We are delighted to announce that @pimientoc.bsky.social will be giving this year's Darwin Day Lecture. Her talk on the causes and consequences of extinctions in the oceans will be held on 11 February in GKT1 from 4-5pm. This will be followed by cheese and wine in the Zoology Museum. All welcome.

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...

Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years Abstract. Understanding extinction mechanisms, including what traits make some species more vulnerable than others, is key in a changing world. It has been

link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Very proud of @kristinakocakova.bsky.social's work, just published OA in Proceedings B. We found new extinction events amongst sharks and rays and negative age-dependency, which was persistent through time, regardless of extinction intensity.... 🧵👇

Can't wait to the next CPEG&CPS in London in 2027! Just seeing this beautiful logo makes me excited. Mark your calendars! Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions

Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds

Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Save Geology at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

Ocean Giants Through Time: Evolution and Ecology Intertwined Throughout geological time, an intertwined relationship between ecology and evolution has enabled distant clades to attain gigantism. By synthesizing fossil and modern data, we identify key tipping po...

Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

In our October issue: Perspective by Daniele Silvestro and Catalina Pimiento (@pimientoc.bsky.social) discusses the opportunities for AI to advance paleontological research. 🧪🌎
bit.ly/48ujlDn
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfm

In time for #FossilFriday, a new paper by Jansen Smith and many paleontologists (including me) on what questions the field may focus on in the coming decade

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research - Nature Reviews Biodiversity This Perspective explores the existing and potential applications of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research as well as offer guidelines on equitable and ethical use of artificial i...

Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#AI #paleontology

*2025!

No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social

🚨 We are thrilled to announce that the preliminary program for the upcoming CPEG & CPB Conference is officially LIVE! 🎉

Check out the full list of talks, lightning talks, and poster sessions happening in just over a month!

👉 www.cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en/abstract....

#CPEGCPB25

WE GOT THIS!

Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.

A fossil shark tooth to the left, and two different copperplate prints of it to the right.

Enjoy this classic, broken megalodon tooth from Scheuchzer's collection for this #FossilFriday - & prints of it from his books Piscium queruleae (1708; centre) & Physica sacra (1731; right). Both prints include a line to show/reconstruct the shape the whole tooth would have had. #SciArt #EarlyModern

Come join us in Swansea! We have a brand new masters program 🌊

🚨 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

Please 🔁 @thepalass.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social @palaeoverse.bsky.social @paulharnik.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @sethf.bsky.social @floridamuseum.bsky.social @whitenacklab.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @djbirddanerd.bsky.social @chrishall.bsky.social @dennish.bsky.social

🚨 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

BES Macro Cardiff conference, July 2024 A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers at any academic career stage in macroecology and/or macroevolution.

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There is still time to submit your abstract to the BES Macro Cardiff conference!
👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

🌊🦈 Hello Bluesky! We're super excited join this vibrant community. Our lab is dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of deep-time marine megafauna, with a special emphasis on sharks. Follow us for exciting updates and dives into the ancient oceans as we share our research journey. #Palaeontology

*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.

🚨Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨

📆Summer 2025
📍University of Zurich, Switzerland

Visit the website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more
www.cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html

🦋 Hello, Bluesky! Excited to join this fresh, decentralised platform!

Taking the opportunity to share an event I’m really excited about: the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, happening in Zurich in 2025.

Registration & abstract submission just opened! 👇