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! 🤩

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

Really happy to see this out! Also super grateful for Jeff bringing me on board; what started as a casual conversation over lunch in the NHM staff room has turned into some really interesting work and a great friendship. What more can you ask for?! Read on for stuff on fossil record preservation! ⤵️

Jeff Thompson@echinerd.bsky.social · last yr.

Super happy to see this out! Ever wondered what regulates taphonomic quality in skeletal fossil records? New with @princessquatris.bsky.social , Tim Ewin, and Maddy Ford we identify the controls on preservational quality in Palaeozoic echinoids onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Go work with Lewis, he's bloody great. But seriously, if you're interested in bias in the fossil record, open science, or corals, he's your man!

Lewis A. Jones (he/him)@lewisajones.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!

Jeff Thompson@echinerd.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

A huge thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social for the write up on our recent Current Biology paper! Happy to have added to the ever growing toolkit for combatting sampling bias in deep time 🖥️📈🦕

Dr. Bethany Allen@bethanyjallen.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology on the neat new paper by @princessquatris.bsky.social et al., highlighting why occupancy modelling is an exciting tool for understanding sampling bias in palaeontology 🦕 You can access it for free using this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HM3QW8S...

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...

🖥️ Our new paper summarising the paleontological community's progress with data equity is now out! 📉 Really thankful to have played a small part in the making of this paper; it was a joy working with these folks and very satisfying to find a home for some of my thoughts on museum data and curation.

Emma Dunne@emmadnn.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳 We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1017/pab....

The paperback is here!

Curlews #WorldCurlewDay

I use the CDNC *literally* daily for research that supports tribal sovereignty/rights claims. This is such a vital resource with outsized impact for U.S. researchers, communities, history, etc etc etc. Please, please, pleaseeee reshare and submit a comment!

Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Funding is being cut for the California Digital Newspaper Collection! The state budget for next year zeroes out all funding, which would put the entire site offline permanently. Please fill out comments - sbud.senate.ca.gov/members/subc... - abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sub-committe... Sample text ⬇️

Great to see Lewis Jones received his Doscar as one of the winners of the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for his work on the Paleoverse (palaeoverse.org) a community space improving reproducibility in palaeobiological research. #Palaeobiology #Reproducibility #OpenResearch #Research

🦖📉 In case anyone missed it, our new paper on using occupancy modelling to resolve the structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record came out yesterday! 🪨⛰️ You can find it here ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol... It's also accompanied by this incredible illustration by @tim-bird.bsky.social!

It’s been hotly debated whether dinosaur populations were thriving or dwindling when an asteroid slammed into the planet 66 million years ago.

Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse

newscientist.com

A new way to gauge the cracks and stains in our windows to the deep past.

Christopher Dean@princessquatris.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨 We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction! www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨 We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction! www.cell.com/current-biol...

The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America

Dean et al. examine the fossil record of North American dinosaurs prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Estimates of detection probability from occupancy models decrease prior to the extinction...

cell.com

Our new paper out today describes a sebecoidean crocodylomorph from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia, and provides support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg. @pdmannion.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The Palaeoverse team have published a 🚨new preprint🚨 on “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology” 🧹🐚 Take a look here: doi.org/10.32942/X2FS8M There is also an accompanying R vignette on our website at tenrules.palaeoverse.org 💻

My new book SMALL WORLD came out yesterday! And it's ironically HUGE (here modelled by my eldest), immersing you in the habitats of 30 of Earth's smallest animals. It's *insanely* illustrated by Rosie Dore and published by Wide Eyed Editions (Quarto) here in the UK. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/smal...

I remember starting my PhD and wishing there was a guide on how to how to prepare data for palaeo analyses. Now there is. Very happy to see this preprint out and more broadly to be a part of the Palaeoverse. It’s a joy to work with these folks in so many ways.

Lewis A. Jones (he/him)@lewisajones.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy #FossilFriday! We’re excited to share our new preprint from the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology”, available now from EcoEvoRXiv: doi.org/10.32942/X2F... With a bonus accompanying vignette! tenrules.palaeoverse.org

Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE

Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up

theguardian.com

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th March 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Next week we will hear from Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, on “FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Without a doubt the best paper you'll read this year. The video abstract is pretty hard to beat too.

Dr Thomas Clements@taphonomist.bsky.social · last yr.

This project was so much fun! If you want to watch a video abstract - check it out here! youtu.be/C3JsBb2ZyRU

Today I have resigned from my position as a Data Editor at Proceedings B. I believe the journal does great work, but it feels wrong to voluntarily spend my time holding authors to account on behalf of the Royal Society, while the Society refuses to hold its own Fellows to account.

Announcing The first found, and most complete, #dinosaur skeleton from the Middle #Jurassic of Scotland! 📢🦖 So delighted to finally be able to share this great new fossil, published today! It was actually the first dinosaur found in #Scotland... thread 🧵 #OpenAccess #fossils doi.org/10.1017/S175...

New paper @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social in which we consider how species' ranges shift, expand, and contract in the present day, past, and future, along with the effects on local and global biodiversity, with Jed Brodie, Ben Freeman & Anna Hargreaves: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @es-ucl.bsky.social

We’d like to announce the Spring 2025 line-up of the 🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 Don’t miss these four excellent speakers! Register for a Zoom link here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

🚨 It's been a week since our 'dark data' manuscript was published! 🚨 If you missed it and want to know how it can impact fossil groups, you can follow this little thread I put together ⬇️

Christopher Dean@princessquatris.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉 We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...