Moriaki Yasuhara

Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved

We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.

Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France) The oldest known ostracods from a chemosynthetic community at a cold seep were recently described from an authigenic carbonate lens enclosed within the Upper Jurassic (middle Oxfordian) Terres Noires ...

Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France): sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)

Day three of the Deepwater Horizon work was a success. Unfortunately the red crabs still look like this…

Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…

Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Jansen's great leadership appreciated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

Here are the details of the shrinking bryozoan paper, as the dot doesn't seem to work.

Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay Abstract. The benthic ecosystem has been greatly altered by environmental pressure over the past several decades. Compared to some well-studied large bays, the situation in populated small bay areas i...

New! Huang et al. Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

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!

Thanks a lot Lee Hsiang! Lalita enjoyed the summer school very much!

Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article) Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.”

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SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone!
@jonscibulski.bsky.social

[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin!

@royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic Singh et al. reconstruct ocean biomass over the past 540 million years, finding a long-term rise from the Cambrian to the present, with dips during three of the five major mass extinctions. The biomas...

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Climate change outpaces trees: Forests face centuries-long lag in adaptation Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...

In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07...

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This makes me really sad: Richard was a great guy. Some of my best memories from my Smithsonian are from interacting with him.

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate Change www.scifac.hku.hk/news/forests...

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

Led by David Fastovich! Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...

A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Job Advertisement: Akademischer Rat / Akademische Rätin (A13) in Paleontology (f/m/d) Section Paleontology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit…

Senior postdoc position in Paleontology @nat.fau.de. Starting date negotiable between 1st of Octorber and 15th of December 2025.
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...

Wow!

@dsbsoc.bsky.social

New DOSI Climate collaboration just out! Gallo et al. Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

It's #ForamFriday! They're bizarre and beautiful, and their fossilized shells are a window into the past!

UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change.

Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data Abstract. Data on marine microfossil assemblage composition have multiple applications. Initially, they were primarily used for (chrono)stratigraphy and palaeoecology, but these data are now also wide...

Important! Jonkers et al Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...

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

🚨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-...