✨ Participation is FREE (travel & accommodation not covered)
⏰ Applications close May 24
👉 lorentzcenter.nl/bridging-stratigraphic-palaeobiology-and-phylogenetics.html
Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!
Together we aim to:
⚙️ Build workflows bringing the geological record into phylogenetic inference
🗺️ Map the digital infrastructure we need
💻 Turn theoretical advances into real, usable research software
We will have talks from a number of amazing speakers including: Mark Patzkowsky, Lydian Boschman, April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social , Sergei Tarasov, Phil Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, Alexandra Gavryushkina, Ugne Stolz, and Joëlle Barido-Sottani
This workshop brings together stratigraphers, evolutionary biologists & research software engineers to tackle this directly, hands-on, all in one room!
Stratigraphy & phylogenetics are deeply intertwined, but one is the purview of Earth scientists, and the other of biologists.
This disciplinary divide, alongside computational & technical barriers, has previously hindered the incorporation of stratigraphic & fossil data into phylogenetic inference.
🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding
📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden
📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026
Applications open - details below 👇
Heatmap figure showing how relative disparity error changes across different trait models, ancestral state estimation approaches and fossil sampling densities
New preprint🚨happy to share work from my first PhD chapter, evaluating the ways in which we can integrate ancestral state estimations into disparity workflows, completed alongside @tguillerme.bsky.social , Gavin Thomas & @nhcooper123.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
Really exciting results coming in, looking forward to sharing more soon! ✨
Applications to join the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop are still accepted! Do not miss your chance to attend this event full of discussions on the computational methods for studying early life! 🦠💻🧬
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PGRs Amy Shipley (@sauropodlets.bsky.social) & Lydia Woods recently published a review in @globalchangebio.bsky.social showing that while today’s extinction rates aren't yet at "Big Five" mass extinction levels, they’re likely the highest seen in the last 66myrs.
amdunhill.co.uk/2025/11/17/n...
Applications for the London TREES DTP programme are now open: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/news/applica...
We have a project on Bayesian phylogenetics! 😀
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int...
Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....
A woman delivering a talk
@lauramulvey.bsky.social absolutely killing it talking about the difference between model adequacy and model selection and describing lightweight methods to assess adequacy. #evol2025
Paper here academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
European Australian lifts leg onto window sill and holds aloft a Workshop invitation.
Sometimes in a fossil policy workshop you have to take a strong stand.
@thepalass.bsky.social
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...
"...simulation studies demonstrate that empirical expertise is key to obtaining reliable results when using FBD models. It is therefore crucial that fundamental stratigraphic and taxonomic research remain well supported" 👏👏👏
Simplified flowchart illustrating generalised steps in palaeobiological research processes and the various factors that introduce inequity with regard to data collection, storage, study, analysis, publication, and reuse.
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....
📢 Tired of choosing between fossils to incorporate into your phylogenetic analysis? Us too.
💥 Check out our new preprint on incorporating stratigraphic ranges into the FBD model, implemented in BEAST2. We explore how using ranges affects the inference of dog 🐶 and penguin 🐧 trees 🌳
🎂 Happy 10th birthday to the fossilised birth-death model, and happy 50th birthday to Paleobiology 🎂
I had a lot of fun working on this review, led by @lauramulvey.bsky.social, in which we celebrate how the FBD has been applied and give pointers to those interested in giving it a go! 🌳
Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....
Very proud to be featured alongside other excellent early career scientists in a new video by @thepalass.bsky.social!
We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are!
youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...
The clock is ticking 🕔! Pre-registration will close today March 14th (17:00h GMT+0), do not miss your chance to join us at the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! 💻🧬
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
And finally have it in preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In it, we (@basantakhakurel.bsky.social, @brenenwynd.bsky.social, @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, and Christian Kammerer) took a look at estimating a phylogenetic tree of dicynodonts using both discrete and continuous characters.
🚨New Publication🚨
Seamlessly integrate #stratigraphy, #taphonomy, #ecology and evolutionary biology to build your modeling pipelines for stratigraphic #paleobiology
Published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social , R package available on CRAN
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As my very first post here on Bluesky I am happy to share our article in Royal Society about tooth wear and diet in the large Devonian chondrichthyan Ctenacanthus concinnus from Morocco
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...