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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🟢 As part of our Green Computing series, we are pleased to share An Introductory Guide to Green Computing for Software Developers, written by Anica Araneta and Alison Kennedy. Find out more and access the guide at www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Will Pearse @willpearse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our global analysis of ecosystem functions and services is online now! This is probably the paper I'm most proud of - a quantitative, global map of every one of the IPBES ecosystem service categories, all tracked back to the original data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🌉 Registration is now open for the next Research Software Camp (RSC), which will be delivered as a multi-session event over the course of two weeks from 26 October to 6 November. Find out more about all the available sessions at www.software.ac.uk/news/registr...

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UK friends: Apply for the @prideinstem.bsky.social small grant scheme until October 30th (Halloween is the holiday of our people, after all). The theme is "Empowering Queer People With STEM", and grants of £1,000 will be awarded in late 2026. Spread the word! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

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Small Grant Scheme 2026 | Pride in STEM

Pride in STEM is once again funding our “Small Grants” Programme.This year’s theme will be “Empowering Queer People With STEM”.

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on "Reducing uncertainty in the impact of climate on biodiversity" 🔗 unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red... 🗓️ Deadline: 13th January 2027

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Reducing uncertainty in the impact of climate on biodiversity – Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new preprint w/ @landismj.bsky.social that I’m excited to share! We develop a theoretical framework linking evolutionary scenarios to mathematical constraints on parameters that produce given stationary frequencies in state-dependent speciation-extinction models. We call these “rulesets.” #EvoBio

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PARADIVE UW @paleoparadive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦠 We're hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join the PARADIVE lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469223

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Assistant Professor (post-doc) - Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (WB-KG-15/2026)

The position of Assistant Professor in the programme/project/undertaking The impact of mass extinctions on parasite diversity and evolution.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@profalexdunhill.bsky.social is particularly proud of ‘Dino-Brexit’ www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016...

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New preprint led by grad student Caleb Charpentier that I'm very excited about! This is a hefty review & perspective on how we can close the gap in trust between new "Deep comparative methods", and the biological meaning & inferences that systematists want. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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On the Promise (and Practice) of Deep Comparative Methods: Expressivity, Limitations, and Design

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear members, 🦴 The PalAss is pleased to be supporting a three-day Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop with the Systematics Association and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK. ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #workshop

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢 Hiring! PAGES (Past Global Changes) is seeking a Data Science Officer in Bern, Switzerland. Work with paleoscience data, reproducible workflows, FAIR/LiPD, statistics, ML & AI. Review starts 2 Nov 2026. Details & apply: pastglobalchanges.org/news/we-are-...

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We are hiring! | PAGES

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Love to see ecology and conservation being combined with local languages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦪 Really highlights the importance of including languages beyond English in our research! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

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Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich @eth-eaps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z... Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.

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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (www.eaps.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned position.

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Lizzy Steell @lizzysteell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 New bird paper! 🚨 Take a look at our review paper that Juan Benito and I put together about avian systematics and the bird fossil record along with what we think are important future directions in the field 🐦 🦴 🦜🦅🦤 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️24th September 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Next Thursday, Emilia Jarochowska from Utrecht University will talk about “CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

A flyer advertising Dr Emilia Jarowchowska and her talk entitled: CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology. There is an image of coding on a laptop and Emilia is holding up a fossil.

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever wondered which characters support individual clades in a tree? My new method maps phylogenetic support across a dataset. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Try it in R: pak::pkg_install("ms609/TreeSearch@cpp-search") ?TreeSearch::ClusteringConcordance

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroevolution and Macroecology

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 For PalAss members: 📅 Save the date! Our next ECR webinar, A Complete Conference Guide, will be full of advice on preparing and delivering your presentations 🎤✨ 📆 Coming up on the 9th November 2026. Would you like to become a PalAss member? Join us: palass.org #webinar #PalAss

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The PROGressive PHYLOgenetics LAB is now officially open and I'm looking to hire at all levels!! If you are interested in phylogenetics and macroevolution, and enjoy any/all of the following: fossils, morphology, genomics, simulations, or method development, please reach out to me :)

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join us in Heidelberg for the "Future of Sustainable Computing Symposium" free registration, remote participation is possible: thefutureofsuscomp2026.h-its.org Speakers: Ivona Brandic Florina M. Ciorba Thaleia Dimitra Doudali Loïc Lannelongue Matteo Mendula August Ning Emma Strubell Klervie Toczé

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Candidates will seek to address the following fundamental question: how do geological processes affect biodiversity?”

