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Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· 21d

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th July 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona from IBIOMAR, CONICET on “Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

A flyer featuring a photograph of Pablo Milla Carmona advertising his talk entitled "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'", which will take place on Thursday 30th July at 15:00 UTC.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jul 13

💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org

Our new website is live now! Visit: https://palaeoverse.org/.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jul 9

The rphylopic package allows users to add silhouettes of organisms from the PhyloPic database to plots generated in base R and ggplot2.

rphylopic 1.7.0 out now! Highlights include local caching of phylopics, and the use of phylopics in igraph and ggraph network plots.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jun 19

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th June 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Corinne Myers from the University of New Mexico on “PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth”. 💻🌍 sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A poster showing Dr Corinne Myers advertising her talk entitled PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jun 18

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳 We are looking forward to hearing from Corinne Myers, Pablo Milla Carmona, @brpetrucci.bsky.social, and Emilia Jarochowska! Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Palaeoverse Lecture Series

Last Thursday of every month at 15:00 UTC

June 25th – Dr Cori Myers, University of New Mexico
PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth

July 30th – Dr Pablo Milla Carmona, University of Bristol
Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'

Aug 27th – Bruno do Rosario Petrucci, Iowa State University
Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy

Sept 24th – Dr Emilia Jarochowska, Utrecht University
CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jun 11

palaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.

palaeoverse 1.5.0 out now! Highlights include: New tax_certainty() function, Grouping support in tax_range_time()/strat(), axis_geo() gains title & autofitting, Lots of under-the-hood improvements.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· May 18

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th May 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Alex Howard from Natural History Museum, London, on “Combining palaeontological, neontological, & spatial data to understand evolution through time and space using the ppgm R package”. bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A poster showing Dr Alex Howard advertising her upcoming talk: Combining palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space using the ppgm R package

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· May 5

Last week, several of our team got together @ucl.ac.uk to map out some exciting new ideas and plans to support the palaeontological community. We’ve got a lot in the works thanks to @softwaresaved.bsky.social’s Research Software Maintenance Fund. Stay tuned over the next few months to find out more.

Palaeoverse core team members photographed on the UCL campus

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Apr 20

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th April 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland @joeflansan.bsky.social from University of Birmingham, on “Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package” 💻 bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Mar 19

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th March 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Brooke Long-Fox @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social from Phoenix Bioinformatics, on “Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank” 💻 bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Feb 20

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Feb 17

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳 We are looking forward to hearing from @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social, Joseph Flannery-Sutherland and @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social! Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer describing the next four talks in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, which take place on the last Thursday of every month at 3pm UTC.

February 26th: Dr Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, London
Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them

March 26th: Dr Brooke Long-Fox, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank

April 30th: Dr Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, University of Birmingham
Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package

May 28th: Dr Alexandra Howard, Texas A&M University
Using palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jan 22

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th January 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our first lecture of 2026, given by Dr Johannes De Groeve from University of Amsterdam, on “Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)” 🏔️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer advertising the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon of a sloping landscape, featuring a river and trees, overlying a grid system suggesting how it might be modelled. There is also a black and white picture of Dr De Groeve, with spiky hair and wearing a black t-shirt.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Dec 11

🚨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-...

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@palaeoverse· Nov 13

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️20th November 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Carrie Tyler from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 🎣 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a yellow cartoon trilobite following a trail of small cubes. There is also a picture of Dr Tyler, wearing a teal and black scarf and smiling into the camera.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Oct 24

🎉 This #FossilFriday we’re happy to share our new paper! 🎉 We take readers through 10 key steps for cleaning palaeontological data ready for computational analyses 🦕🧽 There’s also an R vignette showing you how to put these steps into practice! 💻 Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/pala...

