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Madlen Stange @mstange.bsky.social · 2h

Extreme female philopatry in Pachypus beetles reveals 14 cryptic species!
🧬 Our study shows ancient speciation (5.3mya) despite limited dispersal, linked to the Messinian salinity crisis. Integrative taxonomy uncovers hidden diversity. #Taxonomy #Genetics url: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

Cryptic species can be phylogenetically old despite strong sex-biased dispersal

Abstract. The impact of strongly differentiated populations on species delimitation due to limited or sex-biased dispersal remains challenging and under-ex

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 1d

🦕 For #PalAss members:
Are you planning to participate in #PalAss2025? 🌍
Don’t forget to check this option ✅

💡 All information can be found here ⬇️
🔗 palass.org/palaeontolog...

#palass #conference #bursary #possibility #apply

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Last call!
Bayesian phylogenetic inference with BEAST2

📅 October 27 th – November 7th, 2025
💻 Online

#TScourses #KeepLearning

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 4d

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 12d

The first #leech body #fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years

peerj.com/articles/199...

@peerj.bsky.social #Annelida

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 13d

10 years ago, our co-edited Topics in Geobiology volumes on #Ammonoid #Paleobiology came out:

From anatomy to ecology:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
From macroevolution to paleogeography: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

In the last months of 2025, i will explore new discoveries on these topics in a thread:

Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology

This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the origin and later evolution of this important clade, and we deliver hypotheses on its demise. The Ammonoidea produced a great number of species that can be used in biostratigraphy and possibly, this is the macrofossil group, which has been used the most for that purpose. Nevertheless, many aspects of their anatomy, mode of life, development or paleobiogeographic distribution are still poorly known. Themes treated are biostratigraphy, paleoecology, paleoenvironment, paleobiogeography, evolution, phylogeny, and ontogeny. Advances such as an explosion of new information about ammonites, new technologies such as isotopic analysis, tomography and virtual paleontology in general, as well as continuous discovery of newfossil finds have given us the opportunity to present a comprehensive and timely "state of the art" compilation. Moreover, it also points the way for future studies to further enhance our understanding of this endlessly fascinating group of organisms.

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 18d

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

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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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 18d

Another years-long project I was a working group co-leader was published today as well!

Me, @lepidodendron.bsky.social and @rachelwarnock.bsky.social co-led the phylogenetics group and I had such a formative experience! ⚒️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

www.cambridge.org

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 19d

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 21d

When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time

Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 23d

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

jobs.open.ac.uk

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 27d

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️

This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year.

Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Picture of a smiling Ichthyostega called Kevin. He is a chonk.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Sep 10

⚠️ 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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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · Sep 3

What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

News

PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…

daveyfwright.wordpress.com

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Aug 29

We're looking for an applied mineralogist here in Erlangen! Earth Sci folk - please share the word! 🔨 🪨 💎
www.fau.eu/people/worki...

Professorships

Check which professorships are currently vacant at FAU. Deadlines and contact details are listed in each call for applications. The online application process is straightforward through the…

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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · Aug 22

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Aug 19

Extremely proud to be part of this project integrating stratigraphic paleobiology with phylogenetics. Go and chat to Nik if you’re at #ESEB25 or check out his poster via the link below!

Niklas Hohmann @niklashohmann.bsky.social · Aug 19

Geological information improves phylogenetic inference 🥳
Excited to present our work on the interactions of #stratigraphy, #paleontology, and #phylogenetics at #ESEB25, poster board 312
@eseb2025.bsky.social @rachelwarnock.bsky.social

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Aug 7

It posted more than a week ago, but I finally find time to share my work with @iochromaland.bsky.social and @rociodeanna.bsky.social on the divergence times of Solanaceae! It has been one of the greatest collaborations in my lifetime with two inspiring scientists! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total evidence timetree analysis

Background and Aims The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown age ranging from ca. 30 to 70 Mya (mid-Oligocene to late...

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is exactly what I'm looking for!

Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you! It looks like everything is also on a nifty website: insightsfromdata.io/index.html

Companion Website — Insights from Data with R

Welcome!

insightsfromdata.io

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Jul 29

It is indeed. Thanks for the tip Pete!
For anyone else interested:
stratigrafia.org/software/ind...

UGA Stratigraphy Lab

stratigrafia.org

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Jul 29

hello gang, can anyone recommend resources for teaching programming in R to 1st year undergrads in geoscience? All and any tips welcome! 👩‍💻🐚📈

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Jul 2

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🧪

Women may be discouraged from becoming climate scientists if they perceive the field as male-biased, but little is known about gender in climate science. An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success, and connectedness with other scientists, and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers, which leads to cumulatively fewer publications.

Scholars have long been concerned about gender representation in scientific research but there has been little work on gender differences in participation and performance in climate science, a field that engages with both male-majority disciplines (e.g., geosciences, engineering) and female-majority disciplines (e.g., life sciences, medical science). This has implications for both gender equity and viewpoint representation. Sampling over 400,000 publications and a similar number of authors, we examine gender differences in several scholarly outcomes including publication count, career survival, coauthor gender, journal status, and mean citation count. We find men and women are similarly productive, successful, and connected, though women have shorter research careers and thus fewer papers. We also find gender homophily effects in collaboration, but no evidence of gender bias in peer review.

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