DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals

Missed @mustafayk.bsky.social interview? Here it is:
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The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Paratethys: boreal water ingression and its paleoceanographic implications Abstract. The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT) represents a pivotal period in Earth's climatic history, marked by the onset of Antarctic glaciation and global cooling. While deep-sea records have ext...

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After @mustafayk.bsky.social interview, check his sedimentary work of the Karaburun section (NWTurkey) showing that global cooling & Antarctic glaciation triggered boreal water influxes & regional hydrological shifts, offering new insights into the Paratethys response to global cooling at the EOT

YouTube video by CEREGE The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #2Interview KAYA

New interview out! 🌍
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@mustafayk.bsky.social shares his journey as a sedimentologist and geochemist in the ERC Dispersal project — from analyzing paleomagnetic sample collections in Kazakhstan to what excites him most about his research and the challenges of postdoc life.

Pauline Coster and @alexislicht.bsky.social presenting their results on the Eocene paleontological record of Kazakhstan today at the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty.

Hard working day at the Satpaev institute of Geology in Almaty, sorting through the Paleogene paleontological collections with Pauline Coster and Saida Nigmatova!

Visiting the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty for a week, to work with our @dispersal-erc.bsky.social collaborators. And enjoying a tea with one of the last living vertebrate paleontologists in Kazakhstan, Bolat Baishashov!

YouTube video by CEREGE The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #1

In case you missed Leny’s interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzU...

Big shout-out to Leny Montheil!
His first ERC Dispersal interview is now live and comes with a brand-new paper on how Asian mammals crossed shifting continents during the Eocene (-80 to -40 Ma) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Watch continents move 🌍

The first PhD paper of @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, part of our project, documenting the middle Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia!

The first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia".
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This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social
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YouTube video by CEREGE The People Behind the ERC Dispersal project | Scientist Interview #1

🎙️ Our first interview is out!
Meet Leny Montheil, geodynamicist and paleogeography specialist, as he takes us back to the Eocene to explore how primates dispersed across a changing world.
▶️ Watch it now on YouTube
youtu.be/bjzU_UIXseU

He finds at least two episodes of extreme aridity during the late Eocene before the Eocene-Oligocene transition, which could have significantly impacted the endemic fauna of Balkanatolia.
It's the first paper providing clumped isotopic results from our isotopic line built at @cerege.bsky.social!

A new preprint from our research group is online!
In this paper, Paul Botté, PhD student in the project at @climatecerege.bsky.social, studied the evolution of continental environmental through the late Eocene and earliest Oligocene in central Anatolia.

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YouTube video by CEREGE 🐒🌊 Crossing oceans without boats: the mysterious overwater dispersals of ancient mammals

How did mammals cross oceans millions of years ago?

Our first video introducing the ERC-funded DISPERSAL project is live on YouTube 🎉

👇 Check it out!
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🎙️ First episode of a series of interviews with the scientists involved. Stay tuned — more interviews coming soon!

Want to learn more about how primates and rodents could have reach South America in the distant past? A new paper led by our team!

🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n)
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Paul Botté from @climatecerege.bsky.social and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social from @cr2p.bsky.social presenting their work on #balkanatolia paleoenvironments today at the yearly conference of Turkish Earth scientists in Yozgat. Back to fieldwork tomorrow!

Featuring the work of our team!

Looking for pollen, vertebrate fossils and pedogenic carbonates in Anatolia! With @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, Paul Botté, @dispersal-erc.bsky.social

First day of the third field trip to Turkey for Paul Botté and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social. One week to collect their last samples before their ultimate task: writing their dissertation!

YouTube video by Pal(a)eoPERCS Bram Vaes - Mapping the past: Towards Quantitative Paleogeographic Reconstructions

The team welcomes a new member, Bram Vaes, who will be working on modeling overwater dispersal using new paleogeographies and climate modeling tools! To learn more about the past work of Bram, a short video of him here:
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Élodie Gazquez interviewing our colleague Saïda Nigmatova in the field today in the Luberon. We're planning to release soon a bunch of videos explaining everything about our research project!

@benjaminraynaud.bsky.social presenting his PhD results at @cerege.bsky.social today ! Benjamin works on the evolution of ecosystems during the dispersal events we investigate in the project via pollen analysis.

Welcoming Saïda Nigmatova and Ilnura Madiyarova from the Satpaiev Geological institute of Almaty! Several weeks at @cerege.bsky.social to work together on central Asian paleoclimate and biogeography

A new paper by our collaborator @mustafayk.bsky.social !

A new paper funded by our project, focusing on Asian paleogeography!
It explores the different scenarios for the India-Asia collision, which is particularly important to understand Africa-Eurasia dispersal pathways.

A short highlight on some of our paleontologist & field collaborators in Turkey!
From right to left: K.Chris Beard, Faruk Oçakoglu, Grégoire Métais, and @mustafayk.bsky.social
Shot in an Eocene coal mine full of endemic fossils from #Balkanatolia. Many discoveries to come soon from this site.

Interested in joining our team to study past mammalian dispersals? We just opened a new postdoctoral position in climate modeling to work with me and Yannick Donnadieu at @climatecerege.bsky.social. All the info here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Application deadline on July 23.

Check the social media account of our ERC project @dispersal-erc.bsky.social focusing on past mammalian dispersals! Multiple news to come, including neat videos and field updates.