Thanks @palaeolina.bsky.social and @djbirddanerd.bsky.social for a most fruitful collaboration.
Kenneth De Baets@djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 2mo agoUnique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Lilliputeffect | #extinction | #hyperthermal | #climatechange | #bodysize
Here we are again with our call for workshops! The call opens today, and you have until June 26 to apply. Take a look at what’s been offered in the past—maybe you can stand out with a completely new topic. Visit: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-work...
Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇
Da ist viel Wahres dran, leider. Ich mag Fossilien. Aber keine Anhänger fossiler Rohstoffe 🙄
BirckenBachF 🌎🎶🇪🇺🌱🐦@birckenbachf.bsky.social · 4mo agoInteressant. Selbst das ManagerMagazin, das wohl niemand als links oder grün oder wirtschaftsfeondlich verdächtigt, spricht Tacheles über die fossile Ideologie und Zerstörungswut der GasMinisterin #fossilMafia
SO VIELE bei Demos "Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen"😍 Wirtschaftsministerin #Reiche @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de greift Energiewende an – doch quer durch die Gesellschaft formiert sich Widerstand. Für saubere Energie, für Unabhängigkeit, gegen fossile Lobbypolitik! #Energiewende Demo #Köln ☀️🌱
Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher bei den Auktionen für ein Strom-Backup benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL vermerkt.
Katherina Reiches Ministerium bat EnBW um Argumente für Gaskraftwerke
Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher bei den Auktionen für ein Strom-Backup benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL vermerkt.
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I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
Barbara Kleine-Marshall@barbaraikm.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are looking for 6 motivated Postdocs interested in various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io #geochemistry
🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓 fau-earth-system-science.github.io starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available
Good insight into the uniqueness of geoscientific thinking.
Eos@eos.org · 5mo agoTwo key features of geoscientists’ temporal thinking stand out: "They take a long view of time, and they expect low-frequency, high-impact events. Geoscientists have internalized the vastness of the age of the Earth and the relative brevity of human history." eos.org/features/how...
Heute ist #InternationalerFrauentag #IWD💐. Zeit, darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass zB. im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem Frauen (insbesondere in Führungspositionen) immer noch unterrepräsentiert sind. Spannend ist dabei auch der Blick auf die bundesfinanzierten großen Forschungseinrichtungen. 🧵 👩🔬🧪🔬
New paper emerging from our Paleosynthesis project @paleosynth.bsky.social. In www.nature.com/articles/s41..., we highlight the value of databases to #paleontology and the importantce of sustained funding. Our finding are probably applicable to other science fields as well.
The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...
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Grad students! Three more weeks to submit your Paleobiology Summer School application. Don’t forget! We need your application & the letter of support by your supervisor. Questions or do you need assistance? Get in contact and we are happy to help. More info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/apw-apply/
Apply for Sepkoski Grants $1000 USD if you are a paleontologist from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-gra... deadline March 1 @paleosoc.bsky.social
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Wow—thanks @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for posting the entire issue of Paleobiology vol 51/4 2025 “Punctuated Equilibria at 50”—open access papers from the GSA 2022 50th anniversary symposium! A great community celebration!!
Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 7mo agoReally excited to have the new issue of Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social out celebrating the 50th anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria #macroevolution #paleobiology #palaeontology #paleontology @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A little less than a week to submit abstracts for the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! Join our session on #MarineBiodiversity science across time and disciplines can help achieve the #30x30 protection goal! 🐳🐙🐟🦈 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Session GBF3
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@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them. 📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...
Bundeskanzler Merz: Taten statt Blockaden auf der Klimakonferenz!
Die Welt blickt auf die kommenden Klimaverhandlungen in Belém. Dieser Gipfel wird den Kurs für die globalen Klimamaßnahmender nächsten Jahre bestimmen – in einer Zeit, in der die Klimakrise längst Rea...
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Coming to WBF2026 in Davos? Join our session on supporting GBF goals using marine biodiversity across time and disciplines! 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... @worldbioforum.bsky.social
Was ist verkehrt an einem verplichtenden Gesellschaftsjahr? Es könnte so viele Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen. Ein bisschen mehr an einem Strang ziehen, kann uns in Deutschland sicher nicht schaden.
Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit
Moriaki Yasuhara@moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 10mo agoAlso press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions
The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.
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 agoSymposia 🔍 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: 👇
🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸 📆 13th November 2025 ⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC 🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
