Dr. Danijela Dimitrijević

Dive into the mysteries Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems hold! Join @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social as she talks about MCEs including the tools being used to study them in the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean.

When: 5 Aug 1pm-2pm BST

Sign up for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mesophotic...

#Webinar 🦑

BioDeeptime has made it into Science! "Climate is changing fast—and forests are 200 years behind". A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and modern data reveals this dramatic lag—and its consequences."(from ScienceDaily) - article: DOI: 10.1126/science.adr6700 CONGRATULATIONS to the authors.

Already announcing so you get to gather some ideas for your own workshop! Read more: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit in our research group, which focuses on Global Change Paleobiology. We seek a candidate with a strong background in palaeobiology aiming for an academic career in Paleontology. Interested!? www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...

Image description: Two hikers looking at a mountain view with text reading :"GU’s 2025 Tertiary Education Geoscience Teaching Materials award, is open now, apply now by 10 July 2025!"

Are you #geoscience #teacher in higher education? Apply for EGU 2025 teaching Grant and get up to €750 for your teaching #materials.
Submission can cover any geoscience topic, including laboratory or fieldwork.
📆 Application deadline: 10 July 2025
🔗 egu.eu/8M1N74
📷: Angel Ling on imaggeo.egu.eu

🦕🐚"Prediction and Identification of Mass Extinctions" workshop has ended after many fruitful discussions. ⚒️🦤Watch this space for the outcome 😎
www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...

@bethanyjallen.bsky.social
@danijeladim.bsky.social
@thefairestfowl.bsky.social

After a week of hard work and discussions the PRIME workshops ends today in the late afternoon. Fruitful discussions and breakout groups made good progress and we are looking forward to the outcomes to be published.

Let's go! Today marks the start of the 5-day PRIME (www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/pr...) workshop led by Bethany Allen (Potsdam) and Baran Karapunar (Leeds). .... let's discuss mass extinction!

A fantastic and productive week creating new resources for the next generation of experimental taphonomists! Thanks to @orlabe.bsky.social for driving this forward with me and @paleosynth.bsky.social for hosting us!

Last day of the IRATE workshop in Erlangen. See the happy faces! Looks like everybody had a good time and hopefully fruitful discussions... can't wait to see the outcomes published ^^ (no pressure at all ;))

A nice little reminder of our proposal call for workshops! You have until May 18th... have a look here: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/in...

⚠️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:
www.palass.org/meetings-eve...

#conference #student #uk

Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The age of digitally accessible datasets has transformed palaeontology, enabling previously impossible macroevolutionary insights. However, a substantial reservoir of generally inaccessible ‘dark data...

Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We are opening the first call in 2025 for workshop proposals! This time - we extended - and you have three months to submit your idea. Further information is provided here: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/in...

Journal "Oikos" presents new article which shows crucial importance of the lost megafauna in ecosystem functioning.

The role of dissapeared megafauna in shaping ecology

Or:
"Ecologists discover palaeontology (and historicity of biology) 200 years after Cuvier"

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Remember my words: this is just a tip of the iceberg of rebuilding of the ecological theory through its integration with palaeontology
🧪 #Macroecology

Reconstruction of the spatial and temporal arrangement of the microfacies and fossil communities found at two of the three outcrops. Image created in collaboration with Tanner Strachan.

🚨Publication alert!🚨

Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.

We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.

Over 2.5 billion years ago, trillions of tiny Cyanobacteria spent hundreds of millions of years creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth.

Take a deep breath. How are you using your oxygen today? Be present. Give freely. Care for others. Make your ancient microbial cousins proud. Exhale. Repeat.

Harsh criticism and unreasonable expectations worsen PhD students’ mental health Research and teaching pressures can exacerbate anxiety and depression, causing many young scientists to consider quitting, a survey finds.

More emotional support and positive feedback

"Harsh criticism and unreasonable expectations worsen PhD students’ mental health"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This one took some years in the making! Here, the closeness of a #jurassic species' temperature preference to its environmental temperature (=thermal bias) was a useful predictor of whether it moved in, remained, or moved out of a region, or went #extinct during #climatechange... rdcu.be/d8IfN

Superb post-doc opportunity 👇Read the thread and get your applications in!

Only two weeks until the Summer School application deadline and right after that our workshop call! Check back to make sure you don't miss it. www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt Coral reefs provide habitat for approximately 25% of all extant marine species, including 845 species of scleractinian corals. These rich ecosystems are becoming increasingly degraded in many regions ...

🚨NEW PAPER!🚨

We have a new paper out in @bdj.pensoft.net on "Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt" with Theres Koch, Angelina Ivkić, et al doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

As science does not have a place in the X world, we will soon be leaving. We hope to meet you here and on our other social media: FB (paleosynthesis) and Insta (paleosynthesisproject) and - fingers crossed that it works well - also on our newly created WhatsApp channel: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...!

These are fantastic small grants for Early Career Researchers working on Antarctic Science projects. Supervisors - please point your students towards them. A huge range of projects and people have been funded over the years.

📢 Do not miss the opportunity to attend this awesome conference connecting palaeontologists , ecologistst, conservation palaeobiologists, in short, all the cool people. Abstract and early bird registration deadlines are approaching so don’t hesitate for too long!

🗣️ 83% of respondents believe scientists should communicate about science with the public.

📣 52% believe scientists should be more involved in policymaking.

Research Areas 2025 (Call 2) - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science Note that several of the research themes are interdisciplinary. We encourage candidates to look through all research areas and themes so they do not miss an opportunity if a topic is classified under ...

General call for postdocs with diverse interests: write your own proposal and find your host/supervision team in Oslo! www.uio.no/dscience/eng... I am on two of them (one in Geoscience and the other in Bioscience)

One more month! Apply for a place at the Analytical Paleobiology Summer School. Financial support is possible: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

oops! シ not so brilliant after all...since some colleagues thought the calendar pages were bibles, we'll use the stratigraphic colors to match the mass extinction... so here is the improved version of the icon hopefully now without misunderstandings

Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations Abstract. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of different groups of organisms provides insight into how life originated and diversified on Earth. Phyl

So excited to see this paper finally published! 🥳 This was the main focus of my PhD and demonstrates the application of model adequacy for models of morphological evolution. 1/n
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...