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The Palaeo@Leeds Research Group is a multidisciplinary group of palaeobiologists, climate modellers, and geochemists based in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
⚠️Don't forget to join us today -  Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Palaeo@Leeds ECRs are awesome!
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts! lifeandplanet.com
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
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“A history of the world imperfectly kept”: Will we ever know how biodiversity has changed over deep time?
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Prof Alex Dunhill @profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Last week, Palaeo@Leeds PHR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her NERC funded research on the recovery of marine ecosystems following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction to the Leeds Geologists Association.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Got a spare evening on March 20th? Come and see Palaeo@Leeds PGR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social talk about her research on "Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction" with the Leeds Geological Society at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social leedsga.org.uk/event/ecosys...
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Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction - Leeds Geological Association
Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. Lecture given by Annabel Nichols, University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment. The Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME ~252Ma)...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Huge congratulations to our very Prof Ben Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social for becoming the UK Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering on the receipt of a highly prestigious Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. blavatnikawards.org/honorees/pro...
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Benjamin J.W. Mills | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Recognized for: Pioneering development of long-timescale models of the Earth, linking geology and biology, and giving insight into the linked atmospheric and geologic history of our habitable planet.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Palaeo@Leeds PGR @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writes about polytemporalism and her PhD project on how poetry can help us understand mass extinction events for the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...
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How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events
Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps. See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Schematic of plate tectonics showing different plate boundaries and the CO2 emissions from each type, reconstructed over 400 million years. Lower panel showing geogrpahic potisions of reactive continental lithologies over the same timeframe.
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Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds @envleeds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Professor Benjamin Mills is one of the finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the UK! 👏 He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution. www.linkedin.com/posts/blavat...
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Prof Alex Dunhill @profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social! www.palass.org/awards-grant...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Have a listen to Palaeo@Leeds postgrad @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social and Leeds-based palaeoartist James McKay talking about James' new book "Yorkshire's Amazing Dinosaurs" on local BBC Radio. 12 mins in... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Sile Sibanda - 21/02/2025 - BBC Sounds
Conversation and music for our African and Caribbean communities with Sile Sibanda.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Palaeo@Leeds researchers have been busy in the first month of 2025... check out our latest set of publications ranging from mass extinctions, biostratigraphy and geochronology, molluscan genomics, and marine geochemistry 🌋🪨☄️🌍⛏️🧬🦪⌛🌊🧪
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Excited to be speaking about marine deoxygenation in the past and future at EGU 2025. Please consider also submitting to the session!
Low effort copy-paste advert for EGU session 4.23: Deoxygenation events. literally copy pasted from the EGU website and marked up in MS paint.
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Prof Alex Dunhill @profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Had a great evening, speaking to @geologyglasgow.bsky.social about modelling fossil food webs across mass extinction and recovery for the @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology series. A really interesting group, full of questions and interesting stories. Thanks for having me folks!
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The Geological Society of Glasgow @geolsocglasgow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-... All welcome.
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Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction | Geological Society of Glasgow
Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We hosted the 1st CPEG back in 2018 in Leeds -- it's a brilliant conference. Anyone working on, or generally interested, in the interface between past and present ecology should register!
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our Exceptional Lecturer @dralexdunhill.bsky.social will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC in Oxford at PalaeoClub @ox.ac.uk. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/events or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Interested in marine palaeoecology? Looking for a funded PhD? Then apply to come to Leeds to study Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/arc...
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Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities   Professor Crispin Little, Professor Fiona Gill, Dr Stephen Hunter (all School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds); Dr Steffen Kiel (Department of ...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Palaeo@Leeds crew are on their way to #PalAss24 in Erlangen. Make sure you look out for posters by @sauropodlets.bsky.social ; @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social; @dralexdunhill.bsky.social & Lila Blake as well as a keynote symposium talk by @BaranKarapunar - all focusing on extinction 💀
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nice article about our recent 'cryptic carbon' paper: eos.org/articles/lar...
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Large Igneous Provinces May Have Leaked Cryptic Carbon - Eos
Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below the surface, contributing to prolonged warming.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
On December 16th, 2 of our Profs will be giving their inaugural lectures - Prof Ian Burke and Prof Rob Newton - these events are open to the public so please come along! environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-research... Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Inaugural lecture series
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Dr Lauren Burton @leb-climate.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The last supervision meeting of my PhD. Could not be more grateful to my wonderful supervisory team!
Four people sat at a table smiling towards the camera. A laptop on the table shows a fourth person smiling.
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Congrats to @barankarapunar.bsky.social & @bethanyjallen.bsky.social for getting their PRIME project funded by Paleosynthesis! www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...
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Prediction and Identification of Mass Extinctions Extinctions are a fundamental part of evolution…we are at the beginning of a contemporary mass extinction event. Project leaders are Extinctions are a...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Congrats to @barankarapunar.bsky.social & @bethanyjallen.bsky.social for getting their PRIME project funded by Paleosynthesis! www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...
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Prediction and Identification of Mass Extinctions Extinctions are a fundamental part of evolution…we are at the beginning of a contemporary mass extinction event. Project leaders are Extinctions are a...
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Palaeo@Leeds @palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Are you a postgraduate scientist looking for a PhD in palaeobiology, geochemistry or palaeoenvironments? Then look no further than these NERC YESDTN scholarship opportunities to come and work at Leeds with the Palaeo@Leeds cluster yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
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Palaeoenvironments and Palaentology Archives - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
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