🚨 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....
🚨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-...
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-...
⏰ Abstract Submission Deadline: 16th April ⏰
Don’t miss the opportunity to present your work at the ProgPal 2026 conference! 🦖✨
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📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026
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!
📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026
Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming
SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/
📢 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
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
‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:
PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
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Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
📢 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....
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
Submit your proposals for our new special feature!
It aims to examine time-dependency in evolution across scales, exploring empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🌍 🧪
Find out more👉https://buff.ly/dgxI6YD
🔊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...
The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!
🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
Next week I’ll be talking about how FAIR data enables open, reproducible paleontology, and how MorphoBank V4 is helping make that possible. If you're thinking about open science, data reuse, or the future of paleontological data, I would love for you to join the conversation.
🚨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!
🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓
fau-earth-system-science.github.io starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available
Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements
doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Last Wednesday we ran a workshop at VCWAP! A great opportunity to discuss how open science can help build and support our scientific communities 👩💻♻️
📢 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
🚨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...
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-...
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-...
🚨 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...
🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️
Find it here👇️
buff.ly/10TeNok
@nhcooper123.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
[blog] Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant 🎉 🦴
Palaeoverse is a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology (The Palaeoverse toolkit). 🐊🦕🌿🪸🦑
Will Gearty and The Palaeoverse Team are excited to announce funding from the Software […]
📢 Abstract submission for IPC7 is now open!
We invite researchers to submit their abstracts through our web
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.ipc7.site
#IPC7 #Paleontology #AbstractSubmission #CapeTown