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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are you publishing research using @paleodb.bsky.social? Tag us here so we can amplify your research!

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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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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still time to share your feedback! We want to hear from you!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Many modern biology studies rely on curated databases that scientists hardly notice until they are gone...Curation expertise, once lost, cannot be rebuilt quickly."

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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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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

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European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th May 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Alex Howard from Natural History Museum, London, on “Combining palaeontological, neontological, & spatial data to understand evolution through time and space using the ppgm R package”. bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A poster showing Dr Alex Howard advertising her upcoming talk: Combining palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space using the ppgm R package

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The New Paleobiology Database User Guide is here! This is the second edition of the volume designed to be a comprehensive guide for Paleobiology Database users -- escholarship.org/uc/item/9gg7...

Image of a world map with colored dots on it and a geological timescale below and the title "PaleoBios" at the top.

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just entered the amusingly named Chromeornis funkyi into the @paleodb.bsky.social. Etymology: "Funky Chromeo bird, in honor of the Chromeo Funklordz P-Thugg and Dave 1, who like many birds, make beautiful music. Pronounced crow-me-OR-niss funk-ee.".

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GBIF @gbif.org · 04/02/2026

1) Never smile at a crocodile 🐊 unless you're deep-diving into learning about its phylogenetic history! 🧬🤩 Modern crocodilian species belong to the Neosuchia clade, but there are currently many evolutionary knowledge gaps for this group.

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🚨 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...

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The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

✨ Calling all PalAss members & future members! ✨ 👉 Explore all opportunities here: palass.org/awards-grant... Not a PalAss member yet? You’re very welcome to join us! 🔗 palass.org/membership Please share with colleagues and students who might benefit 💬✨ #PalAss #grant #palaeontology #join

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In addition to the new forms we have created, new specialized data entry forms can be created by anyone using the new data input API and one can do bulk uploads from spreadsheets as well. If you are interested in either of these, please reach out for instructions & to get permission

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The new Occurrences form has a host of new features that highlight holotypes, allow you to delete entries, reidentify taxa, etc. Details on their use will be included in the updated User Guide as well which will be out soon!

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Did you know we have new data entry forms?! They're designed to make your life easier, we promise: The new Reference form allows you to enter a DOI which will (usually) retrieve pub data so you don't have to type it, and you can (and should!) now enter full author names instead of just initials.

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This new “PBDB 2.0” architecture will allow more rapid development of new functionality, including high quality specimen images through links to external image repositories, and a mechanism to meaningfully incorporate taxonomically cryptic organisms - trace fossils, early life, microbialites & more!

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Great news! A new NSF Geoinformatics grant to support the PBDB was funded in June of 2025! This will overhaul the technical underpinnings of PBDB, a necessary step for carrying the PBDB forward -- www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

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Award Details - NSF Award Search

Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.

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Hank Woolley @paleo-hank.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It’s finally out! Extremely pleased to share the last chapter of my dissertation to be published! In this study, we take a deep dive into the 242 million-year squamate 🦎🐍 fossil record to quantify factors that lead to the mostly fragmentary specimens in collections today: doi.org/10.1017/pab....

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Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Well, I clearly need to enter this into the Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social : but who is the author?

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Databases like @paleodb.bsky.social are cornerstones of palaeobiological research. Most are concentrated in the 'Global North', but the associated socio-economic advantages sadly do not make them infallible to financial and infrastructure challenges... (4/n)

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @climatesamwell.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social

Top: Plot showing variation in the estimated slopes of the palaeolatitudinal biodiversity gradient through time across the Phanerozoic (including data from Europe and North America) for 1000 km grid cells. Slopes are estimated as the coefficient of per-cell, stage-level SQS diversity on absolute palaeolatitude for individual stages. Triangle data points meet quality criteria; circles do not. Red points are significant; grey points are not. A blue ring around a data point indicates a post-extinction interval. Horizontal blue shaded region highlights slopes close to zero.
Bottom right: Plot illustrating the relationships between per-cell, stage-level diversity estimates and palaeolatitude aggregated across the entire
Phanerozoic, globally. Data point colours indicate palaeolatitude zone: blue triangles, low; green squares, mid; purple circles high latitude. Solid black line is ordinary least squares regression line; dashed line traces the 95th quantile for each latitudinal band.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Taphonomic controls on a multi-element marine skeletal fossil record onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @echinerd.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday

