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...
~5 days left to apply
A picture of a small concretion (rock) with a white blob in the middle. this blob was described as the worlds oldest octopus and called Pohlsepia. Our research shows that hidden under the rock are teeth that confirm it is a nautiloid (a relative of modern nautiluses).
An artistic rendering of the rotting Pohlsepia on the seafloor 310 million years ago. Sharks, fish and arthropods lurk in the background
I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus...
Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Just a few days left to apply for these positions!
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
schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.
The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Congrats to @gwynchil.bsky.social on her first first-author publication in @paleosoc.bsky.social Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - based on her undergrad thesis w/ me at Williams, Gwyn finds that tiny worm teeth(scolecodonts) get smaller across the Late Devonian extinction event
fantastic! even more fantastically, can consider these subs models in #molecularclock dating. see a blog article "Late better than never: time to consider complex subs models in inferring div time" sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/l...
Graphical representation of the current database landscape and a possible idealized scenario for the structure of the palaeobiological database landscape.
Table 2 | A roadmap to sustainable funding
We can learn unimaginable amount of things bout the history of life, climate, geosystems and the processes of evolution from the fossil record. But we need strong database curation and financing infrastructure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
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Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
PhD position in integrative evolutionary biology at Lille University to study mollusks from Lake Tanganyika. Funding available for 3 years. Apply by April 5. Info: https://eep.univ-lille.fr/en/presentation-english/ #phd
Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
Did you know we offer free English language editing for authors submitting to Evolution and Evolution Letters? Simply send an email to our EELS program coordinator to get started!
www.evolutionsociety.org/publications...
@journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio!
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
I invite you to check our paper entitled “Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology” doi.org/10.1038/s415... in @natecoevo.nature.com about the Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology #USEB we organized in 2025.
#biology #evolution #school #science #Ukraine
✨ Calling all PalAss members & future members! ✨
👉 Explore all opportunities here: palass.org/awards-grant...
Not a PalAss member yet? You’re very welcome to join us!
🔗 palass.org/membership
Please share with colleagues and students who might benefit 💬✨
#PalAss #grant #palaeontology #join
New paper on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social: Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable? doi.org/10.64898/202...
@maxjtelford.bsky.social and I tried answering this question with two independent phylogenomic datasets.
(1/7) 🧪
Exciting news! Our invited perspectives in npj Biodiversity looks at how marine life bounced back after the worst mass extinction ever, the Permian‑Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) ~252M years ago. Big questions: fast or slow? recovery or restructure?
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Applications due Monday for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes high-quality evolution education resources! The recipient will have the opportunity to attend and present their work at the NABT meeting in October or #Evol2026 in June. Apply today! bit.ly/2kP2pPM
A professorship in Exogene Geodynamics opend up at our institute! Hoping to find a nice new colleague 😊 www.fau.eu/research/res...
Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Would love to see your syllabus! And/or share material!
Applications are now open for the 2026 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE)!
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Claudia Solis-Lemus and I will be holding an informational session on Zoom next Wed (1/21) from 10:30-11:30 AM Central for those interested:
lsu.zoom.us/j/4968115684
Deadline to apply: 1/26
Hiring a new professor in my department who specializes in Earth surface topics (e.g. climate, sediments, soils, oceans, etc). Non-germans welcome to apply-- the postdoctoral qualifications (e.g. habilitation) are just for German applicants.
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!
There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well. #biomech_sky
New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
Does anyone know any current or former recipients of an SNF mobility grant based in Germany? I'd be grateful for any leads!
The deadline to apply to the Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee has been extended to December 15!