🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️30th April 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week for a talk by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
@joeflansan.bsky.social
from University of Birmingham, on “Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package” 💻
bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
🚨 Out today: our Editorial in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social on an important issue in science - the reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses.
In it, we analyze several years of editorial data to ask a simple question: are things improving?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years.
The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly
We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.
Infographic showing the main steps in the preparation and publication of 3D datasets.
How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daniajinn.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday
And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official".
We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort:
(1/)
[blog] A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Did you know how Tree-sitter's support for R help you get
✨ reformatting through Air and linting through Jarl;
✨ auto-completion or help on hover in the Positron IDE;
✨ better search for R on GitHub;
✨ and more!
By @maelle […]
By now it is obvious that AI has completely solved statistics and machine learning. So as the next step in the tidymodels journey we are moving into game development!
Introducing our first game!
emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidymodels-d...
📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you
📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues.
🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾
For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals
You might need to draw an axis without tick labels (at = NA?), then a separate axis without the axis (tick = FALSE and line = n)
Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -
Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process
Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF
Thanks so much to @geekygirldawn.bsky.social of #CHAOSS for the excellent #DeepDive on framing the value of #OpenSource efforts and the strategic use of metrics.
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYqG...
📖 chaoss.community/practitioner...
#AcademicOSS #AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky
‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:
PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026!
Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon.
Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026
To join the mailing list for conference updates, click: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th March 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week for a talk by Brooke Long-Fox @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social from Phoenix Bioinformatics, on “Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank” 💻
bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats
📢 New preprint out!
tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!
138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...
![Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidp3zjc4e2d44eanl64r6gctwkqlzkg2lvwl4gik7eyn4kownucxy)
Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.
Bazookasaurus
xkcd.com/3216/
Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements
doi.org/10.32942/X26...
📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!
Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27...
with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social
![Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiekjipovc32c7swnmikuv7iwyhcbd4glxlhzsvh4v5hmmoa6hx54q)
Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas
Dental Formulas
xkcd.com/3213/
🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New Research Article published in OPal 🔬
Tip dating supports a Middle Ordovician origin for total-group chondrichthyans and a rapid radiation of acanthodian-grade taxa
By Lorenzo Emanuele Morra
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future.
Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon laptop with a sticker of the Palaeoverse logo on the lid, alongside a picture of Natalie, wearing glasses and a white and green shirt.
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
📣 The useR! 2026 committee invites global R users and developers to submit abstracts for talks, panels, posters, and tutorials!
Submissions are peer-reviewed based on content and balance.
You're welcome to apply!
Find more at:
user2026.r-project.org/call/
#useR2026 #DataScience #Poland #Warsaw
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-...