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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️20th November 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from Dr Carrie Tyler from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 🎣

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a yellow cartoon trilobite following a trail of small cubes. There is also a picture of Dr Tyler, wearing a teal and black scarf and smiling into the camera.
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🎉 This #FossilFriday we’re happy to share our new paper! 🎉

We take readers through 10 key steps for cleaning palaeontological data ready for computational analyses 🦕🧽

There’s also an R vignette showing you how to put these steps into practice! 💻

Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/pala...
A schematic showing “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data im palaeobiology”, each illustrated with a cartoon and arranged around three key processes, in circles. The first stage is Project setup. Here we have: 1. Choose the right data for your question, with a cartoon of an arrow in a bullseye 2. Keep raw data raw, with a cartoon of a hand next to a small ‘no entry’ sign 3. Document your workflow, next to a cartoon of two stacked papers with writing on The second stage is Data exploration & cleaning, which can be performed iteratively: 4. Explore your data, with a cartoon of a magnifying glass over a normal distribution 5. Identify and handle incomplete data records, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, all filled except the one in the bottom right, which is outlined 6. Identify and handle outliers, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, where the one in the bottom right is larger and extends beyond the others 7. Identify and handle inconsistencies, with a cartoon showing three squares in a larger square, with the bottom right quadrant instead featuring a triangle 8. Identify and handle duplicates, with a cartoon showing an opaque square stacked over a transparent (edge only) square The final stage is Reporting and archiving: 9. Report your data and cleaning efforts, with a cartoon of a loudspeaker 10. Deposit your data and workflow, with a cartoon of a safe
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon landscape with a river and trees, overlying a grid showing how the system might be simulated across space. There is also a picture of Dr Oskar Hagen, wearing a white shirt and navy suit jacket, smiling into the camera.
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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🚨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)”
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a yellow cartoon trilobite, and pictures of Drs. Mongiardino Koch and Garwood. Mongiardino Koch wears a grey t-shirt and glasses, while Garwood wears a white shirt and is holding a glass trophy.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🚨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-...
A flyer for the next edition of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on the back, and a picture of Amy Shipley, wearing a denim jacket and with sunglasses on her head, smiling into the camera
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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If you are attending @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social and would like to hear more about the palaeoverse R package, come and speak to us at our poster today! We got the coolest spot in the museum 😎🦕
A poster describing the palaeoverse R package beneath a Diplodocus skeleton
July 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩
William Gearty presents some advanced topics when using GitHub Lewis Jones discusses different approaches for dealing with missing data Harriet Drage feeds back suggestions from the group, written on post-its, on the opportunities and difficulties of archiving data and code A group picture of the workshop leaders and participants in front of a fresco at the University of Zurich
July 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on, and a picture of Dr Collins with pink hair, wearing glasses and a checked shirt
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🚨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?”
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next lecture in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon laptop with a picture of Dr Hsiang smiling, wearing glasses with a checked top and white collar
May 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the Palaeoverse lecture series, featuring a cartoon geology toolkit and a photo of Dr Stockey in a brown hat and dark fleece
April 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️27th March 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week we will hear from Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, on “FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse Lecture series, featuring a picture of Dr Ondřej Mottl, wearing a checked shirt and smiling into the camera
March 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️27th February, 16:00 UTC

Next week we are looking forward to hosting Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, who will give a talk on “DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models”

Don’t miss it! Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer showing the time, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. The flyer also includes a picture of Dr Xia Wang, dressed in a dark hoodie and holding a camera.
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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We’d like to announce the Spring 2025 line-up of the
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
Don’t miss these four excellent speakers! Register for a Zoom link here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
Flyer outlining the upcoming talks of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. February 27th, Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, will present ‘DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models’ March 27th, Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, will present ‘FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis’ April 24th, Dr Richard Stockey from University of Southampton, will present ‘Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models’ May 29th, Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, will present ‘Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning’
February 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🚨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.
January 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🚨PALAEOVERSE LECTURE SERIES🚨

Next Thursday, we'll hear from Dr Thomas Guillerme with a talk titled "Top 10 best disparity metrics to use in palaeobiology; #10 might surprise you!"

📅 Dec 19, 2024
⏰ 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST)

Register ➡️ bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

#palaeobiology #RStats
A flyer describing the date, time and title of the next Palaeoverse lecture, alongside a picture of Thomas Guillerme with a koala
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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🚨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.
November 13, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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🚨PALAEOVERSE LECTURE SERIES🚨
One week to go until Niklas Hohmann's lecture on "Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R"
Date: 31st October 2024
Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)
Don't forget to register! bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
#palaeobiology #RStats
A flyer showing a picture of Niklas next to his talk time and title
October 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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📢 palaeoverse 1.4.0 is live on #CRAN!
New this version:
- palaeorotate() - Added TorsvikCocks2017 model
- palaeorotate() - Improved rotation files resolution
- lat_bins() - replaced by lat_bins_degrees()
- lat_bins_area() added
- tibble-friendly functions
#rstats #palaeoverse
The palaeoverse R package logo, showing a dinosaur exploring the world above layers of fossils below ground
October 17, 2024 at 8:38 AM