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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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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Please consider applying when live for our two roles at UCL, UK! Join an excellent, diverse and friendly team to drive forwards open science and learn lots of new skills!

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️18th December 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our last talk of 2025, given by @singerstone.bsky.social from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, on “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 🦬 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse lecture series. The flyer features a cartoon of a graph, illustrating orange fluctuating lines, varying across time bins. There is also a photo of Dr Cantalapiedra, who sits cross-legged on the floor, in a blue-grey T-shirt, brown trousers and black trainers. He sits next to a large animal bone.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🌟Continuing our Friday (afternoon) 🌟 Registration 🕐 13:00 – 18:00 📍 Portland Building Symposium: Experimental Palaeontology 🕒 13:30 – 17:15 📍 Portland Building, PO 1.74 Icebreaker Reception 🕠 17:30 – 19:30 📍 Portland Building Atrium & Richmond Building Atrium #PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Consider applying for the PhD project, if you're in the market, with two extremely great researchers and managers! I know it'll be fascinating and teach loads of useful skills!

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #PalAss25 #uk

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📣 Hey PalAss participants! The 2025 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth is getting closer 🦕📍 Just a quick reminder: If you’re tagging us on social media, don’t forget to use our official hashtag #PalAss25 🙌✨ Happy #FossilFriday! 🐚🦴

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Dr Orla Bath Enright @orlabe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship! Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @thepalass.bsky.social

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers! Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience. 🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn: ✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]

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Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider joining us on our mission to promote community open-access publishing in palaeontology.

Advert for Open Palaeontology Steering Committee Member

Advert for Open Palaeontology Managing Editor

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🎉 A few facts and figures about this year’s conference! We’re excited to welcome 275 delegates from every continent (except Antarctica 🐧). ✨ Here’s what awaits you: 📣 1 Annual Address 🧪 1 ECR Workshop & Social 🥂 1 Icebreaker Reception 🚌 1 Post-Conference Field Trip [1/2]

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word! openpalaeo.org @openpalaeo.bsky.social

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Managing Editor job advert

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Steering Committee job advert

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

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Save Geology at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Last week the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team published our new paper outlining steps for cleaning palaeobiological occurrence data. I'm really proud of this one; we even have a step-by-step run-through of data cleaning and an accompanying vignette. Thanks to the fantastic team! ⭐

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Winter 2025 talk schedule 👀 We’re excited to host talks from Drs Oskar Hagen, Carrie Tyler, @singerstone.bsky.social and Johannes De Groeve! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Flyer for the Winter schedule of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, usually the last Thursday of each month but with some dates moved this time to avoid public holidays. Scheduled for 3pm UTC.
30th October 2025 - Dr Oskar Hagen, Goethe University Frankfurt
“Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time”
20th November 2025 - Dr Carrie Tyler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs”
18th December 2025 - Dr Juan Cantalapiedra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
“Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory”
29th January 2026 - Dr Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam
“Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)”

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... ⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉 🔗 Registration link ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

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Welcome – Palaeoverse Workshops

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

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IUCN Red List Client

IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This week, Open Palaeontology published our first research article: a reassessment of the giant millipede-like Arthropleura by Lhéritier, Vallois and Durand! Thank you to the authors for being part of the open-access publishing revolution! www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...

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Re-assessment of Arthropleura from the Moscovian of Northern France: new anatomical information and adaptations to terrestrial environments | Open Palaeontology

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀 Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

A flyer for the Palaeoverse Lecture Series for Summer 2025
June 26th - Dr Katie Collins, Natural History Museum
“Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different”
July 31st - Summer break
August 28th - Amy Shipley, University of Leeds
“Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction”
September 25th - Dr Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, UC San Diego and Dr Russell Garwood, University of Manchester
“The Tree of Life and Death: What do fossil taxa contribute to morphological phylogenetics?”

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out! We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social! 📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨ 🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST 🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #webinar #June #palaeontology #career

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Don't miss a great opportunity—register for the Lecture Series organized by @palaeoverse.bsky.social Registration link ⬇️ bit.ly/palaeoverse-... #lecture #palaeontology #modelling

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🌟Members Exclusive!🌟 Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers. 🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST) Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Here is a little video I made for @thepalass.bsky.social. Its aimed at GCSE students and ties into the national curriculum. Lots more planned, if you want to be involved, give me a shout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7... Please share widely, like and subscribe!

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Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form?

YouTube video by The Palaeontological Association

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So happy to share our new preprint on cleaning and sharing palaeobiological occurrence data! This was such a great paper to work on, with a fantastic team! 🌟

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th January, 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST) For this month’s lecture, we will be joined by Dr Ádám Kocsis, presenting “The ‘rgplates’ interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects” Register here: t.co/nkPis8u8JK

A blue flyer showing the timing, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. Dr Ádám Kocsis, a bearded man, is shown standing in a black coat.

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸 PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...

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Lessons from the past: predicting the tropicalisation of marine communities | TREES DLA

Global climate change is warming temperate coastal waters, causing ecological disturbances and range shifts of marine organisms. Recently, hermatypic corals (reef-building corals) have expanded polewa...

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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

🚨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

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Check out Open Palaeontology, for a flexible DOA palaeontology journal, community run and led! We're open for submissions, come chat to us at #PalAss2025! 🌟

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🚨PALAEOVERSE LECTURE SERIES🚨 Join us next week for Dr Roxanne Banker's lecture on "Quantitative approaches to understanding marine ecosystems: Insights from Steller's Sea Cow and ancient food webs" 21st November 2024, 15:00 UTC (10:00 EST) Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-... #palaeobiology #RStats

A flyer for the next edition of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. Aside from the above details, Dr Banker, from Providence College, is shown wearing a top with seashells and corals on.

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