A schematic showing “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data im palaeobiology”, each illustrated with a cartoon and arranged around three key processes, in circles.
The first stage is Project setup. Here we have:
1. Choose the right data for your question, with a cartoon of an arrow in a bullseye
2. Keep raw data raw, with a cartoon of a hand next to a small ‘no entry’ sign
3. Document your workflow, next to a cartoon of two stacked papers with writing on
The second stage is Data exploration & cleaning, which can be performed iteratively:
4. Explore your data, with a cartoon of a magnifying glass over a normal distribution
5. Identify and handle incomplete data records, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, all filled except the one in the bottom right, which is outlined
6. Identify and handle outliers, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, where the one in the bottom right is larger and extends beyond the others
7. Identify and handle inconsistencies, with a cartoon showing three squares in a larger square, with the bottom right quadrant instead featuring a triangle
8. Identify and handle duplicates, with a cartoon showing an opaque square stacked over a transparent (edge only) square
The final stage is Reporting and archiving:
9. Report your data and cleaning efforts, with a cartoon of a loudspeaker
10. Deposit your data and workflow, with a cartoon of a safe

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Oct 24

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon landscape with a river and trees, overlying a grid showing how the system might be simulated across space. There is also a picture of Dr Oskar Hagen, wearing a white shirt and navy suit jacket, smiling into the camera.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Sep 29

🚨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-...

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@palaeoverse· Sep 19

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a yellow cartoon trilobite, and pictures of Drs. Mongiardino Koch and Garwood. Mongiardino Koch wears a grey t-shirt and glasses, while Garwood wears a white shirt and is holding a glass trophy.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Aug 21

🚨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-...

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jul 28

If you are attending @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social and would like to hear more about the palaeoverse R package, come and speak to us at our poster today! We got the coolest spot in the museum 😎🦕

A poster describing the palaeoverse R package beneath a Diplodocus skeleton

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jul 28

Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩

William Gearty presents some advanced topics when using GitHub

Lewis Jones discusses different approaches for dealing with missing data

Harriet Drage feeds back suggestions from the group, written on post-its, on the opportunities and difficulties of archiving data and code

A group picture of the workshop leaders and participants in front of a fresco at the University of Zurich

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jun 18

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jun 4

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀 Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

A flyer for the Palaeoverse Lecture Series for Summer 2025
June 26th - Dr Katie Collins, Natural History Museum
“Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different”
July 31st - Summer break
August 28th - Amy Shipley, University of Leeds
“Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction”
September 25th - Dr Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, UC San Diego and Dr Russell Garwood, University of Manchester
“The Tree of Life and Death: What do fossil taxa contribute to morphological phylogenetics?”

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· May 23

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next lecture in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon laptop with a picture of Dr Hsiang smiling, wearing glasses with a checked top and white collar

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Apr 15

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the Palaeoverse lecture series, featuring a cartoon geology toolkit and a photo of Dr Stockey in a brown hat and dark fleece

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Mar 21

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th March 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Next week we will hear from Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, on “FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse Lecture series, featuring a picture of Dr Ondřej Mottl, wearing a checked shirt and smiling into the camera

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Feb 21

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th February, 16:00 UTC Next week we are looking forward to hosting Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, who will give a talk on “DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models” Don’t miss it! Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer showing the time, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. The flyer also includes a picture of Dr Xia Wang, dressed in a dark hoodie and holding a camera.

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Feb 7

We’d like to announce the Spring 2025 line-up of the 🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 Don’t miss these four excellent speakers! Register for a Zoom link here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

Flyer outlining the upcoming talks of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series.
February 27th, Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, will present ‘DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models’
March 27th, Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, will present ‘FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis’
April 24th, Dr Richard Stockey from University of Southampton, will present ‘Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models’
May 29th, Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, will present ‘Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning’

Palaeoverse@palaeoverse· Jan 17

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th January, 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST) For this month’s lecture, we will be joined by Dr Ádám Kocsis, presenting “The ‘rgplates’ interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects” Register here: t.co/nkPis8u8JK