Dr Alex Dunhill

⚠️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.

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨
For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website:
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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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Well done Ming - a sterling viva performance and a fantastic thesis.

PhDone!!! Passed my viva with minor corrections!

Thanks to @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social and Andrea Manica for supervising, and Prof Rob Fletcher and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social for examining!

The badger might be making a very good point....

Waiting for my flight back to the UK at Oslo airport. Had a great time visiting @lhliow.bsky.social and her group to give @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations lecture. Oslo is so nice!

Fell in love a bit with Oslo today 🇳🇴

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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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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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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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!

send me an invite... it's not far 👍

Off up north to Glasgow this week - come along and listen to me chat about mass extinctions and what happened to life in our oceans millions of years ago!

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...

Southern Ocean carbon pump vulnerability to changing iron supply - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network Using your results, you will be able to test assumptions and make predictions about iron-mediated impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump.

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds, UK with myself, @willhomoky.bsky.social @altagliabue.bsky.social @marmite-usf.bsky.social S.Ussher & A. Milne studying how natural iron fertilisation shapes phytoplankton growth and impacts our climate. Deadline 8th Jan. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/sou...

DeepBio@Leeds @ #PalAss24 in Erlangen The group have just returned from an excellent 68th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Erlangen, Germany, with Baran Karapunar, Amy Shipley, Lydia Woods, Kate Simpson, Euan Malpa…

My group and I had a great time at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting at FAU Erlangen last week... just about recovered now.

Here are the highlights of the conference from a DeepBio@Leeds perspective...

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

Poster on ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction by @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

Poster on extinctions drivers of the Pliocene megafaunal extinction by @sauropodlets.bsky.social et al. #PalAss24

Invited symposium talk by @barankarapunar.bsky.social on community collapse across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction #PalAss24

Poster by Lilian Perez-Sosa et al. on modelling extinction rates in the Phanerozoic on 500 year intervals (presented by @dralexdunhill.bsky.social) #PalAss24

Poster on predicting extinction risk based on palaeogeography through the Phanerozoic by Lila Blake et al. - work completed during Lila's time working with
@eesaupe.bsky.social #PalAss24

...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!

#PalAss24 kicks off in Erlangen today & there is a strong Palaeo@Leeds presence - with many members of the cluster presenting their extinction-focused work. If you're in Erlangen, be sure to check out the following... @thepalass.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Our very own @barankarapunar.bsky.social is kicking off the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction talking about his work on community dynamics across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

Hiya @thepalass.bsky.social meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.