Palaeo@Leeds

⚠️Don't forget to join us today -  Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

Palaeo@Leeds ECRs are awesome!

Well done to the brilliant Leeds postdocs!

Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts!

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If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊
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Off to Oslo for my next @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology lecture 🇸🇯

Last week, Palaeo@Leeds PHR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her NERC funded research on the recovery of marine ecosystems following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction to the Leeds Geologists Association.

Got a spare evening on March 20th? Come and see Palaeo@Leeds PGR @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social talk about her research on "Ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction" with the Leeds Geological Society at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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Huge congratulations to our very Prof Ben Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social for becoming the UK Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering on the receipt of a highly prestigious Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

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How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.

Palaeo@Leeds PGR @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writes about polytemporalism and her PhD project on how poetry can help us understand mass extinction events for the @uk.theconversation.com

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Schematic of plate tectonics showing different plate boundaries and the CO2 emissions from each type, reconstructed over 400 million years. Lower panel showing geogrpahic potisions of reactive continental lithologies over the same timeframe.

Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps.

See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Professor Benjamin Mills is one of the finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the UK! 👏

He's nominated for his accomplishments in Earth System Modelling, through which he's developed our understanding of Earth's evolution.

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On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social!

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Sile Sibanda - 21/02/2025 - BBC Sounds Conversation and music for our African and Caribbean communities with Sile Sibanda.

Have a listen to Palaeo@Leeds postgrad @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social and Leeds-based palaeoartist James McKay talking about James' new book "Yorkshire's Amazing Dinosaurs" on local BBC Radio.

12 mins in...

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Variations in antimony isotope and toxic metals across the Guadalupian-Lopingian (Permian) boundary at Penglaitan, China: Implications for the Emeishan volcanism and marine extinction The Guadalupian-Lopingian (G-L) extinction event during the Permian stands a major diversity decline. The Emeishan Large Igneous Province (ELIP) has l…

Paul Wignall and co. on "Variations in antimony isotope and toxic metals across the Guadalupian-Lopingian
(Permian) boundary at Penglaitan, China: Implications for the Emeishan volcanism and
marine extinction" in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

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

Co-application of rhenium, vanadium, uranium and molybdenum as paleo-redox proxies: Insight from modern and ancient environments Numerous approaches have been developed for determining past redox conditions in marine settings (e.g., Fe speciation, redox sensitive trace metal (RS…

Sen Li, Paul Wignall & Simon Poulton on "Co-application of rhenium, vanadium, uranium and molybdenum as paleo-redox proxies: Insight from modern and ancient environments" in Chemical Geology.

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Simon Poulton and co. on "Cadmium isotope constraints on primary productivity and environmental perturbations
across the Late Ordovician mass extinction" in GSA Bulletin.

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Preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments sustained by sorption and transformation processes - Nature Geoscience Kinetic sorption and transformation are primary controls on organic carbon preservation in marine sediments, according to reactive transport model simulations of the cycling and breakdown of particula...

Payman Babakhani, Oliver Moore, Lisa Curti & Caroline Peacock and co. on "Preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments sustained by sorption and
transformation processes" in Nature Geoscience.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Natural sampling and aliasing of marine geochemical signals - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Natural sampling and aliasing of marine geochemical signals

Fred Bowyer and co. on "Natural sampling and aliasing of marine geochemical signals" in Scientific Reports.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cris Little and co. on "The genome sequence of a mollusc, Azorinus chamasolen (da Costa, 1778)" in Wellcome Open Research.

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Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco): A review of biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition represents a pivotal geological marker, denoting the decline of the Ediacaran biota and the emergence of most modern…

Fred Bowyer and co. on "Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco): A review of
biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology" in Earth Science Reviews.

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

Calcium isotopes support spatial redox gradients on the Tethys European margin across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary The end-Triassic mass extinction was among the most severe biotic crises of the Phanerozoic. It has been linked with the global expansion of marine an…

Paul Wignall and co on "Calcium isotopes support spatial redox gradients on the Tethys European margin across
the Triassic-Jurassic boundary" in Chemical Geology.

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Palaeo@Leeds researchers have been busy in the first month of 2025... check out our latest set of publications ranging from mass extinctions, biostratigraphy and geochronology, molluscan genomics, and marine geochemistry 🌋🪨☄️🌍⛏️🧬🦪⌛🌊🧪

Low effort copy-paste advert for EGU session 4.23: Deoxygenation events. literally copy pasted from the EGU website and marked up in MS paint.

Excited to be speaking about marine deoxygenation in the past and future at EGU 2025. Please consider also submitting to the session!

Had a great evening, speaking to @geologyglasgow.bsky.social about modelling fossil food webs across mass extinction and recovery for the @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology series. A really interesting group, full of questions and interesting stories. Thanks for having me folks!

Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction | Geological Society of Glasgow Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds

Our next lecture is on Thursday 6th February at 7pm in Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow. Dr Alex Dunhill will talk on "Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction" geologyglasgow.org.uk/.../species-...
All welcome.

We hosted the 1st CPEG back in 2018 in Leeds -- it's a brilliant conference. Anyone working on, or generally interested, in the interface between past and present ecology should register!

Our Exceptional Lecturer @dralexdunhill.bsky.social will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC in Oxford at PalaeoClub @ox.ac.uk. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/events or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities   Professor Crispin Little, Professor Fiona Gill, Dr Stephen Hunter (all School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds); Dr Steffen Kiel (Department of ...

Interested in marine palaeoecology? Looking for a funded PhD? Then apply to come to Leeds to study Arctic Mesozoic methane seep communities

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Congrats to @sauropodlets.bsky.social for winning the @thepalass.bsky.social poster prize!! #PalAss24