"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."
Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A flyer describing the next four talks in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, which take place on the last Thursday of every month at 3pm UTC. February 26th: Dr Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, London Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them March 26th: Dr Brooke Long-Fox, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank April 30th: Dr Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, University of Birmingham Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package May 28th: Dr Alexandra Howard, Texas A&M University Using palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳
We are looking forward to hearing from @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social, Joseph Flannery-Sutherland and @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social!
Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.
What do we want?
Fossil databases! 🐚🦕
When do we want them?
Forever! 🗓️
Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper is out 🔓!
We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns:
- modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈
- small decline in the K/Pg 🤏
- a peak in the Eocene 🌄
- a long-term decline towards the present �
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Generic diversity trajectories of three clades
Simulation results shows two correlation patterns of morphological disparity and taxonomic recovery through time
Contingent responses of diversity and disparity of different animal groups to the P-Tr mass extinction:
"Ammonoids...brachiopods exhibit refilling of vacated morphospace of shell outlines, Ostracods underwent adaptive radiation"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
New paper out! 🐦📊
We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.
Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Are you familiar with the @palaeoverse.bsky.social Lecture Series?
Check out our YouTube Channel for lectures from community experts on method development and application in Palaeontology:
www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove...
We will be announcing the next set of lectures in the New Year, stay tuned!
Congratulations 🎉 🦈
New paper alert!
We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer:
When did they experience major extinction events?
Does age play a role in extinction selectivity?
If so, does it change with extinction intensity?
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr
We'll be hosting a joint Crossing the Palaeontological–Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium @ucl.ac.uk in London in August 2027, which aims to bridge spatial and temporal gradients between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
To assess how does the arrival of new lineages affect the diversity of a previously isolated fauna 🦥🦝🦣
Great collaboration with
@enriquerodriguez
@juandcarrillo
@rebeccasaurus.bsky.social
@danielesilvestro
🧵2/2
A preprint of my first PhD chapter is out 👩🏽💻
Using an extensive fossil dataset with #deeplearning #DeepDive 🤿
& time-series analysis 📈📉 we model the dynamics of SA mammalian diversity over the Cenozoic, accounting for spatial & temporal biases inherent to the #fossil record
🧵1/2
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!
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag). Credit: Tatsuya Amano
How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge.
doi.org/10.1093/jmam... @ConnorBurgin1 @n8_upham
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms
Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Huge congrats 🥳
The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉
We kicked things off with two fantastic workshop sessions:
📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology and ecology
🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses
Big thanks to all our speakers and participants - spot yourself below!
#CPEGCPB25
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come join us in Swansea! We have a brand new masters program 🌊
Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
Prof Dame Alison Etheridge: 'In spite of appearances, everyone is insecure and no-one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question. Most people in the room probably wanted to ask the same thing but were too embarrassed - asking will win you many friends!'
Prof Erin Saupe: I wish I would have realised sooner that it's OK to be wrong in science, and that admitting you were wrong is a strength, not a weakness. Science should be about testing your assumptions and re-thinking paradigms, not just 'getting things right'.
Prof Daniela Bortoletto: 'That it's okay to say no and set boundaries. You don't need to feel obligated to take on every task, especially those disproportionately assigned to women. Focus on roles that support your scientific and professional growth.'
Prof Tamsin Mather: 'A career is a marathon not a sprint and there will be times things feel better than others or where life has priority. Be patient when things feel tough. Taking time off is so important, not just because work isn't everything, but to stay creative. I've had my best ideas on my bike, kayak, or up a mountain!'
'No one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question.'
For #IDWGS2025, the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division asked scientists from across the faculty about the advice they wish they had received at the beginning of their careers ⬇️
You now have until Feb 15 to submit your abstract!! Registration is free for students :)
Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Extended deadlines and changes to keynote speakers!
🗓️ Abstract deadline EXTENDED: Feb 15th, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
4th circular with full details below!
👉https://cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
