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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸

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Associate Professor • Swansea University 🇬🇧 SNF-PRIMA Professor • Department of Paleontology • @UZH_en🇨🇭 Research Associate • STRI 🇵🇦 Paleontology | Ecology | Conservation 🦈 🇨🇴 catalinapimiento.com

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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 04/02/2026
We are delighted to announce that @pimientoc.bsky.social will be giving this year's Darwin Day Lecture. Her talk on the causes and consequences of extinctions in the oceans will be held on 11 February in GKT1 from 4-5pm. This will be followed by cheese and wine in the Zoology Museum. All welcome.
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New paper is out 🔓! We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns: - modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈 - small decline in the K/Pg 🤏 - a peak in the Eocene 🌄 - a long-term decline towards the present � www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very proud of @kristinakocakova.bsky.social's work, just published OA in Proceedings B. We found new extinction events amongst sharks and rays and negative age-dependency, which was persistent through time, regardless of extinction intensity.... 🧵👇
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Can't wait to the next CPEG&CPS in London in 2027! Just seeing this beautiful logo makes me excited. Mark your calendars! Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
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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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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Ocean Giants Through Time: Evolution and Ecology Intertwined
Throughout geological time, an intertwined relationship between ecology and evolution has enabled distant clades to attain gigantism. By synthesizing fossil and modern data, we identify key tipping po...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 14/10/2025
In our October issue: Perspective by Daniele Silvestro and Catalina Pimiento (@pimientoc.bsky.social) discusses the opportunities for AI to advance paleontological research. 🧪🌎 bit.ly/48ujlDn Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfm
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In time for #FossilFriday, a new paper by Jansen Smith and many paleontologists (including me) on what questions the field may focus on in the coming decade Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #paleontology
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Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Perspective explores the existing and potential applications of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research as well as offer guidelines on equitable and ethical use of artificial i...
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social
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CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 We are thrilled to announce that the preliminary program for the upcoming CPEG & CPB Conference is officially LIVE! 🎉 Check out the full list of talks, lightning talks, and poster sessions happening in just over a month! 👉 www.cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en/abstract.... #CPEGCPB25
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Program & Abstracts
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2025
WE GOT THIS! Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
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Dennis Hansen @dennish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Enjoy this classic, broken megalodon tooth from Scheuchzer's collection for this #FossilFriday - & prints of it from his books Piscium queruleae (1708; centre) & Physica sacra (1731; right). Both prints include a line to show/reconstruct the shape the whole tooth would have had. #SciArt #EarlyModern
A fossil shark tooth to the left, and two different copperplate prints of it to the right.
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Come join us in Swansea! We have a brand new masters program 🌊
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CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Extended deadlines and changes to keynote speakers! 🗓️ Abstract deadline EXTENDED: Feb 15th, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 4th circular with full details below! 👉https://cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25
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CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25
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| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
🚨🚨🚨 There is still time to submit your abstract to the BES Macro Cardiff conference! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
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BES Macro Cardiff conference, July 2024
A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers at any academic career stage in macroecology and/or macroevolution.
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Pimiento Research Group @pimientogroup.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🌊🦈 Hello Bluesky! We're super excited join this vibrant community. Our lab is dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of deep-time marine megafauna, with a special emphasis on sharks. Follow us for exciting updates and dives into the ancient oceans as we share our research journey. #Palaeontology
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John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.
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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨 📆Summer 2025 📍University of Zurich, Switzerland Visit the website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more www.cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
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| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🦋 Hello, Bluesky! Excited to join this fresh, decentralised platform! Taking the opportunity to share an event I’m really excited about: the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, happening in Zurich in 2025. Registration & abstract submission just opened! 👇
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