🚨 New Blog Post!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution senior editor Natalie cooper discusses the logistics and challenges of running a hackathon🖥️ 🌐

Read the blog here: buff.ly/CrL608A

Licensing Best Practices for the Sharing of Scientific Data - Creative Commons Creative Commons publishes the report Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data, a guide for researchers and data producers.

Today, we are sharing our newest report, "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data", which extends the open data practices originally designed for climate data in our 2023 report "Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data" to other disciplines.

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🚨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-...

BioSyst.EU 2026 A three-day conference celebrating European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin

Join us and our fellow European systematics associations in Uppsala, Sweden for the 4th BioSyst.EU meeting!

Dates: August 17-19, 2026

Abstract submission and early bird deadline: May 31st

Registration deadline: July 17th

Details: www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026

We hope to see there!

#BioSystEU2026

🚨 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....

The paper: Statistical and Structural Bias in Birth-Death Models by @phylieu.bsky.social & @omearabrian.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

This is lovely:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#science #biology

Postdoc In Meta-science Personal type: Scientific staff

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Humans could become the greatest driver of biosphere net gain in Earth history, but we are currently the second fastest driver of biosphere loss www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

The new Master's programme in Ecological Forecasting at UBT and JMU Würzburg is looking to employ six lecturers and a program coordinator!

For more information, please contact Prof. Steven Higgins (www.pfloek.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/higg...).

How do we connect fossil records with modern science?
The HFSP Frontier Workshop explores how AI, computation, and biology can work together to better understand evolution.

📣 Abstracts now open
🔗zurl.co/hfadL
📅17 Mai 2026

#HFSP #Evolution #Paleontology #AI 🧪 #sts

Position of interest for plant evolutionary biologists: two assistant professorships are now open in the System Earth Science (SES) department at Maastricht University!

Interested? See the details here, or visit the QR code: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Venlo-As...

Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!

(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)

Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing
landscape

Check out our last viewpoint in Bioscience:

In an asymmetric publishing system, citation are influenced by unconscious biases. Recognize them is necessary for a more balanced publishing landscape.

doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

BES Macro 2026 A British Ecological Society special interest group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career

The deadline for #BESMacro2026 registration (if you'd like to present) is rapidly approaching! Come hang out with us in Reading in July! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

PDRA positions at Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (York, UK)

These include four that I am involved with:
beta diversity change
ecosystem metrics
ecological monitoring & Indigenous and local knowledge
food system dynamics & biodiversity

sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Cover of the programme for the 2026 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival with a reconstruction of a pterosaur.

This year's programme for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival is now online at fossilfestival.com! A weekend packed with all sorts of events - talks, walks, displays and demos. I'll be there talking about #MaryAnning, of course, and leading a walk around the places she knew well. Hope to see you there!

📢 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

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

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

My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).

‼️🚨 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.

Congratulations Eileen! 🥳 Excited to read it 🤓

The Extinction Risk–Range Change Relationship: Evidence From the Fossil Record Aim Climate change is a major driver for the wave of species extinctions predicted for this century. Extinction risk assessments are often estimated from climate-driven reductions in the geographic .....

📢 Paper alert!
Excited to share the first publication of my PhD!😁

We analysed fossil occurrences of the last 23 Ma to understand how geographic range change relates to extinction risk.🌍🐚🪸🦈

Keen to learn more? Here is the paper:
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Congratulations Jordan! 🥳

Mental models of the sixth mass extinction reveal pathways for transformative sustainability action - Scientific Reports To address fundamental challenges to global sustainability posed by unprecedented biodiversity loss and the sixth mass extinction (SME), scientists advocate for transformative changes to systems, poli...

“Public understanding of the biodiversity crisis is largely unexplored

[In] a nationally representative UK survey

whilst only 28% of respondents had heard of the sixth mass extinction, 93% accepted the phenomenon once explained, with 95% attributing it to humans”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics

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

Durophagous Palatobaena, found to both sides of the extinction horizon, sitting on an extinct Basilemys with the mandatory T. rex skull in the background. Art by Joschua Knüppe

New paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Guilherme & I investigate dietary selectivity on turtle K/Pg extinction - durophagous turtles have higher survivorship probability. Beautiful art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social