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

⚠️BIOINFORMATCIS JOB ALERT⚠️ Come and join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social We are recruiting a Lecturer in Bioinformatics. Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Please feel free to get in touch if you are interested!

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you so much who came to watch my Palaeoverse lecture! Here's a link for anyone that's interested and couldn't catch it live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfi... Also, if you'd like to go through the tutorial I worked through during the lecture: brpetrucc.github.io/tutorials/sr...

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Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Bruno do Rosario Petrucci - Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with..

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New paper w/ @astigall.bsky.social! 🧪 "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages" Link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ngnZ73N~L...

Manuscript title of a P^3 paper that says: "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages"

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The effects of different kinds of fossil record biases on the trait statistics inference: "We find that biological and taxonomic filters strongly skew these inferences, while spatial filters do not significantly distort them." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Consecutivesimulationapproach.Fromthecurrentdistribution(Original) and most recent time-calibrated tree (Phylogeny) of mammals, species are sequentially filtered out according to sediment availability (Sediments), species traits (Range size, Body size), and sampling biases (Spatial, Taxonomic—whole families or weighted—) under three preservation rates (25%, 50%, 75%) respect to the previous step.

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2026 SORTEE Conference Plenary speakers announced — Dr Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) & Dr Tatsuya Amano (UQ)! Program & registration now open. New this year: microgrants for conference barriers, apply by Sept 6. Details available here: sortee.org/upcoming/ See you in October!

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society

Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A short letter highlighting the value - and the fragility - of biological databases. "Curation expertise, once lost, cannot be rebuilt quickly"(think about taxonomy). Among the problems driving this fragility: "universities reward publications over stewardship" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects

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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📢 #WeAreSeeking a Digital Delivery Manager. Passionate about delivering great digital projects that make a real difference? bit.ly/JNCCjob2026051 ⭐Hybrid working role with a base in Peterborough, Aberdeen or Cardiff ⭐Permanent contract ⭐£41,525 ⭐Closing date 20 Sept 2026 #Digital #JobOpportunity

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Falling speciation is consistent with niche-filling following extinction, but increasing extinction may indicate a role for neutral dynamics during radiation. Cryptic diversification may be evidenced by a peak earlier than inferred using phylogenetic estimates." 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #PaleoBio

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

A flyer advertising Bruno do Rosario Petrucci's upcoming Palaeoverse Lecture Series talk on the 27th August 15:00 UTC entitled Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy. Bruno is pictured next to a laptop showing a budding phylogeny.

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our new Zulip community workspace is live! This is a place to connect with other palaeontologists and discover/share: 👩‍💻 Upcoming conferences & workshops 💼 Job opportunities 📄 Publications 💰 Grants & funding prospects 📚 Resources (e.g. books & websites) Join here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...

A flyer advertising the new Palaeoverse Zulip workspace: Join our new community workspace on Zulip! A place to connect with fellow palaeontologists, share the latest news, and discover new research, opportunities, events, and more!

Upcoming conferences and workshops.
Job opportunities.
New publications.
Grants and funding opportunities.
Resources such as books, talks, and course materials.

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Erin Dillon @erinmdillon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How many #sharks should there be on a coral #reef? Our new publication in Science tackles this question using thousands of fossil shark dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like scales that are shed and preserve in sediments—from Panama's two oceans. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Survey time - we want to hear from YOU! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses @paleodb.bsky.social and will help shape future work on the database. Browsed Navigator once? Entered 1,342 taxa? Either way, we want your feedback! forms.gle/GFZukC1koFAb...

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Paleobiology Database (PBDB) User Community Survey

Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your experiences and insights with the Paleobiology Database team! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses the PBDB ...

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