The editorial board of Geobios aims to support 2 early career researchers (PhD or postdoc) in #palaeontology, #palaeobiology, #palaeoecology, #palaeobiogeography, (bio) #stratigraphy or #biogeochemistry.
Each award is 500€. Deadline May 31. All the information: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geob...
Members of our #palaeobiology group explored the World of the #Witcher in an Easter board game evening 🎲⚔️🐺
com/humans-closest-invertebrate-ancestors-date-back-much-further-than-thought-how-we-discovered-the-fossils-that-show-this-279793 #evolution #palaeobiology #science #biology #STEM
How Did Animals Conquer the Deep Sea? Mussels & Clams Point to Two Different Strategies. Research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats & didn’t. www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation... via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #Palaeobiology #genomics #science #SciChat
Really appreciate this thoughtful review of #Macroevolution -aries, my and @nilese.bsky.social 's @columbiaup.bsky.social 📕 by @adrian-currie.bsky.social in @qrb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/738777 #paleobiology #palaeobiology #paleontology #palaeontology
United by chewing: Hunter-Schreger band-like pattern and wavy enamel in a fossil crocodile suggest functional convergence with mammals and dinosaurs #ProcB #OpenAccess #Palaeobiology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation Samples (for both vegetation plots and fossil pollen archives). Note that this is overview of current state of VegVault (v1.0.0.). A: Spatial distribution with each point representing one plot. B: Temporal distribution of individual Samples
5/🧵 Scale check 🤯🌍
480k datasets, >13M samples, >100k taxa + millions of trait values — spanning space and millennia. This is what “macro-ecology across time” should feel like 😎
🔗 ondrejmottl.github.io/VegVault/web...
#Global #Palaeobiology
Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna #ProcB #OpenAccess #Palaeobiology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Just over one month left to apply for this PhD project! ⬇️
#corals #dispersal #fossils #macroecology #macroevolution #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeobiology #paleobiology #palaeoceanography #paleoceanography #palaeogeography #paleogeography
Exciting new #PhD studentship available on flowering plant & insect #evolution in South America 🌺🐝 across the Cenozoic using biodiversity & #palaeoclimate modelling 🖥️
Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!
See below for more project & application info ⬇️
From the vault: my double life-size #Morganucodon model (2017), for the University of Bristol #Palaeobiology Research Group & National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. There was a lot of fun debate about what size & shape the ear pinna should be!
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #Triassic
🚨Job Alert! 🚨 Lecturer, The Open University.
#sedimentology, geological time,
#palaeobiology, paleoenvironmental change / palaeoenvironments,
#geosciences challenges and resources.
⚒️🧪 #geology
Predation by shell-breaking #crabs on a marine gastropod along a latitudinal gradient in the southwestern Atlantic: influence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors #ProcB #Palaeobiology #Ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Diverging trends in erythrocyte size elucidate cardiovascular evolution in stem #dinosaurs and #crocodilians #ProcB #Palaeobiology #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#Postdoctoral Position – University of Oxford, UK
Focus: Extinction Selectivity in #Palaeobiology
Eligibility: PhD in #EarthSciences / Palaeobiology
Salary: £38,674–£40,855
Deadline: 11 Sept 2025
🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoc-pala...
#PostdocJobs #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
#TScourses #KeepLearning #MorphologicalDisparity #EvoDevo #Palaeobiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Palaeontology #EvolutionarySciences #DataAanlysis #Evolution #Paleontology #QuantitativeMorphology #Morphometrics #Evolution 🦴📊
I was really looking forward to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social but unfortunately can’t make it anymore. Hope to catch up later, but if you’ve got any #conservation #palaeobiology papers please do submit them to @natecoevo.nature.com! Or drop me a message to discuss
#BiologyLetters Marking the 200th anniversary of the naming of Megalosaurus, Paul Barrett and Susannah Maidment have curated a Special issue for Biology Letters on Dinosaur Science: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #dinosaurs #evolution #palaeobiology
Enjoying learning about #fossil distributions, cool ancient sand dollars and more at the #Palaeobiology session! #Evol2025
I really Iove this new paper & I'll be coming back to it often. Takes us a step forward in understanding avian responses to climate change AND bird distributions in the past - including in relation to human settlements.
🪶🌐🌎 #ornithology #SpeciesOnTheMove #Conservation #Zooarchaeology #palaeobiology
Simplified flowchart illustrating generalised steps in palaeobiological research processes and the various factors that introduce inequity with regard to data collection, storage, study, analysis, publication, and reuse.
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
A lego minifigure of Dorothy Bishop with a laptop, which is a 'Doscar' award for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize, held in an open hand, in front of a laptop screen with visible text "Welcome to the Paleoverse"
Lewis Jones, a smiling brown haired man, holding the lego minifigure of Dorothy Bishop (the 'Doscar' award for UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize) out in front of him.
Great to see Lewis Jones received his Doscar as one of the winners of the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for his work on the Paleoverse (palaeoverse.org) a community space improving reproducibility in palaeobiological research.
#Palaeobiology #Reproducibility #OpenResearch #Research
New ovulate cupule further informs the relationships among early seed #plants and their adaptation to wind #pollination #ProcB #Palaeobiology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation Samples (for both vegetation plots and fossil pollen archives). Note that this is overview of current state of VegVault (v1.0.0.). A: Spatial distribution with each point representing one plot. B: Temporal distribution of individual Samples.
3/🧵 What’s inside? 📂
📌 110 GB of data
📌 480,000+ datasets
📌 13M+ samples
📌 110,000+ taxa
📌 11M+ trait values
📌 8 abiotic variables
All stored in an interconnected SQLite database with 29 tables & 87 variables.
🔗 Access: bit.ly/VegVault
#Global #Palaeobiology
(3/n)
Abstract submission until 7th March
We are set up in the Animal group, but we are open to abstracts from #plant and #cell #palaeobiology!
We hope to have a diverse array of submissions and speakers - and we are also seeking funding for un-funded attendees (e.g. Master's students)
🚨New preprint!🚨
“Global plate model choice impacts reconstructions of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient” out now @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with @willgearty.bsky.social, @lucasbuffan.bsky.social, and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#palaeobiology #palaeontology
(3/n)
I want to thank my new promoters Sam Van Wassenbergh🐤🐟🐸 & Olivier Lambert🐋🐬 for their support during my application. I am very much looking forward to continuing my work on functional #morphology and #experimental #palaeobiology alongside collaborators within and outside the FUNMORPH lab!
A flyer describing the date, time and title of the next Palaeoverse lecture, alongside a picture of Thomas Guillerme with a koala
🚨PALAEOVERSE LECTURE SERIES🚨
Next Thursday, we'll hear from Dr Thomas Guillerme with a talk titled "Top 10 best disparity metrics to use in palaeobiology; #10 might surprise you!"
📅 Dec 19, 2024
⏰ 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST)
Register ➡️ bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
#palaeobiology #RStats
🚨NEW JOURNAL?!?🚨
Open Palaeontology is now live! - A Diamond #OpenAccess journal focused on providing a flexible, free, and accessible platform for publishing palaeontological research! 🦕🐚🦴
Want to know more?🔗 www.openpalaeo.org
We look forward to your submissions!
#Palaeontology #Palaeobiology
If you missed Dr Roxanne Bankers's fantastic lecture yesterday on 'Quantitative approaches to understanding marine ecosystems', you can now catch up over on our YouTube channel! 💻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4z...
#Palaeontology #Palaeobiology #Palaeoecology
