⚠️Don't forget to join us today -  Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

Palaeo@Leeds ECRs are awesome!

Benjamin Mills@bjwmills.bsky.social · last yr.

Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!

Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!

Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds@envleeds.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Dr Amy McGuire, Dr Fred Bowyer and Dr Khushboo Gurung, who have earned awards from The Geological Society for their contributions to geoscience! 🏅 environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts! lifeandplanet.com

If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯

Last week, Palaeo@Leeds PHR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her NERC funded research on the recovery of marine ecosystems following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction to the Leeds Geologists Association.

Got a spare evening on March 20th? Come and see Palaeo@Leeds PGR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social talk about her research on "Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction" with the Leeds Geological Society at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social leedsga.org.uk/event/ecosys...

Huge congratulations to our very Prof Ben Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social for becoming the UK Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering on the receipt of a highly prestigious Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. blavatnikawards.org/honorees/pro...

Palaeo@Leeds PGR @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writes about polytemporalism and her PhD project on how poetry can help us understand mass extinction events for the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...

How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events

Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.

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Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps. See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Professor Benjamin Mills is one of the finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the UK! 👏 He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution. www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...

On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social! www.palass.org/awards-grant...

Have a listen to Palaeo@Leeds postgrad @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social and Leeds-based palaeoartist James McKay talking about James' new book "Yorkshire's Amazing Dinosaurs" on local BBC Radio. 12 mins in... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sile Sibanda - 21/02/2025 - BBC Sounds

Conversation and music for our African and Caribbean communities with Sile Sibanda.

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Palaeo@Leeds researchers have been busy in the first month of 2025... check out our latest set of publications ranging from mass extinctions, biostratigraphy and geochronology, molluscan genomics, and marine geochemistry 🌋🪨☄️🌍⛏️🧬🦪⌛🌊🧪

Excited to be speaking about marine deoxygenation in the past and future at EGU 2025. Please consider also submitting to the session!

Had a great evening, speaking to @geologyglasgow.bsky.social about modelling fossil food webs across mass extinction and recovery for the @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology series. A really interesting group, full of questions and interesting stories. Thanks for having me folks!

The Geological Society of Glasgow@geolsocglasgow.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-... All welcome.

Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-... All welcome.

Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction | Geological Society of Glasgow

Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds

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We hosted the 1st CPEG back in 2018 in Leeds -- it's a brilliant conference. Anyone working on, or generally interested, in the interface between past and present ecology should register!

CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025@cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25

Our Exceptional Lecturer @dralexdunhill.bsky.social will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC in Oxford at PalaeoClub @ox.ac.uk. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/events or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Interested in marine palaeoecology? Looking for a funded PhD? Then apply to come to Leeds to study Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/arc...

Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network

Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities   Professor Crispin Little, Professor Fiona Gill, Dr Stephen Hunter (all School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds); Dr Steffen Kiel (Department of ...

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Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24

...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!

Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

The Palaeo@Leeds crew are on their way to #PalAss24 in Erlangen. Make sure you look out for posters by @sauropodlets.bsky.social ; @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social; @dralexdunhill.bsky.social & Lila Blake as well as a keynote symposium talk by @BaranKarapunar - all focusing on extinction 💀

Nice article about our recent 'cryptic carbon' paper: eos.org/articles/lar...

Large Igneous Provinces May Have Leaked Cryptic Carbon - Eos

Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below the surface, contributing to prolonged warming.

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On December 16th, 2 of our Profs will be giving their inaugural lectures - Prof Ian Burke and Prof Rob Newton - these events are open to the public so please come along! environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-research... Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Inaugural lecture series

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The last supervision meeting of my PhD. Could not be more grateful to my wonderful supervisory team!

Congrats to @barankarapunar.bsky.social & @bethanyjallen.bsky.social for getting their PRIME project funded by Paleosynthesis! www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...