Harriet B. Drage

Please consider applying when live for our two roles at UCL, UK! Join an excellent, diverse and friendly team to drive forwards open science and learn lots of new skills!

Ah I hope you guys had a great time, and I'm sure your talks were awesome! I hope to see the research some time :D

A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse lecture series. The flyer features a cartoon of a graph, illustrating orange fluctuating lines, varying across time bins. There is also a photo of Dr Cantalapiedra, who sits cross-legged on the floor, in a blue-grey T-shirt, brown trousers and black trainers. He sits next to a large animal bone.

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️18th December 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week for our last talk of 2025, given by @singerstone.bsky.social from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, on “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 🦬

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

🌟Continuing our Friday (afternoon) 🌟
Registration
🕐 13:00 – 18:00
📍 Portland Building

Symposium: Experimental Palaeontology
🕒 13:30 – 17:15
📍 Portland Building, PO 1.74

Icebreaker Reception
🕠 17:30 – 19:30
📍 Portland Building Atrium & Richmond Building Atrium

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth

Consider applying for the PhD project, if you're in the market, with two extremely great researchers and managers! I know it'll be fascinating and teach loads of useful skills!

🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️

palass.org/annual-meeti...
#conference #PalAss25 #uk

📣 Hey PalAss participants!
The 2025 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth is getting closer 🦕📍

Just a quick reminder:
If you’re tagging us on social media, don’t forget to use our official hashtag #PalAss25 🙌✨

Happy #FossilFriday! 🐚🦴

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship!

Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@thepalass.bsky.social

🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers!

Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience.

🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn:
✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]

Advert for Open Palaeontology Steering Committee Member

Advert for Open Palaeontology Managing Editor

Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider joining us on our mission to promote community open-access publishing in palaeontology.

🎉 A few facts and figures about this year’s conference!
We’re excited to welcome 275 delegates from every continent (except Antarctica 🐧).
✨ Here’s what awaits you:
📣 1 Annual Address
🧪 1 ECR Workshop & Social
🥂 1 Icebreaker Reception
🚌 1 Post-Conference Field Trip [1/2]

Please get in touch if you're interested or have any questions! contact@openpalaeo.org
@evopalaeo.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @euphanerops.bsky.social @lewisajones.bsky.social @princessquatris.bsky.social @willgearty.bsky.social @manonhullot.bsky.social

Logo banner for the journal Open Palaeontology; logo of OPal on a fossil background

Looks great on academic or publishing CVs, meaningfully contributes to open science, allows gain of key management skills, and join a like-minded team of ~20 scientists at varying career-stages to support your career progression! We even gained a competitive grant to develop the journal in 2026 🌟

Open Palaeontology is a community-run, diamond open-access journal trying to reshape non-profit academic publishing in palaeontology. You can shape the journal's direction and gain skills in journal/people management & editing! Suitable for early-career, support given. Spread the word far and wide!

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Managing Editor job advert

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Steering Committee job advert

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word!
openpalaeo.org
@openpalaeo.bsky.social

Save Geology at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

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! ⭐

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST!

Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding.

Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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-...

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic.
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉
🔗 Registration link ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

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-...

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬

IUCN Red List Client IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!!

- wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️
- wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍
- filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏

Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind...

#rstats #iucn #redlist #api

A drawing reconstruction of Arthropleura, an extinct millipede-like animal

The authors present the fossil record of this enigmatic animal, compare this to new material, and discuss evidence for a terrestrial lifestyle. The most complete fossils suggest this animal could be up to 50cm long!

#openscience #palaeontology #fossils
@openpalaeo.bsky.social