Top: Grid including illustrations (top row) and photographs (bottom row) of Palaeozoic echinoid fossils demonstrating examples of 5 taphonomic grades used in the paper. Left to right: TG1, MCZ:IP:103620, disarticulated spine and interambulacral plate of the archaeocidarid Archaeocidaris sp.; TG2, LACM 2020.1, pile of disarticulated interambulacral plates and spines from Archaeocidaris sp.; TG3, MCZ:IP:101936, fragment of a test of the palaechinid Maccoya intermedia showing ambulacral and interambulacral plates; TG4, YPM 26552, denuded test of the lepidesthid echinoid Lepidesthes colletti; TG5, NHMUK Pal E 76888, holotype of Archaeocidaris whatleyensis, an articulated test preserved with
covering spines; scale bars (with photographs) are 1 cm.
Bottom: Coloured plot showing the temporal distribution of taphonomic grades from the Ordovician (on the left) to the Permian. Vertical axis represents frequency of occurrence. Different colours indicate the 5 different taphonomic grades.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Diversification & disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @paleodb.bsky.social

Three photographs of fossil brachiopods, examples of key plectambonitoid taxa: taffiin Taffia from the Lower Ordovician of Alabama, USA (USNM 91586); leptellinid Leptelloidea from the Upper Ordovician of Baltica (NHMUK BB 5169); sowerbyellin Sowerbyella from the Upper Ordovician of Baltica (NHMUK BB 5149).
On the lower left, a plot showing the change in number of plectambonitoid brachipod genera through time (Tremadocian on the left to Eifelian on the right), with the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME) marked as a yellow vertical line.

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Sinjini Sinha @sinjinis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Enriching experience at the @paleodb.bsky.social workshop focused on mastering the core functions of this powerful database and research tool. Some highlights include- entering occurrence and taxonomic data, extracting data for analysis and visualization, and of course international networking!

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Convergent evolution among non-carnivorous, desert-dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae from the Cretaceous of Brazil onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @paleodb.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

On the left, two phylomorphospace plots showing the first two principal components for the dentary (top) and maxilla (bottom) of a group of theropods.Carnivores are shaded red, non-carnivores grey.
On the right, digital reconstructions from CT scan images of a left dentary of Berthasaura leopoldinae (MPCO.V 0121): at the top an isosurface of the bone in dorsal view, mirrored to show how a pair would be angled; at the bottom, a translucent model in lateral view with internal cavities highlighted in yellow.

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚨 Deadline extended to May 1st! 🚨 Be sure to get your applications in for this summer's introductory workshop to the PBDB ASAP! More details and application form here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

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Matthew E. Clapham @mclapham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Great opportunity, but - warning - may lead to you spending years of your life entering data...

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚 Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop! More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

Paleobiology Database Summer 2025 Workshop Application
Dates: June 2-5, 2025 (4 days)
Location: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New in #PapersinPalaeontology: Awakening Patagonia's sleeping sperm whale: a new description of the Early Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @paleodb.bsky.social

Photograph of a fossil skull (above), same with labels overlaid (below). Type material of Idiorophus patagonicus (MLP-PV-5-2) in ventral view. Scale bar (to left of upper image) is 10 cm. In the bottom left corner is a globe showing South America and an expanded detail of Chile and Argentina, with Patagonia shaded grey and the study area indicated with a black rectangle.

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

⛏️For people working on the Devonian, Carboniferous & Permian (=all the best periods). Deadline for abstract submission is April 1st. geotolosa2025.sciencesconf.org #geology #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoclimatology #paleozoic

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GEOTOLOSA 2025 - 20ème ICCP « International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permain » - Sciencesconf.org

Invitation

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Bouwe Reijenga @breijenga.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

New in @currentbiology.bsky.social Studies have found that fossil/molecular diversification rates scale with time, hinting at a disconnect between micro and macroevolution. We show that these trends are absent from the fossil record when controlling for sampling biases: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias

Negative scaling relationships between diversification rates and the duration of organismal groups occur in molecular phylogenetic and fossil data. This causes a disconnect between micro- and macroevo...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Taxonomic revision of the family Squalodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti): emptying the wastebasket of fragmentary holotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @paleodb.bsky.social

Two photographs of fossil cetacean skulls in lateral view. Above: the holotype of Eosqualodon langewieschei (Museum of Bünde specimen number 326). Below: Squalodon bellunensis (specimen number MGP 26131) in lateral view. Scale bars (on the right side) are both 10 cm.

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Jeff Wilson Mantilla @diapophysis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Yesterday one of my students taught me a couple of ways to sign “fossil” in ASL. The one on the right is evocative bc it’s the bone sign but buried. The one on the left is used more for plant fossils, apparently, and is meant to show an object on a slab. I love these!

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Are you looking to pursue a career in #Palaeontology? On our website you can find information on Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Masters and #PhD) courses, and articles on possible career paths within palaeontology: www.palass.org/careers

A photo by Lucas George Wendt (Unsplash) shows a plastic triceratops skeleton model seen through a magnifying lens. A book about dinosaurs in the background.

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! ✨ Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related 🌍🐚 Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! 🦕📊 paleobiodb.org

Image of the world showing fossil occurrences recorded in the Paleobiology Database as coloured dots with a geological timescale at the bottom

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