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29.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last week the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team published our new paper outlining steps for cleaning palaeobiological occurrence data. I'm really proud of this one; we even have a step-by-step run-through of data cleaning and an accompanying vignette. Thanks to the fantastic team! ⭐
29.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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23.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic summary of the proposed ten rules and steps to follow when cleaning occurrence data for palaeobiological analysis. The rules are grouped within their respective theme: project setup (Rules 1–3; blue); data exploration and cleaning (Rules 4–8; red); and reporting and archiving (Rules 9 and 10; green).
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lewisajones.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday
24.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 20 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
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
🎉 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...
24.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
You don't often get to peek behind the curtain, but each played a key role in getting this resource together for the community, including drafting a rule each!
p.s. they're also just a great bunch of people to work with 😉
24.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want to also acknowledge all my fantastic co-authors:
@princessquatris.bsky.social, @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @harriedrage.bsky.social, Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, @willgearty.bsky.social, @macroecoevoale.bsky.social, @erinmdillon.bsky.social, @brunafarina.bsky.social, @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social
24.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We've tried to make this resource as accessible as possible, including offering a narrative example throughout the text. If anything is unclear, please do reach out to myself or any co-author... we want this to be a useful guide (one we wished we had early on in our careers)!
24.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image of a flowchart titled "10 simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology." Major steps include project setup, data exploration and cleaning, and reporting and archiving. Each step is visually linked with icons and text in blue, pink, and green circles. The rules include: (1) choose the right data for your question; (2) keep raw data raw; (3) document your workflow; (4) explore your data; (5) identify and handle incomplete data records; (6) identify and handle outliers; (7) identify and handle inconsistencies; (8) identify and handle duplicates; (9) report your data and cleaning efforts; and (10) Deposit your data and workflow.
We provide guidance on cleaning fossil occurrence data in preparation for palaeobiological analyses, covering project setup, data exploration and cleaning, and finalising and reporting work. To accompany the article, we've made available a vignette, with worked examples:
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
24.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL
22.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
‘Uglies’ deserve data too! #LivingData2025
23.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
There is a Colombian IRN-BRU!?
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21.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And it begins! 😁 #LivingData2025
21.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
En route to #LivingData2025!
Looking forward to connecting with the community, diving into the latest on biodiversity data standards, and exploring how we can better bridge palaeontological, historical, and modern biodiversity data! 🌍🪸📈
18.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.
Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐
Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀
Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au
#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏
15.10.2025 04:12 — 👍 80 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 2
Less than one month to go! Don't forget to register! 🪸
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15.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The next lecture will officially be the 20th! 🎉
Don't miss out on the amazing line up for the upcoming #palaeoverse lecture series 📆
Huge thanks to all past and future presenters, none of this would be possible without your contributions 🙏
Past lectures: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove...
02.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What a terrific event! The organisers did a great job 😁
And oh look, it's me! 🫣
01.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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)”
🚨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-...
29.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Lectures
Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪
26.09.2025 14:32 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The shade! 🤣
22.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss this out! 🪸
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22.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All things corals and reefs! Don't miss out on this fantastic Early Career Researcher event hosted by the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social
#coral #reef #palaeontology
19.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's so great to see this package (on CRAN since 2021) finally formally described in a journal! Here's to many more years of standardized, customizable, and reproducible geology data visualization!
And shout out to @richardstockey.bsky.social and @lewisajones.bsky.social for years of encouragement!
06.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
Natalie brings a very venomous golf ball with legs | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep9
Love venom? Check out NOXIOUS m.youtube.com/watch?v=6C67... And @joshlukedavis.com cheats with three specimens!
14.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3
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
🚨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-...
21.08.2025 09:44 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Biology
🇨🇭Department of Paleontology, University of Zurich
🦈 Studying extinction mechanisms in sharks
🌶️ Pimiento research group
marine biologist, boomer not doomer, solutionista, 💗Maine💗
Member Natl. Acad. Sci., Darwin Medal
#EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries
Author-Citizens of the Sea https://www.amazon.com/Citizens-Sea-Wondrous-Creatures-Census/dp/1426206437
Computational Ecologist. Researcher @unisevilla.bsky.social. ecology, biogeography, statistics, rstats, GIS, science.
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Wikimedian, citizen scientist, digital curator, volunteer, nature nerd, wine geek, partner & mum. She/her. Inordinately fond of linked open data, moths & weevils. Other contact links see my ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-7721
We provide open access to global ocean biodiversity data.
#OBISCommunity
Professor@HKU - Marine paleoecology, macroecology and biodiversity, deep-sea biology, conservation paleobiology, paleontology of Ostracoda, etc.
The Animal History Group (🌐 animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history.
Posts currently by leafyhistory.bsky.social.
Institute of Evolutionary Biology @BiolUW @UniWarszawski. From molecules to bones, we are committed to the study of evolution, phylogenetics, and taxonomy.
PhD student at University College London studying crocodylian brains!
PhD scholar at IISER Pune | Conservation Paleobiology | Marine Ecology | Cricket
A bat specialist ecologist in the UK 🦇. I'm also a botanist, a birder, a gamer, a cat servant, a gardener, a feminist, a nerd, a naturalist, an ADHDer, and a curious human. Host of Across The Ages sweary history podcast. Distracts others.
Paleobiology, trilobites and disco | Postdoc at Stanford University
Climate scientist living in the Sonoran Desert. Analyzer of leaf waxes to learn about past climate change. Professor at the University of Arizona. I also like birds, nature, pets🦉🌿🐕 | Opinions are mine, not those of my employer
Associate Professor - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
I'm interested in marine dispersal and the oceanic forcing of coral reef systems, past, present, and future.
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Dr. rer. nat. in Palaeontology, research fellow at University of Leeds @envleeds.bsky.social, Marine food web dynamics across mass extinctions 🦈, Palaeozoic & Mesozoic gastropods 🐚, Jurassic bivalves 🦪, Permian-Triassic mass extinction 🌋
He/him
Macroevolutionary Palaeobiology Postdoc | Fritz Lab (BinA), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | Fossil Mammals ❤
Curator of Fossil Arthropods at the Natural History Museum, London 🦂
Nature geek and outdoor enthusiast with a passion for angling 🌞🌿
